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Klimt
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crux

Postby Klimt » Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:00 am

1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.

2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

The twisting agony of it--that he could make capital out of the very crux of all her suffering.
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Postby Slava » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:51 pm

If one is morbidly interested in the heart of all matters, would we say they have a cruxifixation?
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