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The essence of this point can be illustrated with a simple example.
Fires set during the rioting of 1936 at the outbreak of the Civil War tragically consumed all the trappings of chapels, choir, and altar, leaving the interior stripped to its essence.
Even more importantly, Cook's methods--which in their essence rely on the purchase of options on margin--underscore the almost complete divorce between American financial markets and American businesses.
This essence called lo Mexicano can be found in art, literature, music, and folklore, for it encompasses the whole experience of being culturally Mexican.
And I myself remembered the so-called "Nun study," which claimed that sentence complexity in writing could be used as a predictor of Alzheimer's disease later in life (in essence, nuns who wrote simple sentences as novices were more likely to be Alzheimer's victims in old age; those writing more complex sentences were less likely to contract it).