essentialness

Example Sentences

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“If I can’t convince you about the essentialness of wrestling with questions of democracy and authoritarianism today, when can I?” said co-editor Will Dobson.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

As quickly as we're learning about the essentialness of these systems, though, we're also actively destroying them with a variety of unsustainable practices.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2021

“It is the essentialness of oneself, the psyche, the fragment of unity. Male and female are sex, masculine and feminine are gender, and though the conceptions obviously overlap, they are far from synonymous.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

Is there an essentialness of justice, or a prancing view of it?

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018

Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John