(n.) The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
(n.) That which serves to direct.
(n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the problem for Labour is their record on immigration is not exactly the cynosure of all eyes.
(2) As for the Papanicolaou smear, it can no longer be regarded as the "Cinderella of cytology"; it is in fact the present-day cynosure in the laboratory.
(3) Noting the presence of British actor Naomie Harris, the cynosure of all cameras, the recently separated Sexwale quipped: "I came alone, you know."
(4) This paper offers an analysis of visible saints as social cynosures as a means of exploring critical cultural psychiatric issues.
Lodestar
Definition:
(n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
(n.) Same as Loadstar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as one New Labour shibboleth after another, from nationalisation to higher taxes on the rich, has fallen under the pressure of the crisis, it has certainly underlined the price of the corporate embrace that has been its lodestar from its inception (and the Conservatives', naturally, long before that).
(2) After all, allowing those in work to keep a larger stretch of income before the state sees fit to withhold some of it is supposed to be a governing lodestar.
(3) Ever since Ronald Reagan famously dubbed government “the problem, not the solution” in his historic 1980 presidential campaign, Republican money, Republican leadership and Republican policy have all clustered around the lodestar faith that the basic operations of government – and the existence of a public sphere – were nothing less than a metaphysical affront to the one true faith of unalloyed laissez-faire.
(4) But optimism is his lodestar: "Of course I'm optimistic," he says.
(5) But a recent Resolution Foundation commission report on the minimum wage, chaired by Prof Sir George Bain, the first chairman of the Low Pay Commission (LPC), recommended a rate at 60% of average earnings as a "reasonable lodestar".
(6) Anguished rumours abounded on Twitter and elsewhere as South Africa contemplated the loss of its moral lodestar, an event that will be a national trauma .
(7) Her political lodestars, she says, "are people like Arundhati Roy.
(8) We describe a Drosophila maternal-effect gene, lodestar, mutations in which cause chromatin bridges at anaphase.
(9) lodestar maps to cytological position 84D13-14, and we identified the lodestar gene in germ-line transformation experiments by the ability of a genomic fragment to restore fertility to females homozygous for lodestar mutations.
(10) "The first was that the Conservatives have no ideological lodestar ...
(11) Two of those sons later became estranged from the family, and were eventually bought out of Koch Industries, but for Charles and David, the rightwing free market ideology was their lodestar.
(12) Brecht and the ballet: these, you could say, were Gaskill’s twin lodestars and from them both he learned the importance in theatre of creating stage pictures that combined meaning and beauty.
(13) Undergraduates' discontent matters, because economics has long been the west's political lodestar.
(14) lodestar encodes a potential nucleoside triphosphate binding protein, which is a novel member of the D-E-A-H box family of proteins.
(15) If there is melancholy in the tributes it is because the lodestar of that diaspora has gone missing.
(16) Antibodies raised against the lodestar gene product detect a protein that undergoes cell cycle-dependent changes in distribution in the embryo.
(17) It is restricted to the region enclosed by the spindle envelope during metaphase and anaphase; but by telophase, the lodestar protein is contained entirely within the reforming nucleus.