charged moment

It was the most emotionally charged moment during the Governors Awards ceremony, an evening that presents the honorary Oscars that were once part of the televised Academy Awards and also serves as a campaign stop for contenders trying to capture what publicists call “face time” with academy voters.

Shiney-Ajay, 26, assumed leadership at a highly charged moment in U.S. politics.

Iskander’s witness testimony was a highly charged moment in the trial, as she described watching Grossman’s SUV plowing into her sons.

Those events have forced Jews everywhere to reckon anew with what they think about Israel and the central role it plays in Jewish life — the kind of charged moment when members of spiritual communities can ask themselves what really matters, and sometimes reach radically different conclusions.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a tear actually sprang to my eye for a moment after reading about a particularly charged moment between Liz and her father on New Year’s Day 2021.