"former essence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the essential characteristics of something in the past, as opposed to the current or modern version. For example, you could say "the former essence of the building was preserved in its remodel."
Attendees of the April 7th dinner included Meryl Streep, who presented the Global Trailblazer Award to Kiran Bedi for the film Yes Madam, Sir, Megan Mullally and husband Nick Offerman (star of "Parks & Recreation"), Jill Scott, 14-year-old fashion blogger Tavi, Beacon Award recipient Sheryl WuDunn, The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and former Essence editor-in-chief Susan Taylor.
But fossils fail to inform us of the nature of our ancient antecedents because they have been transformed into stones that give us only a minuscule, often misleading impression of their former essences and thus are largely irrelevant to modern biology's experimentations with living organisms.
C. Vivian Stringer, the women's basketball coach at Rutgers, was there to watch her former players, Essence Carson, a rookie on the Liberty, and Tammy Sutton-Brown, a veteran on the Fever.
(PMN 171) Rorty provides this view with a label: "Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call 'epistemological behaviorism,' an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein".
Audrey Edwards, a former editor at Essence magazine, is an award-winning magazine journalist, writer and book author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, AARP The Magazine, Columbia Journalism, and TheRoot.com.
First, the assessment of fluid responsiveness using PETCO2 variations should potentially share the same limitations as interpreting CO changes during PLR, since in this context the former is in essence just a surrogate for the latter.
TO most people, there is only one "O" as far as icons from Chicago are concerned.But when Mikki Taylor, the former beauty editor at Essence, speaks of "O," there is no doubt whom she is talking about".Mrs.O.
At 35 Ms. Baldrige, known as Tish, left her job as public relations director for Tiffany & Company to help out a friend, the former Jacqueline Bouvier, becoming, in essence, the social secretary of the Kennedy White House as it emerged as a center of culture, art, youthful elegance and sparkling state dinners.
As for skin tone, the cosmetic companies have been expanding their range ever since Iman established a line of darker foundations, in 1994, although in March, 2014, a former beauty director of Essence, Aretha Busby, complained to the Times,"The companies tend to stop at Kerry Washington.
The organization is a coalition of advocacy groups, including the National Urban League, 100 Black Men in America and the Y.W.C.A. "It's a burning desire to use whatever resources she has to help our young people," said Terrie Williams, a longtime friend of Ms. Taylor's and a former communications executive at Essence who runs a public relations firm in New York.
We wondered if attention would shift back to Placas' racially-charged hiring when Michael Bullerdick, Essence's former managing editor, resigned from his position in April after posting racist comments on his personal Facebook page.
