Afterwards, the museum will show Frank Tashlin's "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?," from 1957, a sendup of the world of advertising, television, and celebrity that, in its cartoon-like exaggeration (Tashlin got his start as a director with "Looney Tunes"), gets to the peculiar essence of those phenomena — the liberating power of mass media beneath the riotous frivolity.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, all the realist authors, with the only notable exception of Duns Scotus, regarded categorial items as composed of two main aspects: the inner nature or essence, and their peculiar mode of being or of being predicated (modi essendi vel praedicandi).
The happy confluence of opportunity and skills is not a phenomenon peculiar to the Defense Department but is the essence of America's immigrant history, whether the newcomer is an Army surgeon or translator or an Oregon entrepreneur or a Long Island landscaper.
But it's trickier to find the specific image for springtime's essence, which is that new life's peculiar intensity, for a short period.
Protected since 1988 by Unesco for its outstanding examples of 18th- and 19th-century colonial architecture – large single-storey houses sporting terracotta-tiled roofs and pretty Moorish-style courtyards – and off-limits to large-scale development due to Cuba's peculiar political situation, the town still harbours the spectral essence of a Spaghetti Western.
It is the dream-work which creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming -- the explanation of its peculiar nature".
It is usual to characterise the Carry On films in relation to Angus McGill seaside postcards and that peculiar British attitude to sex which regards it as, in essence, socially embarrassing.
That was their essence: to find pockets of meaning in the most peculiar places.
A peculiar relationship between prodazhnost', "saleability," and chestnost', "honesty," belongs to the essence of the Donbas.
But there's a strong case to be made that the fast-food industry is in essence a fluke of history, the result of a peculiar set of circumstances created by government intervention.
Among these, the last locution (v) requires explication both because it is the most peculiar and because it is Aristotle's favored technical term for essence.
