Sentence examples for attack on the essence from inspiring English sources
L'Atalante (1934), a masterpiece, directed a slashing attack on the essence of the French bourgeoisie and had to be drastically edited by its producers who feared criticism from the public.
We cannot let yesterday's attack, an assault on the essence of the human spirit, create within us fragmentation and destruction.
"It behooves the Sephardi party's leaders to understand that the facile canonization of a criminal is, in essence, an insufferable attack on the rule of law".
September 11 was an attack on democracy, on trade, on tolerance and multiculturalism, and on the essence of modern civilisation.
"He picks up very quickly on the essence of power.
focus on the essence of it all: their drawing technique.
Read more on the essence of resilience.
Human beings function on the essence of those two emotions.
At a congressional hearing on the mistakes made up to and during the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary famously asked, "What difference does it make?" That sentence captures the essence of her bearing and mien.
In a private discussion, Allen and Arnold reached an accommodation, the essence of which was that Arnold and Allen would both be at the front of the troops when the attack on the fort was made.
Kevin O'Regan and Alva Noë's rejection of the binding problem 'as, in essence, a pseudo-problem' (O'Regan and Noë, 2001, 967) comes as part of their general attack on the idea that perception requires the representation of the thing perceived.
