crux

The crux of the problem remains on this side of the Pacific.

The crux of the matter is not the date of the next elections, but ensuring that elections are free, fair, and clean.

That, he says, is at the crux of why Pope Francis wants to train more exorcists.

And yet, despite the banter, the crux of the issue is the feasibility of it all.

The crux is new representation: of body, of proportion, of aesthetic ideals.

The very word (crux) was used among them as a curse, especially in the form ad (malam) crucem.

Ah, that was it—that was the crux of the whole matter; and he remembered now that never once had she reproached him with that.

Priests are portrayed in adoration of the crux ansata before phallic monuments.

Every Sunday morning proved the crux of her experience, and Mrs. Caukins' nerves were correspondingly shaken.

The crux of the whole matter is not exhaustion, but a loss of control over the nervous forces.