Sentence examples for points of orientation from inspiring English sources

They were supposed to stand as points of orientation in the city, carefully planned.

Where else but in your dreams do you float, seeing nothing at all, with no familiar points of orientation, unsure whether land is close or far away?

A good record shop, after all, works as a kind of portal into realities accessible via the wares in its racks (so that for the nascent Massive Attack, as King puts it, "Bristol and New York were their twin points of orientation").

The cornfield has also become a point of orientation.

Its two ornate steeples rise imposingly above the rest of the city, a point of orientation no matter where you find yourself.

The Sun is the point of orientation during the day, and birds are able to compensate for the movement of the Sun throughout the day.

We recently reached the absurd situation where reports about the reintroduction of border controls between Denmark and Sweden referred viewers and listeners to The Bridge as their principal point of orientation.

But as a result of the manner in which LAX developed — highly decentralized without a single point of orientation, much like the city it serves — that plan never came together.

In Novalis's work, the very idea of a philosophical encyclopedia provides such a point of orientation.

The navigation isn't as fluid as it could be, but at least it gives you a point of orientation to make sense of the night sky.

Unemployment rates are constantly reported in the media and may therefore act as an important point of orientation or reference in the respondents' minds.