Ms. Hempel is, I think, one of the most enduring creations in American literature: tolerant, obliging to a fault, a little feckless, gifted in her own right but overwhelmed by the sheer endearing quiddity of each and every one of her students. (bookpage.com)
Exhibition view, I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I can not penetrate or name, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2015 (caseykaplangallery.com)
Heidegger is here thinking deeply into the nature of what is presented in Van Gogh's painting, thinking to experience the deep inner quiddity, the «existential inscape» of a simple pair of shoes. (firstthings.com)