Your "centrality" depends on how "central" your friends are, and your friends' "centrality" depends on your "centrality" and that of their other friends.
It means accepting that the spirit of inquiry should always be allowed to flourish and go wherever it is led, even if these are paths that continue to displace the centrality of the human or upset the usual ways of conceiving of the world.
There is something in academic life which is infantilising, which removes us from a sense of responsibility for the institution within which we work; which keeps us locked in a treadmill of repetition and which removes the research-active from appreciating the centrality of students.
"But there is a case to be made for the centrality of very charismatic leaders, and so for the consequences of their disappearance".
We heard little or nothing about the centrality of the sector to any hope of making our health and social care system sustainable.
Education has to be a part of that inquest, because we signally failed to use the potency of education policy – its focus on the future, its capacity to craft a different society, its centrality to wealth creation and work – to offer a compelling enough vision of a Labour Britain.
The horror of America's brutal history of slavery and racial apartheid, its centrality to American history and culture, and its comprehensive distortion of American institutions demands redress.
But the way to convey China's beneficence, might and centrality in the world order was to bestow gifts more valuable than the tribute rendered.
It was a world in which status and stability in relations across Asia were regulated through a system of tributary states acknowledging Chinese centrality.
And in America, you can see it in the centrality of the issue of illegal immigrants to opposition to health-care reform.
If I had to characterize my deepest belief, I would say it's the centrality of the individual.
