principal object
Example Sentences
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The main target of its critique is also the principal object of its affection, which we might call — using a name that has lately become something of a fighting word — cinema.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
The principal object of Rorty’s derision was neither identity politics nor the rise of an ignoble free-market right but a peculiar form of decadence, which his larger intellectual project aimed to counter.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2017
The city is also clearly the principal object of Ms. Nadda’s ardor.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2010
"My principal object was, as it remains, to have control of my copy," he explained.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2010
From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
