11.   It is a fashion whose very essence is contradiction and confusion.

12.   This confusion is the very essence of the concept of an allegory of reading.

13.   Perhaps because it is of the very essence of human beings that they transcend any situation into which they come or bring about.

14.   Along the way she inquires into the very essence of religious experience.

15.   And in Berlin, sensuality often has a brash and electric tinge, the charge of a city whose very essence is flux.

16.   And that, some argue, is the very essence of education.

17.   As Algy says, the very essence of romance is uncertainty.

18.   As it turns out, they have also changed the beginning, the middle and the very essence of the book.

19.   Bit by bit, we have been relinquishing the very essence of what makes a home.

20.   A test of leadership, challenging the very essence of the Episcopacy, was almost inevitable, those following the New Jersey case say.