Literary notes about central (AI summary)
The term "central" in literature serves a wide variety of functions, from denoting conceptual importance to signifying a pivotal geographic or structural position. It can refer to the core of an argument or idea, as seen with the discussion of the "most central of all philosophic problems" [1] or the "central point in these scattered labors" [2]. At the same time, it locates both physical and metaphorical spaces, such as in references to architectural features like a "great central hall" [3] or a distinctive "central spire" [4], as well as to regions like Central America [5, 6] or Central Park [7]. Additionally, the word is employed in technical and administrative contexts—indicating central processing units [8] or being part of the designation for committees and organizational bodies [9, 10]—thus underscoring its versatility in highlighting essential or focal elements in a narrative.
- I myself have come, by long brooding over it, to consider it the most central of all philosophic problems, central because so pregnant.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - This is the connecting thought, the central point in these scattered labors.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen - It was a big place, with a great central hall, two smaller writing-rooms, and then two corridors from which opened eight or nine bedrooms.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - There is the cathedral of Rouen, which would be entirely Gothic if it did not bathe the tip of its central spire in the zone of the Renaissance.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - This was an extremely ambitious undertaking, considering the conditions then prevailing in Central America.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - I remember especially the walks we all took together every day in Central Park, the only part of the city that was congenial to me.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - [in computers] central processing unit, CPU; arithmetic and logical unit, ALU.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - On behalf of the National Woman's Rights Central Committee, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President ; SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Secretary .
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper - Central Committee .—Paulina W. Davis, Chairman; Sarah H. Earle, Secretary; Wendell Phillips, Treasurer; Mary A. W. Johnson, Wm.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
