fulcrum

That’s clearly the fulcrum of the whole work.

Rona may hail from a Northern Isles sheep farm, but as a 20-something studying biology in London, her life is one long, blitzed club crawl until a particularly chaotic night ends in her being assaulted — this narrative’s fulcrum as we move forward and backward.

Now, the U.S. is still, in many ways, the world’s most powerful nation, but it has less leverage over weaker nations because the source of fear—the fulcrum of America’s leverage—has vanished.

Her agents Fulcrum Talent told BBC News Sylvestre would be "sorely missed by so many".

Gomez, solemn and low-key — who one could not have foreseen becoming the fulcrum in a May-December comedy trio — provides the perfect balance.