More important, she possessed a mind that could cut to the essential of an issue with astonishing speed.

They have shown that essential of political leadership, the ability to understand and respond to differing views.

It is the most essential of all the truths.

The only essential of tragedy is that one should take it lightly.

They believe in the siesta as an essential of life.

The other essential of the sporting life, I found, was clothing.

"The whole salvation issue is an essential of faith," he continued.

The right to be bored by a public official who won't stop talking is the least essential of human rights.

"The first essential, of course, is to know what you want."

Was that, Kenny would like to know, an essential of successful parenthood?