A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.