She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

And this occurs now, at the refrain of Jacoby's song -- at the point, in fact, of the name `` Lizzy '' -- ; ;

But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.

With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible??

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

But it would not be very satisfactory to leave our conclusions at the point just reached.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

There was a pretty thorough silence at that point.

He can ( 1 ) point his car resolutely at the invading fender and force the other driver back into Lane A ; ;

Of course, this isn't taking into consideration the population of Nevada and New York city, but it's the way things look from here at this point.

It is perfectly conceivable that a resumption of atmospheric tests may, at some point in the future, be necessary and even justifiable.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.

He felt himself now, as he himself says in his Confessions, at a crucial point of his life.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members who desire to do so may extend their remarks at this point in the record ; ;

Of these states the average `` change-over '' point ( at which a car is substituted for allowances ) is 13,200 miles per year.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

It is the triumph of rationalism and secular metaphysics which marks the point of no return.

The Gog Magog Hills to the southeast afforded him and all other students a vantage point from which to view the town and university of their dwelling.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

There ought to be a point beyond which we will not allow ourselves to go regardless of what Russia does.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The extent of such interference -- which may be so slight as to be undetectable at any point where either of the stations renders a usable signal, or may be so great as to virtually destroy the service areas of both stations -- depends on many factors, among the principal ones being the distance between the stations, their respective radiated power, and, of particular significance here, the time of day.

Carleton aims throughout its entire teaching program to represent a point of view and a spirit which will contribute to the moral and religious development of its students.

The president's opportunity for influencing education reaches its highest point, as he decides which projects he will cut back, which he will advance by increased allowances or new fund-raising efforts.

This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft in favor of the missile.

there is no one point in a man's career at which he must select either the technical or the managerial path upward.

Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.

The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.