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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a "living substance" (milk) has been "stilled," thus "embodying the quintessential definition of the still life."
I'm not sure I totally buy Strathairn as a diffident loner with an aching conscience over a tragedy that wasn't his fault--the quintessential guiltless sinner.
The LAT quotes Jim Kennedy of the White House counsel's office saying almost the exact same thing, although Kennedy added the quintessential spontaneity-hating Washington complaint: the no-notice release was unfair.
Until he hit big with Live in the late '80s, he was the quintessential loser, a 25-year also-ran.
eBay's real strength, though, is that it is the quintessential example of the so-called network effect, which says that the value of any network to its users increases sharply--perhaps even geometrically--as the number of users of that network increases.