The shrine provided a snapshot of the essence of contemporary Polish Catholic culture.
Mr. Meade is describing the essence of contemporary academicism, and while he puts a positive spin on this, it could be read as a devastating critique.
But where Manual grazes indiscriminately, she layers her sources together into a highly polished, thoroughly fused distillation that is the essence of contemporary tics and ploys.
This ballet, featuring three American sailors on shore leave in New York City during World War II, displayed Robbins' acute sense of theatre and his ability to capture the essence of contemporary American dance using the vocabulary of classical ballet.
Lange's most famous book, The History of Materialism and the Critique of its Contemporary Significance, is in essence a defense of such a return to Kant.
It becomes, in essence, a contemporary Western.
Bob's approach was simple, he took aim at the essence of contemporary ideas of how place cells are constructed.
But Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky captured its straightforward essence as a contemporary show-stopper with their power and expansive performance.
Most designers would kill to capture the essence of the contemporary youthquake, and if Isabel Marant was the one who served as the barometer for French street style in recent years, her fall collection suggests that we are headed toward a darker place.
Martin Wolf, one of the experts who sat on the independent commission on banking, put it bluntly, saying in the Financial Times that "the essence of the contemporary monetary system was the creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending".
