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Перевод: quintessence

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Тезаурус:

1. Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances.
2. Lawrence, who, besides representing to many of his admirers in political circles the very quintessence of those qualities on which the successful transformation of empire into Commonwealth would depend, was an imperial hero to the British public.
3. Well, she thought the caravan was the quintessence of OK-ness.
4. IF THE Ley is the quintessence of Herefordshire Elizabethan, then Restrop is the quintessence of north Wiltshire Elizabethan.
5. Which brings us to camp, considered by some to be the essence of the homosexual sensibility, by others, both within and without gay culture, as virtually the opposite: the quintessence of an alienated, inadequate sensibility (above, Chapter 3).
6. To others, it relates to the "quintessence", the luminous and invisible fifth element that binds together the normal four elements of earth, air, fire and water.
7. The water shot stood as the quintessence and pinnacle of the photographer's art.
8. Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade, personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen, clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine, but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard.
9. We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles - those of hard work, thrift and sobriety - and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic.
10. These syllables are for me the quintessence of the Beautiful, the Worthy, they are an inspiration, a political confession of faith and a moral and spiritual claim".
11. My respected landladies, who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality, would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting, so, in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary, a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks, and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits, the geniality of the sunshine was felt, and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress (some eight miles from Stornoway, where I was due at eight o'clock, if I remember rightly), might have waited breakfast for me.
12. Wooded hills rise behind this, the quintessence of an ancient English manor house.