Sentence examples for closer to the essence from inspiring English sources
The phrase "closer to the essence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing concepts, ideas, or experiences that aim to capture the fundamental nature or core qualities of something.
Example: "In our discussion about art, we strive to get closer to the essence of what it means to be human."
Alternatives: "nearer to the core" or "approaching the fundamental nature".
That comes closer to the essence.
Is it just their unique sounds that interest you, or are you after something deeper? A. I always felt folk musicians are much closer to the essence of music than musicians who are classically trained in the West.
In this sense, synesthesia may be "closer to the essence of what it is to perceive," Dr. Cytowic has said, and may be tied to phylogenetically older, subcortical brain structures involved in emotion and other primal functions.
Over the years, I've sat through an awful lot of documentaries about Andy Warhol, and none of them has ever got closer to the essence of his art than Five's Warhol On Warhol.
"I've thought so much lately about what erosion means – how the same geologic principles that erode stone also erode us closer to the essence of who we want to become," she said.
Which is why comics, or comic actors, or character comics – or whatever you wanna call them – often, for me, get closer to the essence of theatre than theatre (not that I see any hierarchy or even anything except a perceived distinction).
After all the fuss, The Washington Post eventually conceded that "Bachtel's medical tragedy began with circumstances very close to the essence" of Mrs. Clinton's account.
At a time in France that saw "the death of the author", Truffaut affirmed that, in great art, we are brought close to the essence of an individual human being.
With its final image, of the sky taking on "tender, joyous, ardent hues for which human speech hardly has a name", Gusev brings us close to the essence of Chekhov; the underlying state of mind that produces the two basic moods of his work – wonder and horror.
Schumer thus sticks close to the essence of the report, when he says the pipeline would create "several thousand temporary construction jobs," though he lards it on a bit by adding "only 35 permanent jobs". That number is in the report, but how many construction projects result in very many permanent jobs?
Beneficence in these writers is close to the essence of morality.
