I know that's hard to believe under the circumstances, but the age of Trump -- or if you prefer, the damage of Trump -- has essentially yet to begin (though tell that to the Iraqis, Iranians, and others caught in mid-air, cuffed on mid-ground, and in some cases sent back into a hell on Earth).
The overall musical language is essentially tonal, yet harmonically gritty.
There are, of course, two reasons we were forced to listen to, essentially, excerpts yet again.
This is a skillfully orchestrated, restless and brooding contemporary score, composed in an essentially atonal yet harmonically grounded idiom.
And what other business can you think of where sales are essentially flat, yet the manufacturers keep ramping up volume?
Delius's essentially tonal yet harmonically ambiguous music provided melancholic beauty of its own, and also served to prepare listeners nicely for Mr. Korf's work, which followed.
For the past 3½ years, Ex-Im, as the trade-finance agency is known, has been essentially paralyzed, yet Boeing has gone from strength to strength.
"Essentially intellectual, yet emotionally stimulating too, it is as tough — and rewarding — a screen challenge as the moviegoer has had to face this year," Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times in 1958.
Most doctors view the two drugs as essentially identical, yet the cost of Nexium is more than five times that of Prilosec OTC, about $4 a pill compared with 70 cents.
I suspect, from the paucity of good plays that have been written about it, that the English lower middle-class is essentially undramatic; yet for an hour or so, abetted by our supremacy in the art of nostalgic acting, it can be immensely diverting.
The rising tenor Russell Thomas brought his essentially lyric yet sizable voice to an urgent performance of George Walker's "Lilacs," a 16-minute setting of phrases from Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed," a piece that in 1996 made Mr. Walker the first black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
