quintessentially

quintessential | American Dictionary

quintessential
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌkwɪn·təˈsen·ʃəl/
representing the most perfect or most typical example of something:
a quintessential small town
a quintessential athlete

quintessentially

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˌkwɪn·təˈsen·ʃə·li/
She is quintessentially American.

Examples of quintessential

quintessential
Helping others whom one has assumed no prior obligation to help is the quintessential way to make anyone's existence significant to some degree.
Her poem's stammering, frayed edges seek to chart a ' ' quintessential clarity of inarticulation ' ' (95).
Unquestionably, the development of population as an object of study owes its genesis to that quintessential sign of modernity: the modern census.
Organized labor was a quintessential aging social movement by 1972.
The quintessential ' stationary rebels ' are secessionist\\regionalist movements.
It sets the scene for some quintessential entities such as ' scientifically defined ' social classes, international capitalism, and colonial bourgeoisie.
Physics, after all, is a quintessential^ modernist endeavor, at least as ordinarily understood.
The traditional altars that used to be the quintessential location for praying are never used.
This point was closely related to the second - that mathematics is the quintessential example of a well-grounded science.
During the first half of this century, popular magazines regularly referred to this country as the quintessential banana republic, and with good reason.
It was an individual experience of a quintessential element of self moral cultivation for the salvation of not only self, but also of society.
What we have here is the quintessential forbidden trade-off.
For this purpose wild species are the obvious choice, since in the natural environment dormancy plays a quintessential ecological role in the survival of species.
The quintessential finding of mitral regurgitation is a systolic murmur loudest at the apex.
We have undertaken to address cognition and memory not as the location of the quintessential self but as simultaneously individual, social, collective and relational.
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