If you want to picture it in its barest essentials, think of an increasingly irate white man of 65 in Edgbaston, who once voted Tory, but now can't see the point.Note the fact that on these numbers, the public has slightly warmed to the EU, which only points up what a multifaceted business this is.
Merrell's marketing spiel describes it as "stripped right down to its bare essentials", but it's so burdened with superfluous nobbly bits that it's positively baroque.
The thesis statement (sometimes just called the "thesis") is a single sentence that summarizes your entire argument, boiling it down to its bare essentials.
For the exhibition I am making a work called Cyathea australis, using the early tools of photography reducing this medium to its bare essentials in a series of photogenic drawings that interrogate an era before the Anthropocene.
This strategy of stripping an enzyme or other protein to its bare essentials, described in today's issue of Science, could reveal the way particular kinks and folds dictate how a protein works.
The central bureaucracy that reacted so clumsily when children in Belgium said they felt sick after drinking Coke products last spring has been pruned to its bare essentials; Coke says it expects to be more responsive to political and social concerns.
He means that her writing presents a viable real-world politics because in it our crazily complex world is stripped, by fantasy, to its bare essentials.
It is all he imagined: computing stripped to its bare essentials.
It's just a great idea, stripped down to its bare essentials and delivered with absolute finesse.
"My story is stripped down to its bare essentials: between existence and nonexistence," he tells us.
Yves Joly stripped the art of the puppet to its bare essentials by performing hand puppet acts with his bare hands, without any puppets.
