All 9 Uses
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Into Thin Air
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- At one point during my research I asked three other people to recount an incident all four of us had witnessed high on the mountain, and none of us could agree on such crucial facts as the time, what had been said, or even who had been present.†
Chpt Intr.crucial = very important
- Several authors and editors I respect counseled me not to write the book as quickly as I did; they urged me to wait two or three years and put some distance between me and the expedition in order to gain some crucial perspective.†
Chpt Intr.
- Inept or disreputable companies have on more than one occasion failed to deliver crucial logistical support-oxygen, for instance-as promised.†
Chpt 2 *
- Physical conditioning is a crucial component of mountaineering, but there are many other equally important elements, none of which can be practiced in a gym.†
Chpt 6
- Linda came to accept my climbing: she saw that it was a crucial (if perplexing) part of who I was.†
Chpt 7
- With respect and obvious affection, Hall referred to him as "my main man" and mentioned several times that he considered Ang Dorje's role crucial to the success of our expedition.†
Chpt 8
- And paying pro sure safe passage deities is considered crucially important to en through the treacherous landscape.†
Chpt 9
- First, he relayed a message to me that some spare batteries were stashed in one of the IMAX tents on the Col; by midafternoon I'd found them, allowing Hall's team to re-establish radio contact with the lower camps, Then Breashears offered his expedition's Supply of oxygen-fifty canisters that had been laboriously carried to 26,000 feet-to the ailing climbers and would-be rescuers on the Col. Even though this threatened to put his $5.5 million film project in jeopardy, he made the crucial gas available without hesitation.†
Chpt 19crucial = very important
- Not only was their expert advice crucial to this volume, but without their support and encouragement I would never have attempted the dubious business of writing for a living, or stuck with it over the years.†
Chpt A.N.
Definitions:
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(1)
(crucial) very important or necessary -- often because it determines how something else will turn out
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)