at the crossroads

1. Also, at a crossroads. At a point of decision or a critical juncture, as in Because of the proposed merger, the company is standing at the crossroads. This phrase, based on the importance accorded to the intersection of two roads since ancient times, has also been used figuratively just about as long. In the 1500s Erasmus quoted from the Greek Theognis's Elegies (c. 600 b.c.): “I stand at the crossroads.”

Example Sentences

Set in the mid-1950s, slightly after the Gambon “Maigret,” it comprises four feature-length episodes, in the current manner of British mystery adaptations, including a “Night at the Crossroads” that differs greatly from the book and previous film.

From Los Angeles Times

In oscillating between expressing radical emotional honesty and playing with failure in her utilization of irony, she served up a prophetic glimpse of what ultimately became the standard milieu of young people at the crossroads between irony-obsessed Millennials and sincerity-possessed Gen Zers.

From Salon

This summer, Boyle Heights Beat reported on a program that was giving out free air purifiers to residents, a story that was widely shared in a community at the crossroads of five freeways whose residents have high levels of cardiovascular issues.

From Los Angeles Times

Afghan food has been influenced by different cultures across Asia given the country’s location at the crossroads of the famous “Silk Road” trading corridor of centuries past.

From Salon

It’s also one that sits at the crossroads of peace and war, a junction where Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French educator and athlete who established the modern Olympics, believed sports were uniquely positioned to direct traffic.

From Los Angeles Times