all-important element
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But the hearings also employ the all-important element of unpredictability, keeping its most quotable segments under wraps until broadcast.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2022
Carbon is a kind of natural backbone: the all-important element that anchors the molecules of everything from crude oil to DNA.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defensively, U.S. bases provide the all-important element of dispersal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirdly, notice how this hope is an all-important element in the Christian life.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
The girl had caught something of the spirit of it all, but she had neglected to grasp the all-important element of the relations between men, without which laws, rules, and customs become farcical and ridiculous.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
