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
Just across the black, silent sweep of the river three giant prismatic searchlights were playing high toward the polestar, such searchlights as the gods might be using in some monstrous game.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Wood, Robert Williams
