What's the difference between quintessential and superlative?

Quintessential


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (2) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
  • (3) Hussain’s concerns and desires are of course quintessentially British – as Swiss Miss hot cocoa may be American and good galettes Belgian.
  • (4) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
  • (5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
  • (6) But like other American exports, the chain would soon become a quintessentially British institution, with a presence on almost every high street and a unique place in the hearts of the nation's shoppers.
  • (7) We will be bringing a quintessentially British department store with western brands,” said Oddy.
  • (8) The Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore , has insisted it remains "quintessentially English" despite an influx of foreign players, managers and owners over the past two decades.
  • (9) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
  • (10) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
  • (11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
  • (12) They know that his prominence would screw a tight lid on the pot of potential leave support because Farage is the quintessential Marmite politician: repellent to those that do not find him delectable.
  • (13) Waitrose is pledging to expand the current range of 200 "quintessentially British products" to around 500, and will pay a fixed percentage royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail purchases.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
  • (15) It will be a scene as quintessentially Big Apple as Broadway, yellow cabs and the Statue of Liberty.
  • (16) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
  • (17) This song, for me, is quintessential Lou Reed, and is up there with the very best rock 'n' roll songs ever recorded."
  • (18) Scudamore recently asserted that the overseas billionaires who have bought the top clubs are attracted to a game that is still "quintessentially English".
  • (19) He seemed so quintessentially New Labour – a Catholic comprehensive schoolboy from Merseyside who read English at Cambridge, worked as a parliamentary adviser and was elected in 2010.
  • (20) Whether its trajectory follows theirs, or that of nearby Frisco, the quintessential Dallas exurb, hangs in the balance.

Superlative


Definition:

  • (a.) Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character.
  • (a.) Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
  • (n.) That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.
  • (n.) The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
  • (2) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
  • (3) That's a superlative goal from the 31-year-old debutant, who is now assured of a place in history even if he never wins another cap again in his life.
  • (4) He maintained both that this once-unavoidable change was no longer needed at all, owing to his superlative handling of the wider public finances, and – at the same time – that the cut was eventually happening anyway, as universal credit replaces tax credits.
  • (5) But according to the few Trump supporters willing to speak on the record – all of whom speak in superlatives of their adopted country and its people – Mexicans simply misunderstand the real-estate mogul.
  • (6) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
  • (7) The superlative regenerative capacity of rodent axons may limit the applicability of this model to human nerve tissue.
  • (8) We turn, as ever, to the superlative Complete Review, where MA Orthofer's reading of the Nobel betting patterns is legendary.
  • (9) "We're a bit suspicious of people who use too many superlatives," added guitarist Mark Webber.
  • (10) First Ramsey, enjoying his most prolific season under Wenger, restored his side's lead courtesy of a superlative volley after connecting with Carl Jenkinson's cross.
  • (11) application of comparative and superlative forms of an adjective to nonwords.
  • (12) I was right on deadline and in a panic not only to find fresh superlatives for the most electric hour of sport I had ever witnessed, but to string together any kind of coherent sentence at all.
  • (13) Moses has needed more than the occasional superlative of late.
  • (14) Steaua Bucharest 0-5 Manchester City: Champions League play-off – as it happened Read more Before the superlatives start to flow, perhaps it should be taken into account that Steaua Bucharest were generous opponents for a team with a new manager to impress.
  • (15) It's not quite believable that height is unimportant to Sellar, although he's right that it's fatuous to chase superlatives, given that the Shard does not quite equal the 82-year-old Chrysler building in New York.
  • (16) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.
  • (17) I don't think there's a superlative left to describe Suárez.
  • (18) "Of course," he says; he knew "from the very beginning" that his was a "superlative" talent.
  • (19) What happened next was so extraordinary it is difficult to know if there are enough superlatives in existence to do it justice.
  • (20) In a superlative run of clichés – "gone with the wind", "one with Nineveh", "in a word" – Wodehouse revels in, and revives, the contained sphere of an exhausted language (a "small world" of its own) and makes it a little larger.