How To Use Punctum In A Sentence
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Goins explained that each eyelid has one punctum, a tiny opening that drains tears away from the eye.
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Forgiveness was the punctum I found in Unforgiven and which is already there in the text, if ambiguously.
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In view of the history of recurring meningitis, search of the child's skin then showed a small punctum in the back of the neck.
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Perhaps studium and punctum merge in one detail: look at my mother's hemline – she never wore a dress that short before or since.
The power of the holiday photo
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Mr. Bowman found that by slitting up the inferior punctum and canaliculus as far as the caruncula, several advantages were gained: -- (1.)
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Barthes writes, ‘However lightning-like it may be, the punctum has, more or less potentially, a power of expansion.’
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It's that punctum thing that Barthes talks about, I think, that's the coil & spring you talk about, and that's not about narrative.
Scale
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A small amount of cloudy fluid was expressed through a central punctum within the swelling.
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The true antecedent of the modern vanishing point is Guidobaldo's punctum concursus (point of concurrence).
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I am equally as scathing at “old lags” doing likewise. punctum on 12 March 2010
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[84] Rough diagram of Bowman's operation, showing the grooved director in the punctum, and the knife in the groove just before it slits up the canaliculus.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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This is also sometimes used for one of the puncta of the climacus (first syllable of tuam, third and sixth neums, etc.) and towards the end of the group neuma on nobis (fifth sign from the end) we see a trigon subpuncte, the last dot of the trigon and the added punctum being drawn out.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The principle of Mr. Bowman's most excellent operation is, that the punctum, canaliculus, and nasal duct resemble in many respects the urethral passage, and in cases of stricture require to be treated on the same principle.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Circa illos stant histriones cum suis instrumentis: In vno autem angulo cuiusdam magni palatij resident Philosophi omnes ad certas horas, et puncta attendentes: et cum deuenitur ad punctumn et horam petitam à philosopho, vnus praeco clamat valentèr.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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He instructs the masters to lecture regularly according to the statutes and to explain the text of Aristotle, "de puncto in punctum," and, holding that fear and reverence are the life-blood of scholastic discipline, he repeats an injunction which we find in 1336, that the students in Arts are to sit not on benches or raised seats, but on (p. 144) the floor, "ut occasio superbiae a juvenibus secludatur.
Life in the Medieval University
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The quilisma is shown on the second syllable of celsa, where we first have a punctum, serving as the starting-point, then the triple curve of the quilisma itself, to which the virga stroke, representing the highest note, is attached.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Singularc est in numo priore, qui an - tiquisstmi est operis, expunctum O se - cundum.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel ..
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The Swede on the cusp of 50 can accept this. punctum on 12 March 2010
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Systemic effects from eye drops can be reduced by occlusion of the punctum (finger pressed on the caruncle, which is felt as a lump at the inner canthus of the eye) or shutting the eyes for several minutes after putting in the drops.
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The studium denotes the cultural or political interpretation of the photograph; the punctum denotes the personally touching detail that establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.
The power of the holiday photo
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As for punctum, I can nearly smell my mother's hair, almost feel the fabric of her dress, sense the lovable vulnerability of my little brother Neil (he's in the striped shirt).
The power of the holiday photo
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In Camera Lucida, Barthes distinguishes between the "studium" and the "punctum" of the photograph.
The power of the holiday photo
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This serves to elevate the lower lid and reposition the lacrimal punctum with significant improvement in tear drainage and distribution.
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They drain out of the eyes through two ducts called punctum or lacrimal ducts, one on each of the upper and lower lids.
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I started this as 120 bpm to the punctum and adjusted as the episemas and text demand.
Deus, Deus Meus: Gregorian English
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This will consequently elevate the lacrimal punctum into a more favourable position so that the tear film will drain into it more readily.
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For Barthes, the catastrophe is unavoidable because time obliterates the punctum, or small space, registered in the photograph.
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Punctum est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus.
Plutarch's Morals
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It's all punctum – if there's any studium there you can have it for free and use it for a boring sociological thesis.
The power of the holiday photo
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She is a good writer, though a bit of a smarty pants using words like "punctum" instead of "point".
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