essential qualities
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"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
If I could propose two essential qualities of Dick as a human, they would be cosmic bafflement and heroic hopefulness, both present in “Ubik.”
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Rarely stopping to inventory the essential qualities in human character, we all know them when we see them: decency, honesty, humility, honor and faithfulness.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022
But there are a few essential qualities almost all of them share.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2021
In many of the essential qualities of a novelist, he is singularly defective.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
