The phrase "a cardinal point of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a fundamental or essential aspect of a topic or argument.
Example: "Trust is a cardinal point of any successful relationship."
Alternatives: "a key aspect of" or "a crucial element of".
His manic street preaching has been one of the fundaments of a band who, in turn, have long been a cardinal point of good taste in guitar music.
While it still mouths that support, which one senior official called a "cardinal point of our foreign policy" this week, it is now balanced by an active, and growing, friendship with Israel.
You could wander its cobbled Altstadt, sample its culinary speciality, a liqueur-drenched Kirschtorte, even stay on to see one of Zug's renowned sunsets, without ever imagining you were at a cardinal point of the global economy - or in a town that, for years, was the hideout of the world's most wanted white-collar criminal.
A cardinal point is Orozco's way of relating to post-minimalism, notably the achievements of Bruce Nauman and Eva Hesse, as a cogent, fertile tradition, rather than — as it has often seemed for the past forty years — a terminal breakdown of art's formal integrity, relevance to life as it is lived, and civilized appeal.
The houses of the royal wives were formerly located in the southern portion of the site, a cardinal point traditionally associated with femininity and spiritual power.
The god of the year entered the sacred precincts according to the cardinal point of the compass that he represented (and thus there were only four New Year's gods).
In it he expounded the concept of the focal length and cardinal points of a lens system and developed formulas for calculating the position and size of the image formed by a lens of given focal length.
At every point of intersection, a cluster of five sampling points was systematically laid out at an interval of 100 m apart distributed in the four cardinal points of the intersection (Figure 1).
They have a plain hull with a lattice or tubular superstructure that is surmounted by a distinctive "topmark". There are four possible topmarks, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass i.e., north, south, east, and west.
Chan's iconoclastic rhetoric and its fondness for using such apparently negative terms as no-thought, no-mind and no-cultivation as cardinal points of liberating practice might suggest seeing Chan as a premodern form of deconstructivism.
For towed diver surveys, a single boat operator (GSA) and diver on snorkel (TMW) made a straight course at constant speed from the ship toward the eight cardinal points of the compass (north, northwest, west, southwest, south, southeast, east, northeast).
