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a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions
he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own
the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out -
a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
my point of departure was San Francisco
one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him
How To Use point of departure In A Sentence
- The point of departure in this work is the religious individual's sense of estrangement from Western culture.
- Let's take'Das Kapital'as a point of departure for our survey of Marxism.
- my point of departure was San Francisco
- My point of departure could hardly be more different. Times, Sunday Times
- I calmed him down by saying the project isn't about truth, it's about representation, and the point of departure is the cataloguing of it, not going back and remeasuring every painting.
- It is a hermeneutic which cannot operate in isolation from the community of reason, and this, I believe, marks an important point of departure from Calvin and the Puritan party in England.
- He takes the idea of personal freedom as his point of departure.
- He glances out his office and spots someone headed toward Fiction, meaning another reader will soon discover the picklock words of Flannery O'Connor or Joseph Conrad, another person will soon escape the Delta, using one of Wise's libraries as the point of departure. Archive 2006-09-01
- It provides a useful point of departure for a historian of the present-day civil rights movement in the Soviet Union.
- And the conceptual process, though allied to and often taking its point of departure from the percept, represents a different mode of experience, a different way of apprehending the universe. 2009 February | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
