But the agreement, signed in Zimbabwe this week under the aegis of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, is a dramatic turning point all the same.
It is a dramatic turning point whose intensity and psychological depth would be impossible to achieve with the spoken word alone.
But because the turnout was so low — only 23percentt of eligible voters cast ballots — the vote, rather than being a dramatic turning point, underscored the divided political atmosphere in Puerto Rico and the long road ahead for any resolution of the island's status.
"The Big Wheel" was a dramatic turning point.
August also happens to be the month of the notoriously meaningless Ames, Iowa, straw poll, which in 2011 was portrayed as a dramatic turning point by the victor, Representative Michele Bachmann, who said afterward, "What we saw happen today is the very first step toward taking the White House in 2012, and you have just sent a message that Barack Obama will be a one-term president".
A dramatic turning point comes when the Ladies, who have been advised to affect a more masculine demeanor, rebel midgame and ostentatiously apply makeup and feminine accouterments.
In the slow-moving world of demographics, that felt like a dramatic turning point: "peak toil", if you like.
The year 2010 however marked a dramatic turning point in our perception of associated risks.
The two parallel tracks meet at a dramatic turning point in the exhibit and in history.
Once a constitution is written, and endorsed in a referendum in the autumn of this year (though a six-month delay has been provided for), another election, with luck at the year's end, should produce a still more representative assembly and a more obviously legitimate government.A very long grindIt would be naive to expect a dramatic turning-point.
