In essence, the critics say that the authors will be doing much of the same heavy hauling they did when they were self-published.
In essence, his critics were calling on the pope to evaluate the church's past by a set of modern principles -- whether secular or religious -- that are foreign to the church itself, at least as seen by John Paul II. John Paul II remains a theological conservative, as his stands on female clergy, clerical celibacy and homosexuality have shown.
The essence of criticism is disproportion: a director or a novelist may spend years on a film or a book, and the critic dispatches it in a few hours or a few days.
The essence of criticism is imaginative sympathy the recognition of the experience that goes into the making of an artwork, and that the critic is able to extract from it and transmit to readers.
It is the essence of what the critic Greil Marcus, musing on Bob Dylan and the Band's "Basement Tapes," called the "old, weird America".
De Mistura's critics argue, in essence, that he has done even worse at his impossible job than he should have – a difficult accusation to judge.
In the commission's meeting today, Ms. Helmer delivered a harshly worded broadside against those critics, saying, in essence, that having gotten more conservation spending, they should drop their objections to new power plants.
The French theologian Alfred Loisy (1857 1940), from a Roman Catholic point of view but taking into account the work of Protestant biblical critics, found the essence of Christianity in the faith of the developed church, which could not be found simply by trying to discover the nature of the historical Jesus.
"Essence" received mostly positive reviews from critics.
