How To Use Epochal In A Sentence
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From Ken Burns's epochal series "The Civil War" to "The American Experience," his baritone is the voice of the past for two generations of PBS viewers.
Rethinking Washington
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But according to the authors, the epochal events failed to alter how most high administration officials understood the world.
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Still, the industry restructuring may turn out to be an epochal event, possibly ushering in an age of stability and an end to trade protectionism.
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These epochal developments have not commanded much official attention.
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True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you?
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Scholars who seek to move beyond these epochal events may encounter obstacles as they negotiate the oral archive.
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Here’s how brazen Mr. Rumsfeld was when he invoked Hitler’s appeasers to score his cheap points: Since Hitler was photographed warmly shaking Neville Chamberlain’s hand at Munich in 1938, the only image that comes close to matching it in epochal obsequiousness is the December 1983 photograph of Mr. Rumsfeld himself in Baghdad, warmly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in full fascist regalia.
September 2006
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The current information revolution can be termed as the fifth epochal event since the birth of the human species.
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Heidegger suggests two paths toward understanding 'expropriation': the event supersedes epochal-destinal unconcealment in such a way that, firstly, "it can be retained neither as being nor as time; it is, so to speak, a neutrale tantum, the neutral 'and' in the title "Time and Being.'
Enowning
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Shortly after Columbus's epochal voyage, Magellan circumnavigated the globe.
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No matter how the case ends, the court's decision to accept the recorded testimony from the two children as corroborative evidence is epochal.
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The death of Ronald Reagan has proved an oddly epochal event, not just in America but across the world.
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Epochal angels: direction of the affaires of each generation and root race.
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On August 28, 1826, following an epochal storm in the White Mountains, the family perished under an enormous rockslide.
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In the angry, dark days of the Revolution, and in the epochal political struggles that followed, the foes of Robert Morris denounced him as the leader of the “aristocratical” party, seeking to restore the social order that the American patriots had done so much to overturn.
Robert Morris
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Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation.
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The Charlatans' frontman provided guest vocals on their epochal debut, but times have changed.
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These, too, we've come to expect, and if they weren't around we'd have reason to wonder if the event itself were as epochal as it's supposed to be.
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But this is a momentous, perhaps epochal, political shift.
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He said an epochal flood ‘swallowed up’ the mountainous island.
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Later, he embarked on a revised edition of this epochal work with a masterful correlation of stethoscopic sounds and diseases of the chest documented by postmortem findings.
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I'd say this thing is moving toward an epochal confrontation.
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By exacerbating the contradiction between self-determination and self-abasement, the way was cleared for an epochal resolution.
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If Bobbitt's predictions prove correct, The Shield of Achilles will rightly be seen as an epochal work.
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The International Monetary Fund played a crucial role in many of the epochal events of the 1990s.
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The Mahabharata War was the epochal event of ancient India.
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Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal:
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Well, but of this God Abraham asks -- in what I must continue to call the epochal sentence in the
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
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Eleven years before the epochal events in Germany, a seismic change was taking place in China
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epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill
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That Danny Whitten song is actually rather lovely, whereas the Pistols, epochal as they were in cultural terms, were pretty much just hoary old barre-chords and some gorblimey vocals.
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It does this specifically by a sentence coming up on the screen after the close of the action, saying that it took another 140 years before the epochal changes reoccurred, in the French Revolution.
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What he lacks is the charisma of an Olivier, whose epochal Coriolanus is dazzlingly evoked in two pages of Kenneth Tynan's Curtains.
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They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution.
Robert Morris
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Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation.
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The word epochal is overstated, but it felt like it then and it has subsequently proved to be that.
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As with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the launching of Sputnik, epochal events can briefly change all the rules of the political game.
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He recalled the Exodus and other epochal events in Western history, claiming a similar importance for the present struggle.
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He followed the advance of the railways that abbreviated time and conquered space as they unified America, but he knew that these technological changes had been anticipated, with epochal gradualness, by nature itself.
Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
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Now comes not a rally in the dollar but a decline that some are describing as the start of a decisive, massive and epochal shift of support away from the currency - and from America.
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Other defining moments have been more domestic than epochal.
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Among the industry’s truly protean figures, he ably filmed every type of genre picture imaginable; weathered several epochal shifts in moviemaking technique (example: with the talkie ascendant, he effortlessly transformed from zealous location realist into sound-stage artifice reveler); and helped shape the screen personas of Gable, Cooper, Tracy, and Fairbanks (and swell the bosoms of Shearer, Bow, Bergman, and Velez).
Cover to Cover
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Then, in an epochal labor-and-management accord, the two sides stopped exploiting each other - and began exploiting the fans.
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Both bands offered enigmatic singles and an epochal debut followed by an almost trad sophomore classic and a schizo follow-up.
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The British foreign secretary who announced, on the eve of the first world war, that the lamps were going out all over Europe and would not be lit again in his lifetime made an on-the-spot epochal judgment that was vindicated by history.
George Osborne's autumn statement speaks to the public mood | Martin Kettle
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I'm certain they had a Chess channel, where epochal matches of the past were recreated in hushed reverential tones.
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Such are aural resources that a Tennysonian syllabic ironist like Dickens can elsewhere mobilize, and in the context of epochal dissonance rather than the restorative harmony of Little Dorrit, when, in describing the roar of a locomotive in Dombey and
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The epochal event of the post-war world, the winning of the Cold War, is little understood and seldom discussed.