Now, as if to unburden himself, he has used great cutting to reduce modern fashion to a bare essence.

Mr. Aviv said of his approach, "I like to boil things down to their bare essence."

The Mozart is a miracle of terseness - sadness reduced to its barest essence.

'We've boiled them down,' Loman said now, 'to the bare essence.'

The years had slipped away from her like clothes slipping from lovers shedding encumbrances in order to get down to the bare essence of their being.

As a painter he sought to reduce the image to its bare essence.

"Reduce things to their bare essence by shaving away facts that do not impact upon the situation."

Mr. Torimaru said his approach to design was to start with an idea and see what he could strip away to arrive at the bare essence of a concept.

In addition, Oliver is "literally and figuratively stripped down to his bare essence" early on this season.

By stripping down to our bare essence, each of us on the start line brings to life the legacy handed down by our ancestors.