Literary notes about points (AI summary)
Across diverse literary works, “points” is used to signify many things: numeric markers, key ideas, places of vulnerability, and even literal tips or corners. For instance, the term denotes a scoring measure—“One hundred points is a round” [1]—as well as questions of argumentation—“Are the following points well considered?” [2]. Elsewhere, it references both physical targets—like “weak points in the enemy organization” [3]—and explicit directions, as with compass points [4]. Sometimes it merges the figurative and literal, as when a person “points again, in great agitation, at the two words” [5] or when confronting “the points of so many swords” [6]. In all these usages, “points” draws attention to pivotal spots or concepts, underscoring their importance to the narrative or argument at hand.
- One hundred points is a round.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - Are the following points well considered?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - However, weak points in the enemy organization can and do provide targets for morale operations.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger - And neither land nor the four cardinal points of the compass, could be distinguished.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - He points again, in great agitation, at the two words.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - He put on a linen coat of mail, however, remarking at the same time, that it would avail him little against the points of so many swords.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
