Authors and essays both famous and forgotten, memoirs and interviews, panegyrics, eviscerations, the topical and the retrospective all speak to one another in ways that illuminate the essential personalities and debates that shaped the art, as well as the possibilities for tracking such an ephemeral subject in prose.
Still, we think of the face as the best evidence of who and what a person is — no other part of our bodies is so uniquely expressive of our minds and our essential personalities — even as we also suppose that the sex of our bodies has a lot to do with who we truly are.
But perhaps it's to do with Obama's essential personality, too.
Alex's essential personality, however, was mischievous, supremely confidant, even bossy.
In this sense the game provides essential personality to an otherwise bland 'evil' race.
Keeping the essential personality from "Bridget Jones's Diary," Fielding drops the new girl into a more adventurous setting and genre.
As a result, Astor's essential personality seems to elude his new biographer, leaving the reader with little more than the pelts and antlers, the deeds and mortgages of a life.
The point is not that individual companies pollute the environment, hurt animals, exploit workers and commit accounting fraud, but that such outrages are a result of the essential personality traits of the corporate life form.
There is not even a faint echo of the first world war and the "Waste Land" scene is omitted, as is most of the essential personality of Anthony Blanche (who in the novel performs, in addition to his other delightful functions, the very useful role of narrator of much of Sebastian's "back-story").
He presents his characters dispassionately, foregoing any personal moral judgment on them but always noting the word, the gesture, or even the reticence that betrays each one's essential personality, all the while enhancing the effect by describing the physical and social background against which his characters move.
It was coconut cake with chocolate sauce, and, of course, because love will not change your essential personality, Sally explains why it was so important that the chocolate sauce had to be "on the side".
