What's the difference between alchemical and quintessence?

Alchemical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to alchemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It believe it can pile spending cuts and tax rises on to a weak economy and by a mysterious alchemical process no one but initiates understands private enterprise will boom and provide the jobs and income to change Britain into a rich country with a small state.
  • (2) The academic evidence on city size and growth rates is ambiguous because there are many complexities; agglomeration itself is a mysterious and alchemical process between underspecified variables.
  • (3) There’s a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
  • (4) The study of China's alchemical tradition can provide considerable insight into early Chinese medical theory, pharmaco-therapeutic practice and psychosomatic concepts.
  • (5) In particular, we studied the "alchemic" mutation of the inhibitor Ac-Ser-Leu-Asn-(Phe-Hea-Pro)-Ile-Val-OMe (S1) to Ac-Ser-Leu-Asn-(Phe-Hea-Pro)-Ile-OMe (S2), where Hea is hydroxyethylamine, in two different (R and S) diastereomeric configurations of the hydroxyethylene group.
  • (6) The answer is to be found in those "cosmic" performances, where, in a truly alchemical transformation of elements, something is achieved that goes beyond the egos of the players or the conductors and the only choice is to follow the musical energy that's being created on stage.
  • (7) For my benefit, in the sunshine, he explains a little of how the alchemical elements of English Magic came about.
  • (8) Fergie has subverted much in his two and a half decades of omnipotence, desecrating the face of Adonis with a projectile boot, alchemically balancing the lords of capitalism that took over the club from his friend Martin Edwards .
  • (9) This article presents a historical survey and analysis of some important aspects of Chinese alchemical research and theory.
  • (10) He’s one of my formative crushes, the base of the unconscious alchemical blueprint for what I find attractive.
  • (11) Is the Glasgow scene a flash in the pan, a one-off alchemical combination of people, place and time?
  • (12) In a place that was used to transforming acts, the swelling of the river and the flooding of the land each summer was about as alchemic an act as man could imagine.

Quintessence


Definition:

  • (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
  • (n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
  • (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was the quintessence of political violence in Mexico for decades, between the state and the leftist opposition.
  • (2) The idea that you can devolve it all is nuts.” Then there are the pubs, those quintessences of British culture that also have the ability to give space and identity to a city’s multiple communities.
  • (3) Unlike Nabokov, Kafka could certainly discern music and respond to it, but just as he found it hard to assent to "the quintessence of life", so he found it impossible to believe wholeheartedly in its expression.
  • (4) In his journals, he wrote that his aim was to render "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh".
  • (5) On his return to California, he continued to use his camera as a means to express "the very substance and the quintessence of the thing itself", photographing in close-up what he saw around him: an egg-slicer, a toadstool, a cup, a gnarled tree.
  • (6) It is subtitled Something Out of Nothing, a title that says much about how his ever-restless imagination had found yet another way of seeing, and one that perhaps surprised even himself in its rendering of "the very substance and quintessence" of that extraordinary landscape.
  • (7) One: rural reform in a country where land, land rights and ownership of land are the quintessence of politics and power.
  • (8) Humiliated rage and furtive envy characterise Muslim insurrectionaries and Hindu fanatics today as much as they did the militarist Japanese insisting on their unique spiritual quintessence.
  • (9) Sacks goes on to quote Schopenhauer approvingly: "Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves."