1.   As the sweat poured off his cousin, Lorenzo Gatti tried to distill the essence of Arturo.

2.   At his best, he uses movement in a new way, avoiding narrative connotation but the physical force of every gesture or movement distills the essence of emotion.

3.   A few weeks ago, before the dissatisfaction surfaced, Polanco had distilled the essence of his difficult task.

4.   But he is not a choreographer who knows how to distill the essence of character and telegraph a basic truth.

5.   But unlike them, he became too absorbed in the reality of a look, rather than distilling its essence and commenting on it in an original way.

6.   I distilled essences of toadstool and stavesacre and marveled at those dark gases unfurling serpent tails within my glass architecture of pumps and pulleys . . .

7.   If its essence can be distilled, it is Nashville with the testosterone still intact.

8.   Miller distills that essence, as much with exhaustive and ingenious synthesis of source material as with plain old good storytelling.

9.   One student seemed to distill the essence of what the program tries to teach when he spoke about how he felt about the upcoming test.

10.   Stevenson distills the essence of each allegorical season.