How to Use more to the point in a Sentence

more to the point

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• The same piercing pain, but now around the eyes, or above the eyes, or more to the point, behind the eyes.
  — Eduardo Halfon, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2021
• And more to the point, who in her right mind would want to mechanize them?
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Yes — but more to the point of the actual movie that follows, not quite like this.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2021
• But not everyone wants (or, more to the point, can afford) to live in one.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• And those costs can add up — or, more to the point, subtract from your long-term investment goals.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
• The risk for celebrities, or, more to the point, their stylists, is that sometimes these efforts can come across as, well, costume-y.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2021
• The bad blood isn't over the soccer game, but what's going on—or, more to the point, won't go on—outside the stadium in Munich.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 23 June 2021
• And more to the point — what drove those comedians to devalue themselves in the first place?
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• And, more to the point, who needs binary divisions of gender?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Or, more to the point, the ability of its many design teams to lavishly re-create a bygone world.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• Or perhaps, more to the point, something has been added—the gigantic closeup—which blunts the magic that wafts out to even the lousiest seats in the opera house after the lights go down and the first bars of the overture sound.
  — Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• But more to the point, it is filled with lyrics that feel true in their sustained confrontation with the album’s main subject: shattering absence.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 June 2023
• Their communication on help and switches wasn't perfect, but more to the point, the system was overtaxed.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• And, more to the point, are wallets or super apps the best way to manage the relationship between people and their economic avatars?
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Actually, more to the point, that the Miami Heat centers keep things spotless.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
• Posocco, too, posted the clip on Instagram, though his caption was more to the point, using only the cowboy emoji.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 5 June 2021
• To frame it in those terms creates the false impression that there is, in the end, no choice — an act of self-exoneration and, more to the point, disempowerment.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• But his judgment in the immediate aftermath of the scandal, reported by Robert Harris, a chronicler of the episode, was more to the point.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• In other words, your pandemic booster is about to become as routine as your physical exam or—more to the point—your flu shot.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• Or, more to the point, the growing controversy there, after an institution that had been among the soundest anywhere for 25 years lost the plot on inflation.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Perhaps more to the point, the quasi-military National Guard has not been able to bring down Mexico’s stubbornly high homicide rate.
  — Maria Verza, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2022
• But more to the point, the musical abounds in theatrical riches that are on brilliant display in this production, directed by Kent Gash.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• But more to the point of this article, these promises and anecdotal endorsements are misleading, Dr. Gohara says.
  — Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are many, many metropolitan areas below the national average and, more to the point, at or below the rate of inflation.
  — Patrick Mullane, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• With the assumption that cheerfulness is a measurable quality and that, more to the point, a person is guaranteed to be the most reliable assessor of her or his own cheer?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps more to the point, Biden has emerged as one of the most progressive presidents in recent memory, despite his uninspiring affect.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Or maybe not, according to Boston Strangler, the Hulu movie that revisits the case — and more to the point, the work of these two reporters to identify and capture the culprit — in the name of 21st century true crime entertainment.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• While these records have not been physically destroyed, Putin's actions amount to a profound effort to erase stories of human experience and, more to the point, suffering.
  — Cristina Florea, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• By the late ‘60s the album-as-work-of-art became gospel for producers and consumers alike, due to efforts by the Beatles and the Beach Boys — more to the point, Wilson singularly — to prove the inherent conceptual merit of the album.
  — Cecilia Gigliotti, Longreads, 6 Mar. 2022
• Second, English loves weird little exceptions — or, more to the point, English-speaking people expect weird little exceptions (like the spellings of weird and people), so English just keeps getting them.
  — James Harbeck, The Week, 2 May 2022

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024