Sentences with phrase «something epochal»

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The theory of epochal time states that the genesis of an actual occasion does not take place in physical (clock) time; it creates a quantum of physical time: in every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension; but that act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming which correspond to the extensive divisibility of what has become» (PR 69/107).

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

Her Tereza is the film's stabilizing force, whereas Lena Olin's Sabina is an icon of bowler - hatted libertinage; in one epochal scene, Tereza gets Sabina to pose for some nude photographs, and something subterranean stirs between these two very different women.

Something of their epochal tone appears already in Mutu's title, Perhaps the Moon Will Save Us.

It's something we discerned again and again in the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art's epochal Willem de Kooning retrospective, which closed in early January.

It's all well and good to posit a black swan like a super-volcano, an epochal oscillation or an asteroid or something, but the question remains: how plausible is that, really?