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How to use of the essence in a sentence

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The usage of contemporary words made for an easy understanding of the essence of the original work by all.
In either case, the question concerning the applicability of the essence remains assumed but undemonstrated.
Obviously speed is of the essence in this case if such an application is to be made.
In a lot of what we did speed was of the essence, but we didn't really understand the concept of time.
I suppose I don't need to say that speed is of the essence here, but I will anyway.
In an information age, where time is of the essence, perhaps Poetry, the very distillation of life itself, has come into its own.
Time is of the essence and a board meeting was held yesterday in an attempt to expedite the process.
Time is of the essence because of the enormity of the state's pollution problems.
But with such a worrying deadline, speed is of the essence for the company.
She raised her skirts to above her knees, allowing her petticoats and lace stockings to show, but time was of the essence.
Christiane, time is obviously of the essence, and you said aid is trickling in slowly.
His art is wonderfully representative of the essence of the philosophy of Indian aesthetics.
This insistence on empirical proof shows a profound misunderstanding of the essence of vitalism.
I'm a great believer that once you decide what to do, speed is of the essence.
A breech birth is the classic example, when time is of the essence to birth the baby's head.
The meeting was hastily arranged because time was of the essence.
For the critically ill or injured time may be of the essence.
It's a busy kitchen where speed is of the essence and this creation was whipped up faster than you can say pan-seared fish with herb, garlic and cheese sauce!
So too, timing is of the essence in matters of both sexuality and that other most real connection with physicality, all the pleasures associated with the art of gastronomy.
Speed is certainly of the essence in the mobile registration exercise if the targeted five million voters are to be captured before the designated 21 day period elapses.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If this imaginary, half-nothing time, be of the essence of our happinesses, how can they be thought durable?
Pour sixteen gallons of warm water into a barrel, with twelve pounds of molasses, and half a pound of the essence of spruce.
To one pint of highly rectified spirits of wine, put an ounce of the oil of rosemary, and two drams of the essence of ambergris.
Add to it the mixture already prepared, give it a boil, and flavour it with a very small quantity of the essence of anchovy.
On the other hand, it is of the essence of materialism to deny that the Will is an agent.
It is of the essence of a type to suggest an idea, as of the antitype to realize it.
In it there is as much enthusiasm as serious purpose, as much of the essence of youth as of the arriviste.
There was a carelessness, a camaraderie among these people that was of the essence of humanity.
It is not of the essence of the vertebrate type to be tetrapodal.
Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract.
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