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- the crux of the matter
- The crux of her argument is...
- It's no time to be half watching, turning around, or checking the stove—because when the book thief stole her second book, not only were there many factors involved in her hunger to do so, but the act of stealing it triggered the crux of what was to come.† (source)
- She'll be on her way to Las Cruces, New Mexico, preparing for her role as Queen of the Mutant Grasshoppers.† (source)
- That is the crux of the layman's trouble in understanding evolution: it works on a time scale so far beyond personal experience that one must train oneself to think in eons, not decades.† (source)
- Having lived his life in the heat of battle, at the crux of conversation, and in the twentieth row with its privileged view of the ladies in the loges— that is, in the very thick of things—suddenly, he finds himself invisible to friend and foe alike And the spell that had been cast over the Count by Anna Urbanova in 1923 was of this very sort.† (source)
- Your story is emotionally dead, that's the crux of it.† (source)
- It was stunning to Mariam how quickly alleviating hunger became the crux of their existence.† (source)
- The symbol was known as a crux gemmata—a cross bearing thirteen gems—a Christian ideogram for Christ and His twelve apostles.† (source)
- But firstly, no, Harry, not seven Hor-cruxes: six.† (source)
- Because that's the crux of it, isn't it, Ben?† (source)
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- Because now he's come to the crux in his head, to the place in the tragic play where it would say: Enter Oryx.† (source)
- He would often say it when he felt Kathy was focusing on irrelevant details while ignoring the crux of a problem.† (source)
- This was the crux of the biscuit, as my father would have said.† (source)
- Mr. Powell wanted me to work on the bills and the feet, since they were at crux points in the composition, he said.† (source)
- His eyes blazed with intensity, just as they had months ago in New Mexico, when he'd battled us in the streets of Las Cruces and vowed to destroy us.† (source)
- We may be getting to the crux of Hume's philosophy.† (source)
- And now all that feels so unfinished I never got to the crux of it.† (source)
- Here's the crux, Jacob.† (source)
- The essential plot element, the crux upon which the outcome depended, was time.† (source)
- Was this the crux of Denise's error?† (source)
- That was the crux of the problem.† (source)
- The crux of Green Team for many SEALs is CQB, but the crux for Adam was passing the rigid requirements of the Military Free Fall (MFF) portion.† (source)
- And there you have the crux of the situation.† (source)
- After Mortenson showed the requisite images he'd taken of K2, and detailed his failed attempt of seven summers past, he segued awkwardly into the crux of his presentation: He told stories about and showed photos of the eighteen CAI-funded schools now operating, lingering on images of the latest: two schools in the Gultori Valley, built flush with the entrances of caves, so that the shells still falling—now that the Kargil "Conflict" had officially ended—couldn't prevent the thousands of villagers now returning to piece together their shattered homes from sending their children to study in safety.† (source)
- He would have slept where he was tired: maybe in the Las Cruces city park, maybe in an abandoned car out in the desert.† (source)
- That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter.† (source)
- It's the crux of my case.† (source)
- But the crux of the matter was that, in justice, no foreign merchant could possibly be granted better treatment than American merchants.† (source)
- That's the crux of it, isn't it?† (source)
- He slapped the crux of his left arm with two fingers, removed the plastic shield from the needle with his teeth, and clenched his fist.† (source)
- He had stated the crux of the matter.† (source)
- This more than anything was the crux of Van Buren's stance.† (source)
- Penelope Eckert believes that "linguistic style is inseparable from clothing style, hairstyle and lifestyle," and the crux of this stylistic development comes from young people, but especially girls interacting with their peers.† (source)
- Standing in the crux, surrounded by apple or cherry blossoms, you could see the plain beyond the water, and silent sheep-like rolls of cloud smoothly skating over oceans of still-green wheait.† (source)
- But all that was a long time ago—I don't even remember how many years ago that happened in Las Cruces.† (source)
- The crux of that problem involves an ongoing partition of the island between British and Irish jurisdictions, and an equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which wil† (source)
- But here is the very crux of the matter, don't you see?† (source)
- Our time: that's the crux of the matter.† (source)
- There, ironically enough, is the crux of it: guilt.† (source)
- Or that was how it appeared to Tony, who could see that here was the moment that was the crux of the whole affair.† (source)
- I see the crux as whether you trust people to make those kinds of decisions for themselves.
- But his papers were my great crux. (source)
- I mean, are we sure it's still a Hor-crux?† (source)
- It's a crux gemmata" Fache said suddenly.† (source)
- And we are still at the crux of Hume's philosophy of experience.† (source)
- I will arrange to be in Las Cruces, New Mexico, tonight.† (source)
- But I don't see how Las Cruces comes into play.† (source)
- Las Cruces spread out in the valley below—a glowing patchwork of streets and neighborhoods.† (source)
- Las Cruces is out of our way by forty miles—over those mountains.† (source)
- That is the crux of the matter?† (source)
- Half an hour later, with the tent packed, Harry wearing the Hor-crux, and Hermione clutching the beaded bag, they Disapparated.† (source)
- The idea of the locket being stolen was absurd...As for the school: He alone knew where in Hogwarts he had stowed the Horcrux, because he alone had plumed the deepest secrets of that place...And there was still Nagini, who must remain close now, no longer sent to do his bidding, under his protection...But to be sure, to be utterly sure, he must return to each of his hiding places, he must redouble protection around each of his Hor-cruxes...A job, like the quest for the Elder Wand, that he must undertake alone...Which should he visit first, which was in most danger?† (source)
- And when Giannini reached the very crux of the whole chain of events, the role of Dr. Teleborian in the psychiatric clinic in 1991, Salander lapsed into such inexhaustible silence that it seemed she might never utter a word again.† (source)
- This spot is the crux of creation, the center of the tree, the easiest place to jump from one duck—I mean one world—to another.† (source)
- We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups: this is the crux of it.† (source)
- The crux of the matter was the Pennsylvania delegation, for in the preliminary vote three of the seven Pennsylvania delegates had gone against John Dickinson and declared in the affirmative, and it was of utmost interest that one of the three, along with Franklin and John Morton, was James Wilson, who, though a friend and ally of Dickinson, had switched sides to vote for independence.† (source)
- Although the specific qualifications and training tactics of the CQB phase—the crux of Green Team for most SEALs—are classified, "to give you an idea of what Adam had to master, consider where we start them off," says another instructor.† (source)
- That's the crux of almost every fight, the moment when the strength drains out of you and the adrenaline pumps so hard that it becomes a burden and surrender appears like a ghost at ringside.† (source)
- We should stop in Las Cruces.† (source)
- Las Cruces ...† (source)
- Las Cruces.† (source)
- Then we come to the crux.† (source)
- Now, while still pursuing the method of realizing our overall strategic concept, I come to the crux of what I have traveled here to say.† (source)
- The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.† (source)
- The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.† (source)
- Now, while still pursuing the method of realizing our overall strategic concept, I come to the crux of what I have traveled here to say.† (source)
- The crux of the fight was that the non-party members resented the excessive demands made upon the club by the local party authorities through the fraction.† (source)
- But, he thought, assume for a moment that "having," however it is defined, might be the crux of the problem.† (source)
- "That," I said, "is the crux.† (source)
- That's the crux of the matter.† (source)
- And Pius IX his predecessor's motto was Crux upon Crux—that is, Cross upon Cross—to show the difference between their two pontificates.† (source)
- Martin, the eleventh general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.† (source)
- This bit of the path was always the crux of the night's ramble, though, before starting, her apprehensions of danger were not vivid enough to lead her to take a companion.† (source)
- The crux was it was a bit risky to bring him home as eventualities might possibly ensue (somebody having a temper of her own sometimes) and spoil the hash altogether as on the night he misguidedly brought home a dog (breed unknown) with a lame paw (not that the cases were either identical or the reverse though he had hurt his hand too) to Ontario Terrace as he very distinctly remembered, having been there, so to speak.† (source)
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