Sentence examples for without essence from inspiring English sources

This is a Pope who is nothing more than a metaphor to himself, who demands in turn that the Pope be a symbol of terrifying absence to everyone else: a man without essence.

God is pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion.

The being of a thing is brought into existence by God at the same instant as its essence, since essence without being and being without essence would be two self-contradictory states of affairs.

In fact, essence without being would imply that an individual could be something of a given type without being real in any way, and being without essence would imply that there could be the existence of a thing without the thing itself (Tractatus de universalibus, chap. 6, pp. 122 23).

Identities can be held together by narratives, in short, without essences.

Whatever else each film offers, without that essence and without the artistry of those particular actresses, we wouldn't be celebrating "The Sound of Music's" 50th anniversary, "Pretty Woman's" 25th.

"His work exists without an essence.

It is an identity without an essence" (Halperin, 1995, 62, original emphasis).

Nor will any of the three worlds of information distribution go down without their essence being absorbed, Mega Man-like, into the being of the others.

In essence, without doctors present.

I wanted to respect the house's structure and essence, without imposing scars on it".