"I never really thought about it, but in essence, when I designed the trash bags, it meant I designed garbage -- that's so funny," she says.
I had occasion to think further on how the pinup-boy approach can work against a performer's basic essence when I attended an April recital at Carnegie Hall by the Norwegian pianist Leif-Ove Andsnes. Leif-Ove Andsnes
I've fallen victim to the sensation that I understand some guy's essence when I've really just read 15 of his tweets".
Since time was of the essence when I ordered it, I specified that I would pick it up at a local Walmart store.
As Aristotle says "by form I mean the essence of each thing, and its primary substance" (1032b1), and "when I speak of substance without matter I mean the essence" (1032b14).
I swirl the feeling around inside myself -- tasting it, savoring it, imprinting it into my heart, storing its essence for a time when I may need to recall the memory of serenity.
When he proposed to some of his fellow CEOs that they meet to discuss possible voluntary action they might take, no one could find the time, a few doubted whether their views would matter, and one said, in essence, "you got yours; when I get mine, let's talk".
(A few weeks ago, when I pulled "The Essence of Truth" down from my bookshelves, I found it as compelling as I had a decade ago).
In "Barton Mumaw, Dancer: From Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and Beyond," the autobiography he wrote with Jane Sherman (Dance Horizons, 1986), he declared that "in essence, my life began in 1927, when I took my first dancing lesson in Eustis, Fla., and ended in 1972, when Ted Shawn died there".
In the film, Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper's character famously captures this essence when he says, "This is what I believe to be true: You have to do everything you can, and if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining".
She presented, in lyric form, the nightmarish essence of the 2008 Palin campaign experience ("When I say Obama, you say Ayers!
