Demand does not have to go down, by dint of creation's quiddity, when price goes up.
Propelled by Eastern-sounding percussion, Jack McNamara's powerful multi-media production complements the often haunting text with projections and film-footage of the ecological disasters it surveys and with images that focus the irreplaceable beauty and quiddity of the threatened species it mentions.
Quailing was part of Q's quiddity — the Q quaked and quivered, it quarrelled and quashed.
Where do you start if you are an academic philosopher in search of the quiddity of bullshit?
Bentley, over his lifetime, took portraits of five thousand three hundred and eighty-one snow crystals (to give them their proper scientific name; flakes are crystals clumped together) and inserted into the world's imagination the image of the stellar flower as the typical, "iconic" snowflake, along with the idea of a snowflake's quiddity, its uniqueness.
This is partly because their role is didactic: they are there to show that an Iranian love story can barely be written, and have no quiddity as literary characters.
What it has, instead, is an appetite for human quiddity, and an eye for those fleeting shocks in which cultures strike and rebound.
No matter how rumpty-tum her diction, nothing can domesticate the freakish Land of Topsy-Turvy, dilute the glacial awe of the Land of Ice and Snow, or still the fear invoked by the fucking Land of Smack — an entire world whose quiddity is pain.
Anthony Lane noted the movie's "restraint" in its depiction of its harrowing and melodramatic subject, added that it "could have been merely gruelling, but Mitchell keeps nudging scenes away from the obvious, toward the risky brink of comedy," and praised it as "a study of human quiddity and stubbornness under siege".
But a lifetime of art-history lectures will teach you less about his art's quiddity, and why and how it matters, than an hour at the Barnes.
Someone who does not know what the quiddity of a lion is nonetheless may have a concept of lion if he has encountered lions, but his concept is non-quidditative.
