Cynosure

I was the cynosure of every eye.

I was the cynosure of all eyes.

The Scotland Yard men were the cynosure of all eyes.

let faith be your cynosure to walk by

Meanwhile the fair young Queen, in her halls of state, walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it.

With anglophobia driving out anglophilia, the king – as during the Seven Years War – came to represent the very cynosure of patriotic zeal.