The composer Dennis DeSantis, for instance, in a manifesto on notation, writes: In this view, the score is essentially a mere set of instructions with no intrinsic artistic merit.
This victory, though essentially a mere skirmish with no lasting strategic value, greatly bolstered the confidence of the Roman army, perhaps to overconfidence on Varro's part.
It marked a turning-point: from what essentially was a mere game reserve with a couple of big cats, Ranthambore became the world's tiger capital.
Besides, it is not clear that, in the scheme of things, hedge funds really matter much: they provide useful liquidity to the financial markets but, essentially, they are mere speculators who profit from correctly anticipating market movements rather than by shaping the fundamentals of the business world.
Even when done via innocuous journalistic shorthand, granting intent to this mere process essentially deifies it -- bolstering those who claim that science seeks to take the place of religion, and who deny that evolution exists.
Metaphysical speculation is not, as some opponents of metaphysics have suggested, essentially idle that is, the mere working out of the logical consequences of premises that the metaphysician chooses to take as true.
Yet the inevitability of GNR's return also contributes to a feeling that Coachella's traditions are beginning to harden into something more obligatory: mere maintenance, essentially, for one of music's most closely watched brands.
Even though the feudal system was terrible in that it reduced the life of the serf to mere survival, essentially unpaid labor by men and women serfs on their little plot of land was shared, and within the peasant family and community structure men and women were considered equal based on the value of their different but mutually valuable skills.
Though Crittendon was a mere lieutenant, he essentially ran the show — "the conductor of the orchestra" for executions, as one of the wardens he served under put it.
The Heritage Foundation also took umbrage at the way the farm bill was passed highlighting that "the process used to get this 600 plus page bill to the floor in a mere 10 hours essentially violates their own promise to conduct business in an open and transparent manner".
