Sentences with phrase «epochal events»
That may be the biggest hurdle of all, given the unfamiliar nature of the slowly building problem — the antithesis of epochal events like Pearl Harbor, Sputnik and 9/11 that triggered sweeping enterprises.
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Barroca draws from a wide - range of historical and documentary material — photographs, videos, and sound recordings — produced at the time of major epochal events.
So if the new theory is right, and the oceans were separated much earlier — then what triggered all of those epochal events?
The question is then is this kind of a one time epochal event that's beyond the level of even those big things.
What is happening at East Anglia is an epochal event.
Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.
(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.
That was an audacious epochal event.
The 2005 Performa was anchored by Marina Abramovic's seven - day re-creation at the Guggenheim Museum of great performance pieces, a grueling, mad and epochal event.
Featuring images from the 1973 fashion show «The Battle of Versailles,» the exhibition showcases Cunningham's unique perspective on this epochal event in fashion history.
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Interestingly, he used the terms «epochal occasion,» «event» and «droplets of existence,» but never «actual entity» or «eternal object,» suggesting that he still may have been working largely from Religion in the Making.
However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the epochal theory of time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's event ontology.
The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.
It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.
Following this catastrophic event, her work underwent an epochal shift as she more closely explored time, place and geography.
As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.