Sentence examples for phrase the point from inspiring English sources

Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus uses a similar phrase, "the point of view of Sirius".

Whatever the catch phrase, the point is that pay should bear some relation to a worker's output.

To use Sidgwick's phrase, the point of view of morality is not one's personal point of view but rather "the point of view … of the Universe" (Sidgwick 1907, p. 382).

In contrast, the most external perspective, an encompassing standpoint utterly independent of one's particularity, would be, to use Henry Sidgwick's phrase, the "point of view of the universe," that is, the standpoint that considers the interests of all sentient beings at all times and in all places.

Objective descriptions of equipment bypass the very "equipmentality of equipment [Zeughaften des Zeuges]" (PLT 32/GA5 17)—as Heidegger still phrases the point in "The Origin of the Work of Art"—because such descriptions fail to notice, let alone capture, what it is like to be integrally involved with equipment in engaged use.

No matter what the chosen phrasing, the point is the same: despite the violence, as these crimes against humanity rarely pose direct threats to "American interests," there is little reason to get involved.

There are many ways to phrase the turning point.

But her tendency to stretch phrases to the point of losing momentum also marred the first part of the program, which included Chopin's Nocturne in D flat (Op.27, No. 2); Daniel Felsenfeld's "Cohen Variations," a series of mellow ruminations on Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne and Brahmsms's Intermezzo in A (Op. 118, No. 2), played without pauses from one work to the next.

There is nothing of Jarrett's improvisational fluency in his Bach, which is squarely phrased to the point of stodginess, although Makarski is slightly more dramatic.

And after books have been filled out describing this, after words have been exhausted -- as the Qur an says, if the oceans were ink and trees were pen, the praise of our Lord could not be exhausted -- in one short phrase the Quran points simultaneously to the limitation of language, and the invitation to dream more: "or nearer".

We are not proud of The Ivory Tower -- both the implications of the phrase and the points made in the documentary that bears its name.