Sentence examples for common points of reference from inspiring English sources
He asked, "Are common points of reference dwindling?
The politicians, ever-hungry for common points of reference, jumped on the opportunity.
Ramaphosa, when we met, was cagey and ingratiating, with that habit good negotiators have of dropping in common points of reference.
Has the personal niche supplanted the public square?" My answer would be that the collective vocabulary and common points of reference are not only dwindling now but have been for centuries.
In a fraction of a paragraph on Kipling, for instance, Naipaul manages to distill what other writers would extrude into a full-length volume: "The club-writer always needed the club, the common points of reference; he needed the legend, which perhaps his own stories had helped to create...
His is a landscape in which such common points of reference as train trips and street directions come as alien intrusions into a life given over to mathematical wizardry and a desire to find out who killed the neighbor's dog in the "curious incident" of the title.
Familiarize yourself with how these tools operate, and you better equip yourself to interact with children, speak from common points of references, and understand how all can be properly and improperly utilized.
The former C.E.O. of U.S.A. Rugby, Nigel Melville, who stepped down from that position at the end of June, told me that it's not a common point of reference among today's players, something I gathered firsthand at the U.S.A. Sevens rugby tournament, in Las Vegas, this past March.
