Our post last week on the United States government's decision to slash the bounty on Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the chief of the flagging Al Qaeda in Iraq, obscured a larger point on the State Department's Rewards for Justice program.
But giving Santorum a pass in this instance masks a larger point.
The kidnappers, who said they might target other American journalists in Pakistan, also miss a larger point.
Mr. Ackermann also delivered a message of gloominess, but this time it didn't seem to be in the service of a larger point.
When a Russian friend asked me what I thought of the film I told him I loved the way the director created an alternate history in order to make a larger point about the universal nature of heroism.
During a far-reaching discussion on Friday, Richard Williams had chosen to offer hard-edged snapshots of history in order to make a larger point about his two daughters' presence here.
At this particular seminar, Kiiko mentioned the palms-up technique quickly and in passing to illustrate a larger point about the rhomboids, the muscles that connect the scapula with the spine.
Should we consider the fact that satire has historically been used precisely to offend, in order to make a larger point and lead the listener to think critically about some element of the subject of the satire?
There is a larger point in Munk's acid portrait.
In his pushback, Cook made a larger point about not being a slave to ROI.
