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Webb and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had two options: Mimic the 1937 cartoon shot for shot and be slammed for the craven inessentiality of such an exercise, or change anything and face fans’ wrath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

What is humorous about farting is not necessarily its inessentiality as is its status as a sign of our essential nature as thermodynamic systems.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013

To solve it, indeed, he makes no effort; for with a rapid instinct he comprehends, not only the impossibility, but, as regards all human purposes, the inessentiality, of its solution.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.