polestar
Example Sentences
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They’re a polestar, to some degree, for bands like ours.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021
“If we can’t have a conversation with the past, what will be our future?” asks the play’s polestar, one pure-hearted Eric Glass, portrayed by moony-eyed Kyle Soller as sincerity incarnate.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2019
For in Martin’s vast creation, sprawling in both space and time, there is an ever-present drive, an orienting polestar: Who will emerge victorious and sit on the namesake Iron Throne?
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018
Removes a dark polestar, one might say, by which we measure the degree of evil.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2014
It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life.
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
