essentialness

Example Sentences

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“If I can’t convince you about the essentialness of wrestling with questions of democracy and authoritarianism today, when can I?” said co-editor Will Dobson.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

As quickly as we're learning about the essentialness of these systems, though, we're also actively destroying them with a variety of unsustainable practices.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2021

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s South African-born founder, has become a flash point in a civil rights crisis as well, this one over the inequities of essentialness laid bare by the novel coronavirus.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2020

Is there an essentialness of justice, or a prancing view of it?

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018

Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John