Sentence examples for mere essence from inspiring English sources

In "Hunger" he shrunk into the mere essence of a man, delicate bones covered by gossamer flesh, as Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker.

How ironic that the defiant "Louisville Lip" — with the nonstop mouth, charismatic personality and self-proclaimed pretty face — was left to communicate in his later life via the mere essence of his former self.

I felt as if the place were soiling me with filth which I would never be able to wash off because it was stronger in its essence than mere mild soap and water.

An external and semi-miraculous instrumentality is invoked to explain the prodigy whose essence defies mere scientific understanding.

First (chronologically) was Richard Bradley's argument that degree of perfection must not be argued from mere Platonic form or essence, but arrived at instead by analysis of "figure or parts" [[ 16], p.18].

Water is not mere embellishment; it is the essence of my reverie".

It is an essence purer than mere numbers, and long may it continue.

And they sought to imbue art with a spiritual essence stripped of mere physical form.

Suhrawardi's position, therefore, is greatly nominalist, now that both existence and essence are considered mere mental concepts, reality having been redefined with the new primacy of light.

Don't delay the pipeline over mere carbon worries will be the essence of it.

Commitment to a limited government, devotion to the free market, or a wariness of change, Mr. Robin writes, are not the essence of conservatism but mere "byproducts" of one essential idea — "that some are fit, and thus ought, to rule others".