principal object

The main target of its critique is also the principal object of its affection, which we might call — using a name that has lately become something of a fighting word — cinema.

From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west.

Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object.

There are early hints at congrua and congruent numbers in the work of 3rd century CE mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria, but the topic is raised more explicitly in 10th century Arab manuscripts, including one by Mohammed Ben Alhochain, who wrote that the principal object of study in the subject of rational right triangles is finding congrua.

Yet notwithstanding all the sound and fury, its 412 pages—even in redacted form—largely vindicate the principal object of Democratic attack, California’s GOP Rep. Devin Nunes.