The troubles and complexities that would follow both those events were seemingly cloaked by momentous victories — encrypted, as it were, by the tides of change.
So instead I turn my fleeting obsessions into momentous occasions, seemingly earth-shattering, and it gives my life a point at least for a while.
For, how can our understanding of art as aesthetics be just as essential to our current historical self-understanding as are the dominance of science, the growing influence of technology, the ubiquitous discussions of "culture," and the withdrawal of gods from our history four seemingly much larger and more momentous historical developments?
He's never been a particularly cool guy: a teenage go-kart prodigy from Stevenage turned Formula 1 world champion, Hamilton is undoubtedly a momentous talent and seemingly a nice bloke, but a trailblazer, a pioneer, a maverick, an arbiter of sex, and style and controversy, he is not.
It's a hypothesis that shows that a small event can have momentous consequences and that seemingly stable systems can behave in highly unpredictable ways.
The 20th century economic history of Argentina is a great drama filled with momentous actors, like Perón, and seemingly full of missed opportunities and extreme policy choices.
A Martha Graham dancer is like a baseball player at bat: taut with nerves, a seemingly still form quivers on the brink of something momentous.
Aided by an infusion of cash from the United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Biathlon, the sport's governing body, has made changes as momentous as hiring a new head coach, and as seemingly trivial as tinkering with the way that athletes hold their rifles.
And the region's leaders always attempt to distract attention from these rows with the announcement of seemingly bold economic pacts, which, on close examination, are not quite as momentous as they sound.This year's jamboree, in Laos's sleepy capital, followed the script to the letter.
But something as seemingly trivial as her reluctance to accept Noah's loose change grows into a momentous issue when she apparently pockets a $20 bill.
