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

This theory of love is to serve as the highest goal and polestar of human education, and must be attended to in the germ of humanity, the child, and truly in his very first impulses.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various