guiding star
Example Sentences
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Their guiding star was a speech delivered by Mario Cuomo, then the governor of New York, at the University of Notre Dame in 1984.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2022
In this way, the show’s guiding star mirrors the tech industry’s religion of “fail to succeed,” an ethos that spurs innovation but also encourages a specific kind of mean and unsparing ruthlessness.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2019
I want this ideal to hang like a guiding star above the classroom, reminding all involved of our collective responsibility to each other and the common good.
From Scientific American • Jan. 23, 2018
The aesthetic is an amalgam of the Maysles brothers, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett and Charles Addams, but the inimitable style of the Beale women is the creators’ guiding star.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2016
The farther Roz swam, the higher the guiding star climbed in the sky, until at last it was directly overhead.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
