epiphany
Example Sentences
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His just-in-time epiphany leads him to do the very thing he has spent his whole career eschewing: substitute a simple calculus of immediate military advantage for legalistic code.
Wardlaw looks like a skinny Santa Claus with long white hair and beard, but he was dressed somberly Saturday night, like a dapper Scrooge after his epiphany.
From Los Angeles Times
After his roadside epiphany, Mr. Nicolson “slowly developed a double thought: not only to learn something of birds but to make a place,” as he puts it, “that might be accommodating and receptive to them.”
He visits a cable landing station in Tonga expecting a technological epiphany, but finds only “air-conditioned disappointment” in a concrete closet.
Domestic drama, with its psychological epiphanies and sentimental resolutions, repelled him.
From Los Angeles Times
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