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Examples
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They're out because people are scaling back on ANY 'unessentials' in life.
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He saw life very simple; he did not love refinements; he was a friend to much conformity in unessentials.
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During the few remaining moments of his visit they spoke of unessentials, and before she was aware he had gone away, leaving with her a memorandum of his address at the time.
A Lost Story 1996
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It is no question of a composer's rights: he has a right to do anything he can, provided that he preserves a due proportion between essentials and unessentials.
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The listener will inevitably concentrate on the unessentials, and will as likely as not get them quite wrong; he may indeed indulge the habit of realistic suspicion to such an extent as to make him become thoughtlessly unfair and credit the composer with sins of taste, whether babyish or pathological, of which the objurgated culprit may be altogether innocent.
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She had beauty, talent, wealth, everything to make existence pleasant and satisfactory, but she had allowed externals and unessentials to encroach upon it, to govern her actions, to usurp the place of her best powers, to creep into her motives, till there was little germ and heart of reality left, and she was beginning to feel starved and aimless in the midst of what might have been plenty.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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But all these unessentials faded away from sight when Dr Hegelmann spoke.
Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg
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During the few remaining moments of his visit they spoke of unessentials, and before she was aware, he had gone away, leaving with her a memorandum of his address at the time.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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There was a curious dearth of small objects and unessentials, nothing in all the great space that could fatigue the eye or perplex the brain of the occupant.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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The difference seems to lie in those parts of life which are sometimes believed to be the unessentials and which indeed our whole educational policy assumes apparently to be trivial.
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge
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