stretch a point

ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.