Sentence examples for point of a needle from inspiring English sources

Journey's end can feel like arriving at the point of a needle, judgment itself, only there to meet disdain.

"A caprice written with the point of a needle," was how Berlioz described Béatrice et Bénédict, his last opera, and his final expression of his lifelong love of Shakespeare.

If anything, he argues, people tend to consider their choices more carefully after their first because they have been made acutely aware at the point of a needle what it entails.

Post-Scholastic ridicule of the sort that was directed at the alleged ontological excesses of the Schoolmen, e.g., the query "How many angels may fit upon the point of a needle?", is quite appropriately directed at metaphysical hypotheses of this sort.

Isabella told me that if what I meant by theme referred to "the point" of the song then theme is "like the point of a needle".

But then she added, "I know what you mean by point, but what I mean," she said, [by point of a needle] "is ouch that's a good idea".

"You can only smoke so much until it becomes a depressing pill, so I went on cocaine, crack, but I never got to the point of using a needle," he said.

Separate the strands ("plies") of yarn, using your fingernails or the point of a knitting needle.

If you are planning to hang your creation (such as a tree or wall ornament), poke a small hole in your object where you can affix a hanger/ribbon/string, etc. Use a kitchen skewer, the point of a knitting needle, a nail, or a pencil.

We have observed stable avalanche gain in liquid argon when mixed with small amounts of xenon (xe) in the high electric field (>7 MV/cm) near the point of a chemically etched needle in a point plane geometry.

Based on these facts, this study used a formalin test and manipulated specific acupoints, temporal point of needling, rotation of the needle, duration of acupuncture, and diameter of the needle as individual therapeutic parameters.