This is not quite as dramatic as it first sounds: essential services will be maintained and pensioners will still get their Social Security checks as the freeze applies only to discretionary spending.
Playing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) and conductor Robin Ticciati, he threw himself into the concerto's tumult and made its kinks sound essential.
But when the parent company's head of marketing, Michael Ganal, rolled out the new Mini One D to a charmed crowd in Geneva, he made it sound essential to Mini's survival in Europe.
Which sounds like essential reading for any owner of a blue dog.
It originally sounded about as essential as Star Trek Voyager, but MTMTE's vivid characterisation, self-referential humour and wicked habit of unexpectedly killing off beloved characters has made it the buzziest of cult favourites.
He never worried that his music, in essential respects, sounded quite unlike anything that had come before or was being written around him.
Student writers are under pressure to learn to hear themselves, to hear how they sound, to make essential judgments about tone and pace and transition.
Which, frankly, doesn't sound quite so essential as detecting fire.
It is well to consider whether this vision of leadership, however modest it may sound, is more essential in a president than vaulting language or lofty goals -- and far more difficult to achieve.
Any live musician will tell you that good sound is essential for a performance, and will likely have stories of awful acoustics, echoey rooms, and uncooperative sound guys.
