'stretch the point' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to mean to make an argument or point out of reach of possibility, or to distort the truth in order to make your point more valid. For example: "He was trying to stretch the point when he argued that the speed limit was irrelevant in this case."
I count four programs that are all 20th century (although counting Schoenberg transcriptions of Bach may stretch the point).
You could even contend, if you wanted to stretch the point (and why not?), that narrow, persistent focus is a monoculture of mind.
You could stretch the point and claim that Samuel Beckett was also a sports star turned novelist, since he found his way into the Wisden cricketing annals playing for Trinity College Dublin's team long before he started publishing fiction.
But as directed with verve by Tommy O'Haver Billyly's Hollywood Screen Kiss"), "Ella Enchanted" is already so heavy with computer-generated effects that calling it live-action is to stretch the point.
Some connections are more persuasive than others: linking "What the Thunder Said" to a devastating cyclone in 1896 may stretch the point, and I was delighted by Crawford's belief that the "sultriness" of English summer temperatures that reached the 70s fahrenheit must have reminded Eliot of St Louis (during the 1904 World Fair, St Louis temperatures averaged above 100F).
Unfortunately our readers couldn't come up with any other examples, although Simon Peck did brazenly attempt to stretch the point by drawing our attention to the fact that Port Vale's strikeforce in the 1982/83 season was (Bob Newtonn & (John Ridleyy - which happens to be the name of the brewery in Coronation Street.
This time, however, he stretches the point.
"That makes you richer than most Americans," said Paul, the anarchist, stretching the point a little.
And although both define themselves as outsiders, they are stretching the point.
It would be stretching the point to say that downtown Phoenix has been transformed.
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