quintessential

Example Sentences

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I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the look came to be understood as quintessentially British style.

From BBC

Instead, they have produced a quintessentially American phenomenon: a roaring engine of upward mobility.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hence, the inspiration for the photo: a take on the quintessential family-style portrait — the ones you kind of cringe at when you walk into someone’s home, radiating manufactured happiness.

From Los Angeles Times

It's also a quintessential slice of Australian community.

From BBC