essential qualities
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Chrystabell hits on the essential qualities of Lynch’s music.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025
"He has the two essential qualities required for success as the chair of University Challenge," said the Independent's Sean O'Grady in a five-star review.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2023
The Candoco dancer Ihsaan de Banya said learning “Set and Reset” felt like detective work, decoding the movement to find its essential qualities.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022
To guide the way, she’s created the acronym “ROCKS,” which pulls together the five essential qualities to raising kids ready to change the world: Reflection, Open dialogue, Compassion, Kindness and Social justice engagement.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021
You can never be well off, my dear Phil, for to do you justice, you lack the essential qualities of rascality and sycophancy which are requisite to the manufacture of the ‘successful man.’
From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram