The epochal breaking of the human code was only a start.
Digital music making represents an epochal rift in music-making styles, a final break with the once common-sense notion of music as something created, in real time, by a skilled practitioner, whose contribution presupposes a long, intimate and tactile relationship with an instrument.
The potential taming of the Atlantic bluefin highlights an epochal shift.
The arc of Steve Jobs' life driving the epochal shift of the iPhone.
Five of his siblings have gravitated here, part of an epochal demographic shift.
Though she reserves probably her highest praise for the plays of Thornton Wilder (like the epochal "Our Town"), she breaks down only one of his classics ("The Skin of Our Teeth"), but quite superbly.
It was Mr. Brooks, after all, who had made the world safe for jokes about Nazis and drag queens in "The Producers" (1968), and had also, you might say, broken the sound barrier in his epochal scene of bean-eating cowboys passing wind around the campfire in "Blazing Saddles" (1974).
On that epochal night of November 9 , 1989 the people made whole what had been broken.
WASHINGTON — President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region's most intractable problem.
