Third, there is a positive ending to the collective story in that stigmatization ultimately triggers epiphanies or deep personal insights which transform entrepreneurs' view of failure from a very negative to a positive life experience.
This defeat seemed to trigger an epiphany for Watson, which, using its mastery of natural language and its encyclopedic knowledge of human anatomy, told I.B.M. to "take this job and shove it".
Looking at what he had made without deeming it art triggered an epiphany.
Ms. Walker's words triggered an epiphany of sorts, Mr. Shorris wrote in a 1997 Harper's essay: Poverty was an absence of reflection and beauty, not an absence of money.
The closest to Shore, in a cohort that includes Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, and Richard Misrach, is his friend William Eggleston, the raffish Southern aristocrat who has made pictures unbeatably intense and iconic: epiphanies triggered by the hues and textures of a stranded tricycle, say, or of a faded billboard in a scrubby field.
The holidays do more than trigger nostalgic olfactory epiphanies-though between freshly baked goods, mulling cider, burning candles, and crackling fireplaces, this time of year is certainly a feast for the five senses and the memories we so deeply associate with them.
A trip to Dakar in search of palm wine triggers a dreadful epiphany.
The encounter triggered a little epiphany for Ms. Johnson, 28, who has had a career as a junior fashion editor at W magazine and as a publicist.
As for the cracking of codes, it is shrunk to a single, Oh-my-God epiphany, triggered by a comment in a pub, and fêted with a barrage of music-boosted hugs among Turing and his team.
Tamar's birth triggered a spiritual epiphany that led her to officially join the Catholic Church the next year.
