Sentence examples for nub of things from inspiring English sources

WENDELL STEAVENSON: Aha yes, the nub of things.

Which gets nicely to the nub of things and all the uncomfortable grey areas lurking there.

I feel like drama can sometimes get to the nub of things better, there's more freedom and no requirement to be balanced".

You must ignore the battalions of oleaginous waiters and the depth of the varnish on the dining room's wood panelling, the stiffness of the menu, the pointless stools for the ladies to rest their handbags on, and the general relentless palaver of dining at this level - not unlike having your leg humped by some desperate sex-starved terrier for three hours - to get to the nub of things.

After a handshake of purest cast iron, we get straight to the nub of things.

That's the nippled nub of this thing.

"The nub of the thing is reneging on something that they initiated.

And this gets to the nub of the matter.

These responses go to the nub of the matter.

The nub of the matter concerns the relation between power and justice.

That brings us to the real nub of the matter.