Television is notoriously bad at capturing the essence of great footballers.
James was openly gay from his late teens, she notes, and for the friends in his clique — Beaton among them — beautiful manners and bad behavior were the essence of chic.
"The gift is the essence of bad philanthropy — an overblown act of generosity that undermines its own possible efficacy," the editor and poet Meghan O'Rourke wrote in the online magazine Slate.
James was openly gay from his late teens, she notes, and for the friends in his clique Beaton among them beautiful manners and bad behavior were the essence of chic.
Many say that some online publisher's failure to cite the sources for its listicles is simply an example of bad netiquette, but in essence, it's intellectual property theft in its purest form.
No, instead, let's zero right in on the essence of bad writing, which lies in giving the impression either that the writer is an idiot or that he or she has in mind a reader who is one.
[Update | The meteorological conditions that shaped events in recent days are nicely explored by Henry Fountain of The Times.] It just means assertions that all weird bad weather is, in essence, our fault are not grounded in science and, as a result, end up empowering those whose prime interest appears to to be sustaining the fossil fuel era as long as possible.
But after allowing for all that, Prof. Eaton says, in essence: too bad!
If you keep believing what's bad, he says in essence, you'll never see what's good.
