The romance loses its asymmetry and thus its essence.

He says that the first half of the movie is catching while the second half loses its essence at times.

"It may be that there's a danger of changing it - of losing its essence," he says.

He is steeped in the bossa nova, and he knows it well enough to stretch the form without losing its essence.

Of course, religion in such hands loses its essence.

But now it has shed many of its dated accouterments without losing its essence.

In so doing, she said, she would not lose the play's essence as a late comedy.

I submit to you that, if we were to remove the bottom, this glass would lose its essence.

He knows it well enough to stretch the form without losing its essence.

However, the story can be simplified without losing its essence by neglecting the helium for the time being.