Sentence examples for bare essence from inspiring English sources

"It's a talk show reduced to its bare essence".

Now, as if to unburden himself, he has used great cutting to reduce modern fashion to a bare essence.

At the end of 2010, Obama convened a committee charged with narrowing his Afghan mission to its bare essence and finding a quick passageway to the exits.

Patrik Ervell, meanwhile, continued his exploration of stripped-down uniforms, paring them to their bare essence (aviator, policeman, "Solid Gold" dancer?), but how much further can you go?

The winner, Webb Simpson, wore a long-sleeved shirt underneath a long-sleeved buttoned sweater and played a game stripped to its bare essence: fairways, greens, pars.

The work, which will be performed at Dance Theater Workshop beginning Wednesday, boils down modern dance and traditional Japanese dance to their bare essence.

Low's second album, Long Division, upped the ante, stripping their minimalist sound to its barest essence and creating an album steeped in desolation.

In the degenerative violence of the last 10 days, the conflict that had been so elaborately dressed in the civilizing cloak of a peace effort has been stripped to its barest essence: Jew against Arab, Arab against Jew.

Like Wyndham Lewis, Pound reacted against decorative flourishes found in Edwardian writing, saying poetry required a precise and economic use of language and that the poet should always use the "exact" word, stripping the writing down to the "barest essence".

Just a sped-up vocal, stabbing melody and a little electronic background gauze, this is pop distilled down to its barest essences.

Like outrageously attired alchemists, they distil rock'n'roll down to its barest essences – thud, snarl, wooh! – and turn it into something precious again.