In this sense an accident is anything that is external to the intentio of a res as absolute essence, without ever being really distinct from it.
This judgment on art that its greatness is a thing of the past follows from Hegel's attempt to combine a notion of art's historicity with a conception of its absolute essence.
Led by the great California-born composer/pianist, with Steve Swallow on bass guitar and Andy Sheppard on saxes, they seemed to be playing the absolute essence of a busier and more convoluted jazz, which they had decided to keep to themselves.
According to Phillip Noyce, who directed the oft-bearded actor in three movies and a TV miniseries: "Bill was the absolute essence of the Anglo-Irish Australian male of the 20th century.
"It's the absolute essence of the sea," Steven Jenkins, a partner in Fairway Markets, said of a good anchovy.
Listen to My Heart or Judy Is a Punk boiled rock music down to its absolute essence: they don't sound like songs so much as one long chorus.
Producing a "vision of the future" is "of the absolute essence", Mr Blair adds.
Great acclaim came to the editor who could artfully reduce wire stories to their absolute essence.
Venison, a just-blushing loin cut from a roe shot locally, comes with various treatments of beetroot: pureed, salt-roasted, pickled and teased into the shape of autumn leaves, with sweetness from blackberries, the absolute essence of autumn.
The facts of their lives have been distilled to the absolute essence, yet embellished with well-chosen quotations that establish the emotional currents the couple experienced as the years progressed.
She was, she said, absorbed in the expression of the texture and weight and the tensions between forms, searching for "some absolute essence in sculptural terms giving the quality of human relationships".
