Yet what puts her in a class by herself is her combination of down-to-earth writing and the ingredients essential to influential opinions: conceptual insight, penetrating legal analysis and argumentative verve.
The point is that, for most of us, the essential and most influential experiences of life are relational.
The cycle, as well as his numerous other novels, plays, poems, and critical essays, has established Cooper's reputation as one of the most influential and essential writers of his generation, even if here in the States his book sales have never equalled his status.
We find a greater proportion of essential genes among the influential nodes than among hubs (p<.001, Fisher's exact test) or bottlenecks (p <.001, Fisher's exact test).
In his influential book, The Essential Difference, Baron-Cohen argued that "the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy.
Mr. Parrott wrote the book on Bach's chorus, or at least an influential one, "The Essential Bach Choir" (Boydell Press, 2000).
And yet while even relatively conservative figures such as Simon Jenkins, Max Hastings and Geoffrey Wheatcroft show an admirable and essential pragmatism, many distinguished and influential commentators of the liberal-left, while pronouncing on jihad and Islam, seem reluctant to engage with the lives or views of ordinary Muslims.
Allmusic's Steve Huey declared Paid in Full one hip hop's most influential albums and "essential listening" for those interested in the genre's "basic musical foundations".
Detection of such influential points is therefore essential.
The oppression of women in the Middle East, especially by the most influential Islamic states, is essential to the power structure that fosters religious zealotry.
