crux
IPA: krˈʌks
noun
- The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
- The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
- A puzzle or difficulty.
- (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
- (heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.
- (astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
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Examples of "crux" in Sentences
- That is the crux of the dispute.
- That is the crux of the discussion.
- Alas this is the crux of the matter.
- This indeed is the crux of the matter.
- Interpretation is the crux of the matter.
- But what's the crux is what's considered "difficult".
- Discussing the listing shows is the crux of the matter.
- Let's keep the heading title to the crux of the matter.
- The crux of the matter is what the essential doctrine is.
- The immediate crux of the matter is the source of those prescriptions.
- The entire crux of the matter is whether parapsychology is a field of science.
- Nor does the Latin word crux automatically refer to a cross while patibulum refer to the cross-beam.
- As for the main crux of your question I view commenting on blogs as inherently different from writing a blog.
- The crux is that people are paid, mostly, to do difficult and unpleasant things which they wouldn't otherwise do.
- The delicious dramatic crux is that the more precarious Mary's prospects for survival become, the more unnerved Elizabeth appears.
- The crux is that few banks have been incentivised to voluntarily contribute comprehensive, high-quality information, limiting the scale of such efforts.
- The main crux of our authors argument seems to be in this passage: To kill a reader of this newspaper would be to kill a creature richly aware of its environment and full of beliefs and desires, including the desire to continue living.
- Updates, 5/16: "It seems silly and grandiose to lavish praise on a movie whose dramatic crux is the recording of a demo tape, and there is some danger that the critical love showered on Once will come to seem a bit disproportionate," warns AO Scott.
- While the main crux of the discussion was about the abysmal treatment received, mention was made of computers, and that they are subject to search and seizure, as are jump drives, external harddrives, and all other electronic data storage devices, and they need virtually zero reason or cause to do it.
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