at the point of
Preposition
Meaning
at the point of
Alternative form of on the point of
Synonyms
Examples
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.