She was startled to find that her form had been reduced to its primal essence.

Then one may recover life "reduced to its essence."

Nothing else mattered; life had reduced itself to its essence.

Just like that, Bennett reduced modern sports to its contemporary essence.

Reduced to its essence, it is: Take good care of yourself, and show kindness to others.

His talent was honing a message, reducing it to its essence.

His life had reduced, at last, to its essence.

Something about the beauty of things reduced to their essence, probably.

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

Perhaps this will allow me to restore my own glory, by reducing the hunt back to its essence.