In its brief in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, No. 03-6696, urging the justices to uphold that decision, the administration asserts that the determination of enemy combatant status is "a quintessentially military judgment, representing a core exercise of the commander-in-chief authority" and "entitled to the utmost deference by a court".
In fact, each of the hotel's 69 rooms and suites has been individually decorated by one of London's most acclaimed interior designers, with the result being an assemblage of rooms that, while all feeling quintessentially British, simultaneously represent a spectrum of styles that run the gamut from the very modern to the very traditional.
And that's what Sliimy represents tonight – cute, charming, quintessentially French spontaneity that doesn't always make sense – like the point he wiggles his butt and seductively winds his waist all over his one-man band, or pops on a bearskin to hide his hair a bit – but deserves to be marked among the hottest, and undoubtedly fiercely fabulous newcomers in pop.
Yet, looking back, there was a zeitgeisty feel to the picture - just as the tennis girl had encapsulated a particularly 1970s mood of sexiness for thousands of teenage boys, so L'Enfant represented something quintessentially of the moment for their female counterparts.
Although these first-generation immigrants may not have experienced much contact with Italian land before representing the Azzurri, most were raised in a quintessentially Italian manner, speaking the language, eating the food and practicing the customs, and were in most cases deemed to be just as worthy of the national jersey as natives.
For a decade he represented the 6th congressional district along the Ohio River, a quintessentially heartland precinct bordering Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky.
The face of evil is represented in the film as Nazism, oft labeled as "quintessentially innate [and] supernaturally crafty", but also "in a more subterranean way, dangerously blurring... the boundaries between homoeroticism and homosexuality".
It's also possible that he was already in character, representing the first in a long line of misanthropes, boneheads and bellyachers who express themselves in his sometimes stately, often bluesy, quintessentially American songs.
It is a haunting work that circles around alternating ideas of celebration and discord, the latter represented literally by the bitter harmonic interval of a second, which nags away somewhere in the score, even when the music attains the quintessentially Reichian qualities of hypnotic rapture.
Their experiences have too long been considered the default, standard experiences that can represent all of a culture's experiences in print, but there is no reason a woman or minority can't also be the kind of quintessentially American figure who evinces our country's optimism, individualism, and quixotic idealism.
Flu seems to be quintessentially a contagious disease.
