Synonym: pertinent, to the point. Similar words: point, appoint, point to, point out, in point of, appointment, a case in point, to the life. Meaning: adj. having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand.
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151. To some, the initiative and referenda have proliferated to the point that they already have become onerous and impractical.
152. Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list.
153. It may stretch credulity to the point that signs of real abuse are overlooked.
154. Even more to the point, how can it move its gripper to a given position?
155. Conviction to the point of resignation Always be prepared to resign Organizations fail because managers compromise their principles.
156. This seems distinct from the earlier image of a crowd being roused to the point of demanding blood.
157. In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment.
158. Over time, the islands have sunk to the point where many of them are well below sea level.
159. Many women have serious problems and deserve to be treated with respect and offered help that is to the point.
160. It was to the point where I was crying, I was bawling hysterically.
161. And he had always been so meticulous about his appearance, almost to the point of vanity.
162. He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
163. But, more to the point,(http://sentencedict.com/to the point.html) you could determine how long any part of a job took to do.
164. According to this argument, women internalise the male gaze to the point that they survey themselves.
165. Living art forms will finally use technology to bring art to the point where the brain can fully participate in it.
166. Although the Benedictine rule imposed specific obligations upon each individual, it was rarely severe to the point of austerity.
167. Their relationship had become conflict-ridden to the point where each of them was desperately unhappy.
168. The behaviourist approach is repetition and the drilling to the point where the student automatically makes the correct response.
169. Up to the point of overload and pressure, you might say that the inexorable logic of the Hay Fever Theory does hold.
170. The boat would then sail in a circle, dragging the net, until it returned to the point of departure.
171. The tempestuous Belle was nurtured and protected in Cleveland to the point of outright embarrassment for management.
172. More to the point, as resistant strains emerge, the greater becomes our need for new antibiotics to cure sick people.
173. The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry.
174. All four were extraordinarily clever, given to fantasy and melancholy, and impractical to the point of danger.
175. Other spots are characterized by their ability to modify or amplify sound, even to the point of acoustical saturation.
176. In this way the apparently active and positive concept of consent is diluted to the point of near vacuity.
177. I wish to come to the point that the right hon. Gentleman raised specifically about my role in this matter.
178. Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point. Mason Cooley
179. Even more to the point is the actual rarity of defences of the pluralist position.
180. At first glance the answer seems obvious to the point of banality.
More similar words: point, appoint, point to, point out, in point of, appointment, a case in point, to the life, to the full, to the limit, at other times, in the past, to the number of, to the contrary, joint, go into, totally, report, keep on, keep off, for the present, deposit, the proletariat, report on, reporter, keep out of, join, coin, take the place of, reporting.