(n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
(n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technical view of curriculum epitomized by the Tylerian objectives-based model focuses on measurable, quantifiable outcomes.
(2) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
(3) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
(4) If malnutrition occurs during fetal life, as epitomized by small-for-gestational age infants, the effects on cell-mediated immunity are very significant and long lasting.
(5) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
(6) The situation described by Goddard illustrates the spread of the issue to working parents in a town known until relatively recently as the epitome of the prosperous and aspirational post-Thatcher working class.
(7) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
(8) To which list I almost forgot to add that epitome of Team Australia achievement, Prince Philip.
(9) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(10) "We have to be flexible to attract more fans," says the besuited Hashimoto, the epitome of the sombre Japanese executive, making clear the company's thinking behind the switch.
(11) This is the epitome of personalised therapy,” he said.
(12) The budget of 1981 is considered the epitome of soundness, an exercise in rigour that laid the foundations for the strong economic recovery.
(13) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
(14) Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
(15) Once optimal stimulus parameters for routine application are determined, the glare pressor test with EEG and polygraphic recording will offer a clinically useful, standardizable method for evaluating the connection between central mechanisms and CV reactivity in professional drivers, a cohort of patients whose occupational activity epitomizes mentally stressful work, and who are at high cardiac risk.
(16) No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
(17) And though many Puerto Rican voters in Florida are focused on the financial crisis on the island, that doesn’t mean that they’re unconcerned with the rhetoric around immigration and “Mexicans”, as epitomized by statements made by people like Donald Trump .
(18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
(19) The history of oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula is a mini history of surgery - "oesophageal atresia is the epitome of modern surgery".
(20) To be without legs, and to become the epitome of excellence in the very field where you are not supposed to excel: that is the stuff of legends.
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."