crux

The relationship between the man and the two women in his life is the crux of the story.

And in many ways, that is the crux of the matter.

And then she got down to the crux of it.

This is the crux of the matter and nothing else.

This is a big deal, the crux of the issue.

In fact, that might actually be the crux of the matter.

But it was important, a crux in company development, so she had to go.

To me that this is the crux of the issue.

Now listen to me, for we come to the crux.

The crux of the problem is how to create it.

Remember that number; it is the crux of the matter.

That, it seemed to him, was the real crux of the matter.

Anyway, now we come to the crux of the whole thing.

That's the crux of what I'm trying to tell you.

But that was the real crux of the matter, when she came right down to it.

Which left the figure in the middle: the crux of the whole design.

How he gets all this is the crux of his story.

Did he set his house in order forms the crux.

"But I see now it is the crux of the problem."

This, he felt sure, would be the crux of the whole thing.

This is the crux of our policy. As such, it calls for special attention.

The crux of the problem, if you can call it that, is love.

"In fact, that is perhaps the crux of what I must say to you now."

"That is the crux of our new political thinking," he said.

Here lies the crux of the situation we are in today.