The phrase "human essences" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to the fundamental qualities that define human nature, such as empathy, resilience, and creativity. For example: The human essences of kindness and compassion are at the heart of our society.
The film, investigating a similar question, pushes its characters to the very limits of their humanity even as it strips them to their human essence.
Carving stone and wood was a way to escape from the mechanical bronze pomp of Victorian sculpture and rediscover the raw human essence of art.
For one such as Conrad who is sceptical about abstract ideas, for the modernist who cannot believe in human essence, context supplies character value.
The human essence is not to be found in thinking but in the existential conditions of emotional life, in anxiety and despair.
After World War II, widely published photographs from Vishniac's project came to signify in the popular imagination the human essence of what the Nazis' genocidal program destroyed.
Richard Brody wrote that Guédiguian "analyzes history to its human essence: in the face of persecution and exclusion, the Communist Party, in his view, offered these unmoored and unwelcome refugees the warmth and common cause of a tight, extended family".
THE often contentious debate about whether it is one's genes or one's environment that is the more potent shaper of one's human essence was, until recently, unclouded by many facts.
This life's work of reclamation has provided Kertész with his great theme, and a fascination with what he calls fatelessness, sorstalanság – the title of his most famous novel – which he defines here as "that specific aspect of dictatorships, the expropriation, nationalisation of one's own fate, turning it into a mass fate, the stripping away of a human being's most human essence".
The accolade was for the Texan saxophonist's courageous and eventually music-changing faith – despite all kinds of discouragement – in the visions he had been guided by since his childhood in the Great Depression of the 1930s: that the best music reflects the human essence, that creating it should start from feelings and not rules, and that all good music is one.
