For all its characters' weaknesses, it believes in their essential decency and capacity for love -- and for a good deal of the time it makes us believers, too.
His Sunday night radio programme South Wind Blows (on RTÉ Radio One) is essential for anyone who loves no-nonsense music.
Katie Brayben, lately seen in minor roles in King Charles III and American Psycho, makes the big leap into playing Carole King with admirable skill: she conveys her essential normality, love for music and longing for domestic harmony.
Water is essential for life.
Is sleep essential for life?
Her pursuit of love leads her to actions that are, by any journalistic standards, unprofessional; suffice it to say (no spoilers here) that the breach of ethics doesn't go unnoticed by her, yet it's as essential to her self-surprising yearning for love as it is to her artistic impulse as a writer.
Similarly, it is fair to look at Sartre's and Beauvoir's philosophy of freedom in the light of their famous pact to maintain an "essential love" for one another, while allowing for any number of "contingent lovers".
For Melissa, her family's love seemed essential for accepting her situation: " It's true that family, well, they have a tie, a love tie with you, so … whether you protected yourself or not, or whether you knowingly made a mistake or not, they love you anyway".
Communication expressed with love is essential for establishing good behavior of all kinds, and communicating how drinking can be detrimental to one's health, can help to prevent abuse of alcohol now, and help modify their drinking behavior in their later years.
You never doubt his essential love for the boys.
