She is a good writer, though a bit of a smarty pants using words like "punctum" instead of "point".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Heart Lynn Crosbie] Reference

The Swede on the cusp of 50 can accept this. punctum on 12 March 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [STARSHIP – “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” | FreakyTrigger] Reference

The Blakean punctum needs interpretive attention, not just editorial fiddling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

I am equally as scathing at “old lags” doing likewise. punctum on 12 March 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [STARSHIP – “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” | FreakyTrigger] Reference

Etymologically related to punctuality, via the Latin punctum, which means “point.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

I started this as 120 bpm to the punctum and adjusted as the episemas and text demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deus, Deus Meus: Gregorian English] Reference

In Camera Lucida, Barthes distinguishes between the "studium" and the "punctum" of the photograph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The power of the holiday photo] Reference

Besides, that punctum stans, if it signify anything, being not quantum, finite or infinite cannot belong to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

It's all punctum – if there's any studium there you can have it for free and use it for a boring sociological thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The power of the holiday photo] Reference

In fact we may expect a form reduced to an axis, a few ramenta, a frondose dilatation, and one punctum of reproductive organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Perhaps studium and punctum merge in one detail: look at my mother's hemline – she never wore a dress that short before or since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The power of the holiday photo] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scale] Reference

This is not what Barthes meant, exactly – for Barthes, the photographer is absent from consideration in the experience of punctum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposed | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Ille tamen Muni qui in venture erat punctum temporis quo humor vitalis jam emissum iret providens, viam per quam semen intrare posset pedibus obstruxit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

It was the punctum of a photograph that touched me, that disrupted me, in the recent flurry of news and discussion that surrounded the death of Anna Nicole Smith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposed | Her Bad Mother] Reference

We must consider as the origin of a new individual and true punctum saliens of its life the moment when the parents begin to love each other — to fancy each other, as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [The power of the holiday photo] Reference

On the first two syllables of Gaudeamus we have the familiar punctum dot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Similarly we have for the punctum, besides the dot form, that of a short horizontal line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Or (to the point with Horace and with Pulci) 'Omne tulit punctum, quae miscuit utile dulci.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Juan] Reference

The first sign in the same neuma is also an episematic torculus followed by another long punctum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The tears, entering the canal at its punctum, are carried along till they pass out at the fistulous opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

The affected lid is then drawn gently downwards on the cheek, so as to evert and thoroughly expose the lower punctum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

They're the punctum that pierces your spirit and defines a season, a year, a decade, a small colorful speck of your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weddingbee] Reference

Mr. Bowman found that by slitting up the inferior punctum and canaliculus as far as the caruncula, several advantages were gained: -- (1.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference