Quintessential
quintessential (adjective) - the most typical example of something (or the most important part)
quintessentially (adverb)
quintessence (noun)
Example sentences:
* Everybody thinks of him as the quintessential Bangkokian.
* It is the quintessential product for the young unmarried urban dwelling female professional with no time to spare.
* Football stars are the quintessence of machismo.
* The strange pranks he played on famous people, like throwing a pie in their face, were quintessentially weird.
* "Sherry before dinner is quintessentially English."
* "Roasted garlic with with sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican meal."
* The quintessential charm of his songs is what makes them live on 20 years after his death.
* Tourist guide: On your right, you can see a quintessential English village.
* School vouchers are the quintessential conservative policy that solve the bitter political problem of what schools should teach by handing it over to the people to decide.
* As you stroll through the parts of Yaowarat with 100 year old shophouses, you know you're walking through the quintessential Bangkok neighborhood.
* The quintessential problem that industrial societies face is how to maintain labor productivity at the same time as workers learn to allocate their increasingly limited time between their family and work.
* Singapore and Hong Kong are the quintessential crowded Asian port cities.
* "They are the quintessential wildflowers - pure ,luminous, fragile, and yet sturdy."
