Farah Khan

Shirin Farhad' is a romantic tale of an unmarried couple who feel they can live together forever. Having crossed the marriageable age, what happens to them forms the crux of the story. The movie has several comic sequences with an emotional touch to it.

Indian Director

Karyn Kusama

I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in front of the camera ultimately has to do with simply seeing more human perspectives.

American Director

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

English Poet

Robert Kazinsky

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

English Actor

Travis Bradberry

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

American Author

Roberto Benigni

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Italian Actor

Johann Georg Hamann

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

German Philosopher

Ralphie May

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

American Comedian

Katya Zamolodchikova

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

American Entertainer

N. Bhaskara Rao

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

Indian Politician

Use 'crux' to summarize or emphasize the main argument in discussions or debates.

Usage in Debate

'Crux' signals that what follows is of utmost importance to the understanding of the whole issue.

Emphasis on Importance

In literature, mention the 'crux' when a main character faces a dilemma or revelation that changes the story's direction.

Dramatic Revelations

Recognize the 'crux' as a major turning point which is crucial for the plot development in any narrative.

Story Development

Use 'crux' to describe a particularly tough part of an athletic contest or event, where the outcome is often decided.

Sports Challenge

In climbing, 'crux' is technical jargon for the hardest move or sequence on a climbing route.

Climbing Context

Know that 'Crux' in astronomy is not just any star pattern, but a specific, easily recognizable constellation.

Specific Constellation

Remember that the constellation Crux is visible only in the Southern Hemisphere, relevant for regional context.

Hemisphere Awareness

 groups yes you do need to be concerned about harm you do need a psychology justice but it really helps to organize a group if you can have subgroups and if those subgroups have some internal structure and if you have some ideology that tells people to suppress their carnality to pursue higher nobler ends and now we get to the crux of the disagreement between liberals and

The moral roots of...

 But it helps to organize a group if you have subgroups, and if those subgroups have some internal structure, and if you have some ideology that tells people to suppress their carnality -- to pursue higher, nobler ends. Now we get to the crux of the disagreement between liberals and liberals reject three of these foundations.

Jonathan Haidt: The...

 It's actually more traumatic than some of the big issues that I work on in the world -- entertaining my kids at dinner. But what it does is it connects them here in the present with me, but it also -- and this is the crux of transgenerational thinking ethics -- it sets them up to how they're going to interact with their kids

3 ways to plan for the...

 And this was Henry's rule, he said, "Look, everyone is willing to give you something. They're ready to give you something for whatever it is they're hungry for." And that's the crux of it. If you don't want to be deceived, you have to know, what is it that you're hungry for? And we all kind of hate to admit it.

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 and a good process to come to the moral crux of political decisions. And although you may not be in that group, someone of your age, someone of your gender, someone from your location and someone with your background would be in that room. The decisions made by these people would build on the wisdom of crowds.

What if we replaced...

 And the tools, the resources that we use to build a game layer, are game dynamics themselves. And so the crux of this presentation is going to go through four really important game dynamics, really interesting things, that, if you use consciously, you can use to influence behavior,

Seth Priebatsch:...

 to raise families and form cohesive social groups. So here, all of a sudden, we're looking at a map of the human heart. And it reveals to us, suddenly, the crux of the matter. What we've done is we've created economies. We've created systems,

Tim Jackson: An economic...

 same place the deep me to debase exploit and oppress groups of humans so call me crazy but I propose to address the crux of America's race problem at large to address in specific the troubling product of race known as black on black

Should “blackness”...

 And they're doing what they think is best. And that's the basis on which we have to talk with them. So that's the third one, anger. And it brings me to the crux of what's going on, or what I perceive as going on, in the world today,

Fighting with...

 the buddhism that is really their sort of crux of their lot of their life and this was lhasa and this shook poori hill was very important to them in that this is like where the tibetan school of medicine was