Yet even here, there was recently a seminal statement from Najaf by the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the most influential Shia cleric in Iraq, proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, in which all people had equal freedom to participate and disagreeing with those close to Iran who want Shia to go to Syria to fight for Assad alongside Hezbollah.
Not just a monumental scene in a great, enduring story, but a seminal statement about humanity – made palpable thanks to the dogged realism of the epic's long tradition.
But he acknowledged that his stress on the breakdown of inner-city institutions, as opposed to government inaction and white racism, vividly departed from the Kerner report--a seminal statement of liberal views on race.
This is what it means to be part of a scholarly community, as the seminal, founding statement of the AAUP implied.
"For the first time, students were thinking of themselves as an agency of social change," wrote Tom Hayden, the social and political activist, in his book, "Inspiring Participatory Democracy". Hayden was the principal architect of the seminal Port Huron Statement, the 1962 document laying out a vision for an equally shared democracy.
In Geneva, Formula One came in for further ridicule on Tuesday after two meetings billed as seminal ended without any statement about the future of the sport.
"This was the most exciting game I have ever seen in all of sports," the Yankees' principal owner, George Steinbrenner, said in a statement, and the seminal moment belonged to Jeter, the captain, whom he called "an inspiration for all of our nation's youth".
With this inclusive and diversity ethos, now is the right time for us to move forward and together rewrite Max Weber's seminal 'Science as a Vocation' statement into a new page of Open Science as a Vocation for embracing this de-colonial brave new world.
Wilde was famously an advocate of aestheticism, inscribing his seminal novel "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" with the statement: "All art is quite useless," a dramatic way of saying that what's compelling to look at needn't serve any useful purpose.
The seminal idea of Gl §46 was the observation that a statement of number (e.g., "There are eight planets") is an assertion about a concept.
