I want to say my father, because he was in distilling for 28 years before me.
Or: "Enjoy the newly refined Chevalier Brandy, distilled for those who can discern the real brandy taste".
Then the object became something whose uniqueness must be properly distilled for the purposes of an auction house catalogue.
Dafora's "Ostrich" drew from traditional African dance, but it was distilled for the modern-dance stage and offered the opportunity for a male star turn.
Around 60 hours of interviews are being gathered and will be distilled for a production called Enquirer, looking at the "past, present and future" of newspapers.
Whether from a statehouse balcony or an activist's smartphone, scenes that were once edited and distilled for television are increasingly being streamed live to an audience that spreads the news, or at least the pictures, themselves.
Twigs and branches from the many trees fuel the farm's wood-burning stoves, the Douglas firs yield an essential oil distilled for soap-making, and chunks from the oak-trees end up as small beautifully crafted chopping boards.
In a five-minute span of conversation, McAuliffe distilled for me the extent of his psychological complexity: 1) He pinches himself all the time because he's so lucky.
Sci-fi and fantasy fictions might try to persuade us otherwise, but memories are not discrete entities that can be taken out of one person's head, Dumbledore-style, and distilled for someone else's viewing.
Studying Watteau's "Two Recruits," a delicate red chalk study of military figures, I was reminded of the virtues of drawing, which offers the most immediate impression of a subject, the artist rapidly distilling for us the essence of an experience, time and place.
