cynosure
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While Jolyon is a central character in “The Forsytes,” Soames’ inner conflict is Galsworthy’s cynosure: He’s a man who prizes acquisition and possession to the extent that he cannot love.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
From these beginnings, the Voice grew into a cynosure of the counterculture.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024
DOM is in a spacious underground room, with a glowing bar done in striated honey onyx as its cynosure.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
A cynosure of everything forward-looking and ambitious in urban design, it represented to her, almost alone, the apotheosis of the “super blocks” that destroyed the “hurly-burly” of city life.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2016
The contagion spread, and in a minute Manasseh was the cynosure of all eyes and the unmistakable recipient of an "ovation."
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
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