My life was essentially defined by, at best, mediocrity (I had risen to middle-management level in the public sector), and at worst failure.
The central idea here is that if our identities are forged through memory, and memory is unreliable, then who we are is essentially defined by a series of anachronisms.
Instead of pouring its programmes through pipes that it had either invented or whose development it had aided, the BBC is obliged "to play out its digital innovations in spaces that are essentially defined by Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple," in the words of Matt Locke, once head of innovation at BBC new media and now running his own company, Storythings.
All the women characters are given the perfunctory characterisation of pornography, essentially defined by the size, shape and quality of their breasts, bottom and vagina, but although Michel (novelist) is curiously discreet on the size, shape and quality of the organs of the male characters, they come off little better: "Jean-Yves works because he likes working".
A menu bar is essentially defined by the alignment – either horizontal or vertical – of its elements (see Fig. 10).
Nonetheless, even if we are not essentially persons, on the psychological view of our identity, we are essentially defined by our psychological properties.
The coextensive boundaries of Philadelphia city and county remain essentially as defined by the Consolidation Act of 1854.
The society and landscape of the uplands studies have essentially been defined by low input agrarian land use practices, which are today increasingly in question.
Until now Nintendo has essentially defined this market.
A second approach essentially defines emergence by showing that it is the result of a particular process such as symmetry breaking (Anderson 1972) or self-organization (Turing 1952; Prigogine 1980; Nicolis and Prigogine 1989; Camazine et al. 2001).
Lest the reader, or the nonreader, think that Bayard underestimates the power of reading, he proposes that we are all essentially literary constructs, defined by our own inner libraries: the books we've read, skimmed and heard about.
