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quintessential [,kwinti'senʃәl]

a. 精萃的, 精髓的, 典范的

quintessential

[ adj ]
representing the perfect example of a class or quality
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Quintessential \Quin`tes*sen"tial\, a.
Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic.
``Quintessential extract of mediocrity.'' --G. Eliot.

The two quintessential yuppie television shows are doing well enough, despite everything.
"I expect a very mixed reaction (to the ending)," said Bruce Paltrow, one of the show's executive producers. "I think some people will think it's extraordinary and existential and quintessential `St.
And he ended up making his last, desperate try for credibility in a city and state that symbolized social and political views light years away from the South, his chief ally that quintessential, abrasive New Yorker, Mayor Edward Koch.
And what's worse, the young crowd hardly knows Beatty, 53, who has made only two films in nine years, the last being the quintessential bomb "Ishtar."
That's a quintessential bull market."
Swooning about in a New Orleans tenement in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Blanche was the quintessential weak sister.
Draw up a list of quintessential '1990s' products, and baking soda toothpaste would almost certainly be a top pick.
For The Bells is full of paradoxes. Although thought of as a quintessential bit of British theatre history because of the association with Irving, it is not an English play.
I knew those quotes were the way he felt." Sean Connery, the quintessential Agent 007 in such James Bond films as "Dr.
A century-old clock in this quintessential New England town has pitted old-timers fond of its hourly chiming against a pair of newcomers who say the clamor is taking a toll on their sleep.
She brought with her two songs from her former band _ "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" _ that became the quintessential Haight-Ashbury sound during San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967.
As telecommunications-equipment companies go, Ericsson is the quintessential global player.
Having lost 90% of its one million readers since the revolution of 1989, the paper now faces the quintessential challenge of the market economy: compete or die.
Mr. deSabla's nine-year-old quarterly tabloid newspaper is quintessential New Age.
The first half has its moments: Innis with some crafty pop piano on "Say What's in Your Heart," reminiscent of the early Billy Joel; and a solid group effort on the title cut, a quintessential example of country pop.
A quintessential tragicomedy, "The Visit" remains a frightening tale for our times.
The music of Dutilleux is Gallic refinement at its most quintessential, hard to bring off without finely-tuned orchestral playing.
That's all well and good for them, but Simon himself stands to become a quintessential spoiler, draining votes from compatible liberal candidates without a prayer of winning himself.
Sir Rex Harrison, the English actor whose charm graced plays and films for half a century and made him the quintessential Henry Higgins in the musical "My Fair Lady," died today at age 82.
With Nelson Rockefeller's widow, Happy, sitting nearby, Gov. Mario Cuomo saluted his predecessor as "the quintessential New Yorker." The dinner benefited the Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York.
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, first and perhaps the only woman named to the Bush cabinet, has the resume of a topnotch Ivy League lawyer and the charm of a quintessential Southern belle.
For him, the quintessential surf shot was the potbellied chief executive who tore off his shirt, donned a grass skirt and lei, and had his co-workers douse him with water as he stood on the surfboard.
Mr Bond took over the Republican party chairmanship after working for Congressman Bill Green of New York, the quintessential moderate Republican, which sometimes made his fervent support of the conservative agenda look a little odd.
Yes, indeed; this was no mere solar eclipse, but a quintessential entrepreneurial opportunity to earn some hard cash for a couple of strapped economies.
Founded by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer in 1947, La Jolla was the quintessential summer stock operation featuring movie stars on a busman's holiday.
Opened in 1934 in an old streetcar, Massey's today is the quintessential Texas roadhouse with its neon beer signs, leather bar stools, Tombstone pizza and dancing on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays to a group called The Jacksboro Highway Band.
Today, he's the quintessential entrepreneur.
Mr Bush may attack this as quintessential pork-barrel politics, but has himself engaged in the same by showering federal largesse on the defence industry and farmers.
But Michael Boudin is a quintessential member of the legal establishment who has a reputation as an outstanding appellate lawyer.
The quintessential "dumb broad" of "Born Yesterday" has returned in triumph to Broadway in a polished, perceptive and almost perfect revival of Garson Kanin's comedy of political corruption, circa 1946.

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