Sentence examples for single pivotal from inspiring English sources

In a single, pivotal scene, she delivers a seething exhortation to Leonardo DiCaprio's federal agent that mingles clear-eyed command and paranoiac reverie.

She used it to devastating effect in "The Descendants" and here again, in a single, pivotal scene, she helps to jolt the film out of its coy zaniness into a zone of real pain and frustration.

An Italian composer set to music an episode in English history using a libretto based on a truncated version of an Italian translation – stick with it – of a play by a German who lived two centuries after the events described and made up the single pivotal plot twist.

We can look for a single, pivotal instance when things changed for the better, but to do so would ignore the work that has gone into turning things around as far as they have (which is to say that this is the end of the first phase of the redevelopment of the England team).

Despite what popular media might suggest, many paradigm shifts don't happen in a single, pivotal, "eureka" moment.

There was no single pivotal moment like that in Birmingham on Sunday, though, when Mo Farah spreadeagled a world-class field over the same distance.

The crucifixion was the single most pivotal event in the history of the cosmos.

These findings have important implications not only for clinicians treating patients with severe sepsis but also for the interpretation of other single, seemingly pivotal, randomised controlled trials.

Despite Germany's crucial role as the pivotal single currency country, the bailout could yet be challenged by eurosceptics in the country's supreme court.

Granderson played the entire game Tuesday, losing a ball in the roof panels that turned into a pivotal single in the Rays' two-run seventh, and limped around the clubhouse afterward with his foot entombed in ice.

In this White House, no single book is pivotal, but an array of writings -- many by neoconservative authors closely affiliated with administration officials or their intellectual mentors -- have provided a fertile philosophical matrix for policy decisions as various as the doctrine of pre-emption and civilian oversight of military affairs.