quintessential

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Whether that would deliver the quintessential university campus experience remains to be seen.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

But as Burton’s team writes in their clemency petition to Ivey, Burton’s case is an extreme outlier, “a quintessential case for the exercise of executive clemency.”

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Here McDermott’s inspired staging demonstrated that Glass’ forgiving personal portrait of Walt Disney makes it the quintessential Hollywood opera that no one dares bring to squeamish Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Here is the quintessential Westerner about to transform himself from Honest Abe the rail-splitter into Father Abraham, the avuncular statesman capable of handling the looming crisis over disunion and slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The quintessential Bachian form of counterpoint was the fugue.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall