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Expression: 'Captures the essence of our times'



 
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Expression: 'Captures the essence of our times' Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:53 am  Expression: 'Captures the essence of our times'
 

Hello everybody

Further to my conversation with Mr. Micawber regarding the use of essence, could you please tell me:

1- Her art captures the essence of our times.

If the sentence given above means:

Her art is one of the most important features of our era. Or she is a very eminent artist of our time.

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Essence Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:03 am  Essence
 

Hi Tom,

Capture the essence of our times could be expressed as encapsulate/convey the spirit of our times. To my generation for example the picture of a ration book immediately creates in my mind the period immediately after the second world war when almost everything in Britain had to be exchanged for tokens in a ration book. It is to me if you like a symbol of that time and in that sense 'captures the essence ...'

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