Sentences with phrase «cardinal points of a compass»

Orient the genres of literature according to the cardinal points of a compass.

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To distinguish these worlds I shall first use the four narrative genres identified by Northrop Frye.6 Frye has laid out all of Western literature in a great imaginary circle that has four cardinal points much like those of a compass.

And so when one reads the actual documents that the Council produced, especially the four Constitutions on liturgy, revelation, the Church, and the Church in the modern world, which Pope Benedict recently called «the four cardinal points of our guiding compass,» one finds all sorts of beauty, goodness, and truth, authority, nobility, gravity, and unity.

Incidentally, and speaking of cardinal points, if the L = left trick doesn't work for you, you can always find left and right with a compass provided you're not too close to the pole: according to Wikipedia, «Facing the sun, before noon, the north pointer of the compass points to the left hand.