Oscar night is anxiety central: TV needs the stars to light up the ratings, and the stars, for their part, use TV to stage what is, in essence, a communal bath of self-love.
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American musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of Yiddish theater, whose jolly, fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of Broadway.
"Many are coming to us with ideas of stigma regarding mental health, but culturally there might be the idea of the extended family or the communal support that is at the essence of healing," said Smith.
It has taken over not merely communal aspects of society, but the very essence of what it means to be human.
Philia is, in essence, a powerful force for good and the communal egg-yolk that has bound together the awkward soufflé of human progress.
It is the very essence of that most Soviet of Russian institutions, the communal flat: a place so crammed with people and so devoid of privacy that not having a bathtub can be considered an advantage.
Anniversaries are, in their essence, a point on a timeline meant to acknowledge and consider a communal milestone.
In essence, these external changes result in our own internal change, and are the catalysts for personal and communal growth.
One perspective on the influence of the communal environment is plotted in Figure 4. Herrnstein and Murray argued in The Bell Curve 1994 that IQ, in essence, determines one's status in society.
