It certainly would have been more appropriate to explain a religion religiously, and not to evade the very core of the subject.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
It is this breadth of conception and unerringness of vision piercing through the external and accidental to the core of man's mixed nature which give certain of her creations something of the life-like complexity of Shakespeare's.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The nation was not corrupt at the core.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen