quiddity

Ample quotations from Hardwick allow her restless quiddity to come through.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

“There is no way you can appreciate the quiddity of an elephant except by seeing one at close quarters,” he told the Observer.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2020

Here’s an irony: if anything preserves the unnerving quiddity and strangeness of the Japanese movie, it is Johansson.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 31, 2017

Sapped of quiddity, she has become “an all-American girl.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016

Yet such is the quiddity of the English Tommy, that through this devastating anathema ran a streak of love which at the end turned the whole thing into forlorn derision.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

Managers, doormen and valets, with their quiddities and quirks, help set the tone for the singular ecosystem that is any given apartment building, as Mr. Soffer, the banker, explained.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020

“When you homogenize a city, you destroy its feeling of urbanity,” Ms. Schulman said, referring to the banks and drugstores and chains retailers steadily wallpapering over the city’s indispensable quiddities.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2016

Despite these quirks and quiddities, when Stonewall Jackson fell, mortally wounded by his own men in the confusion of battle at Chancellorsville, the last hope of the Confederacy fell with him.

From Time Magazine Archive

In defence and support of the Church thesis they brought all the quirks and quiddities of their subtle dialectics.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger