quintessence

Example Sentences

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For 58 years--an eternity in this town--Chasen’s was the quintessence of Hollywood, as sublime as the expensive caviar that is on the menu and as low-brow as the world-famous chili that is not.

From Los Angeles Times

“Don’t be afraid of them. They are only the quintessence of vegetable juices, and everything in nature feeds upon them ravenously.”

From Washington Post

By the time she shuttered the firm in 2020, she had been called “the quintessence of cool” by the New York ABC News affiliate.

From New York Times

They call this a quintessence field, after the fifth element, or aether—the name that ancient Greek philosophers gave to an invisible material thought to fill all the empty space in the Universe.

From Scientific American

In that case, dark energy might be the work of something called quintessence.

From Scientific American