quintessential
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of quintessential
Ignoring people you hooked up with at Shooters when encountering them on campus is a quintessential Duke experience.
But in reality he is the quintessential example of how Washington corrupts.
Santorini is an island of churches: nearly 400 of them, many topped with the quintessential blue dome.
No wonder that of all the Bradys, it is the quintessential old maid who we miss the most.
What, in your view, makes a quintessential Sony Classics release?
Sony Pictures Classics’ Michael Barker and Tom Bernard on Woody Allen and the State of Indie FilmRichard Porton
May 22, 2014
Historical Examples of quintessential
Where the notion of doing so is simply ludicrous, you have quintessential poetry.
Poetry for Poetry's SakeA. C. Bradley
A quintessential drop of intellect is apt to be in poetic blood.
The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeRupert Brooke
You were sixteen then, and the effect as you came into the room was quintessential.
Marge AskinforitBarry Pain
But after he has made them quintessential of a class, he must be careful also to individualize them.
Materials and Methods of FictionClayton Hamilton
Then turning after a moment's silence to the girl, "What says our Quintessential Stone to this?"
The Long NightStanley Weyman