Sentence examples for essence the thing from inspiring English sources

And yet, in essence, the thing we find discouraging about ghost world is not its areas of candid dishonesty but that the whole place smells of the American cult of business.

So Dogster has solved that by deciding to become in essence the thing that it always argued startups shouldn't work with: Ad resellers.

The essence or thingness of which Avicenna speaks is not simply the essence of the thing considered as such, regardless of its existence, but the thingness and hence the thing that, considered as such and regardless of its existence, reveals exactly the character or modality that its own existence has.

Artists — the best ones — reinvent themselves by continually digging at the essence of the thing they mean to describe.

What he wanted to do, he says, was to get to the essence of the thing in question.

Recently I looked at those models and drawings, and the essence of the thing was there from the beginning".

"The essence of the thing is decisiveness to the point of death," he says, a finger pressing hard on his temple.

But there is a class of buildings that cannot be altered or expanded without destroying the essence of the thing itself.

Spinoza calls such striving conatus (a Latin term meaning will or appetite), and he argues that this conatus "is nothing but the actual essence of the thing".

NB: In a situation like this, "robot" doesn't adequately capture the essence of the thing.

In other words, if and only if the highest genus of that category is one of the constitutive elements of the essence of the thing at issue.