Sentences with phrase «pole star»
The phrase "pole star" refers to a bright star that is almost directly above the Earth's North or South Pole. It helps people find their way by acting as a fixed point in the night sky. Full definition
When toward the end of his life he was awarded the prestigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize, von Balthasar referred to Mozart as the «immovable pole star» around which circled Bach and Schubert («the Great and Little Bears»).
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The Coen Bros return to the 1950s (Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Hudsucker Proxy) to recount a batty tale of a Hollywood fixer and a tent - pole star gone missing.
An achiever who explains can be your pole star.
Then there is the pole star — and patron saint — for all Catholics involved in political life: Sir Thomas More.
Columbus speculated that the pole star itself pulled the compass needle to the north.
In Heaven, the equinoxes shift; even the pole stars change places, changing what we trust and rely on, believe, what we are sure we know.
You look and see, as you expect to, Polaris, now the North Star, the certainty of Heaven; but the brilliant Thuban, five thousand years ago, was once the pole star.
«Death and transcendence always have been the pole stars of Richard Prince's art.
Which is the first commandment to follow, the pole star, the guiding signal compared to which all else is noise, the issue to eclipse all issues?