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polestar

[pohl-stahr] / ˈpoʊlˌstɑr /










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It’s hard to muster one’s revolutionary fervor for Cohn, the man the “Bad Gays” podcast once labeled “the polestar of human evil.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

“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

The polestar, which you tell me may be my guide, is often for a long time concealed by impenetrable clouds.

From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.