Sentence examples for the simple essence from inspiring English sources

Theologians in this school engaged in a century-long "quest for the historical Jesus," in which they sought the simple essence of Christianity.

As William Friedkin, the director of "The Exorcist," observed 27 years after Linda Blair's head spun 360°, horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" The horror director Brian De Palma once described the simple essence of his genre: "There is just something about a woman and a knife".

The eternal truths derive their reality from the "Simple Essences of things" and these are the eternal divine ideas, which stand in Suarezian accidental relations to one another (71).

But the multiplayer approach for this DOOM was very much about finding that simple essence that informed the original.

There again, if the long history of the Tories is reducible to any simple essence, it is surely divided between the urge for power and a deep sense of nationhood.

These records capture the simple lunatic essence of early-90s rave but sound so much fiercer.

By no means did these groups cling any longer to the notion that when they found unity they would have found a simple essence of Christianity.

She's young, sure, but it takes maturity to distill a song down to its simple essence.

Asking and then answering a question about what he had learned during a month inside a treatment center in Arizona, Mr. Limbaugh said, "You can boil it down to one real simple essence: I can't be responsible for anybody's happiness but my own".

Because it is simple, essence and existence are identical in it.

If you can dodge the minefields of oak substitutes and other winemaking tricks that are intended to imitate expensive wines — "true cheepnis," in the monster movie sense — you just might find some wines in which you can taste simple essences rather than fancy mock-ups.