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

To attain a competent reply the essential qualities of each and either realm must be uncovered and compared.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.