miss the point
Example Sentences
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It feels like a slice of Americana in New South Wales perhaps - but that would miss the point that here, rodeo has become very much an outback Australian tradition in its own right.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024
“But intellectual judgments of the Hitler experience — Hitler-Erlebnis — miss the point entirely.”
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024
At first, the players’ resistance to the garishness of the Second Symphony’s blaring machine music, Prokofiev’s nod to the fashion for compositions that imitate the sounds of industry, seemed to miss the point.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
Nowadays, we would call this plagiarism, but that would be entirely to miss the point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
