Example sentences of "almost [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 2 | Solowka remembers band discussions turning into arguments because Charman took almost every point as a personal attack on himself . |
| 3 | ‘ John Thelwall is a very warm hearted honest man , ’ Coleridge wrote to Josiah Wade , ‘ and disagreeing , as we do , on almost every point of religion , of morals , of politics , and of philosophy ; we like each other uncommonly well . ’ |
| 4 | To Lienhardt , oral Dinka language can be as effective for intellectual purposes as academic , written English : ‘ at almost every point the Dinka language allows for a wide range of moral and intellectual discriminations without leading into a seemingly autonomous world of abstractions . |
| 5 | Opportunities and Limitations in Religious Broadcasting , a collection of articles by 25 communicators from 14 different countries , is ‘ designed as a Speakers ’ Corner with room enough for representatives from almost every point on the Christian compass ' , according to the publishers . |
| 6 | This was , of course , an extreme statement of the principles of French colonial policy and in practice it was impossible not to export French culture , including political culture , at almost every point at which French administration touched on the life of Vietnam . |
| 7 | She felt almost sorry for Professor M. L. Vaughan , who was obviously in the same rank as her self-confident great-uncle , and differed from him on almost every point . |
| 8 | In the church scene the words of the Anglican matins are made to allude heavily to Grimes 's troubles at almost every point : " we have erred and strayed from thy ways " just as Ellen notices the tear in the apprentice 's coat ; " 0 Lord open Thou our lips " with Ellen 's " John , what are you trying to hide ? " ; and finally " Amen " as answer to Ellen 's " We 've failed " , which Peter takes up literally in his most crucial phrase " So be it , and God have mercy upon me ! " [ 18 ] . |