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.