Sentence examples for common essence from inspiring English sources

(Why this seemingly irresistible urge to pair Nazism with consumer goods, as if they partook of a common essence?

Whether you are discussing religion, nationality, race or culture, people have supposed that an identity that survives through time and space must be propelled by some potent common essence.

One tenet is that all and only the members of a kind have a common essence.

Others (Penner, Woodruff) have argued for a stronger thesis, such that the definitions of all the virtues would have a common essence.

If, then, group members do not share a common essence then they cannot be simply demarcated from non-group members because there will be many cases where individuals are not simply on one side of the boundary or the other.

In this case, species are conceived of as exhibiting a single "type" or a common "essence," with variation among individuals representing anomalous and largely unimportant deviations from the type or essence.

In essence the event conspires to produce the sensation, not common enough in New York jazz circles, of plunging into an enveloping atmosphere.

The thinking that there is a common, unconstructed, essence to mystical experience has worked against the recognition of women's experiences as properly mystical.

Nonetheless, campuses continue to go to court with codes that bear no relationship to the legal definition (nor the common sense essence) of harassment and then seem surprised when these codes are overturned.

This endeavour supplies them with a common enemy in the view of law as ideology, which finds trying to determine the essence of law as fundamentally misconceived.

But for the period I was in office, the two nations worked jointly toward their common goals — the essence of diplomacy.