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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThey are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSHer eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEAt this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLThe moment was an awkward one, and Cynthia wished madly that she had not been prompted to ask that unfortunate question.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANFrom the moment that he touches the magical little hand, cousin George is eclipsed.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")And she fell to scolding him in the way he usually loved,—but at the moment found less stimulating for some reason.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODNever then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWORDS RELATED TO DEFINING MOMENT
- climax
- crisis
- crisis point
- critical juncture
- critical point
- critical stage
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crunch time
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- do or die time
- emergency
- high noon
- irreversible momentum
- moment of truth
- pivotal point
- point of no return
- sink or swim time
- the Rubicon
- turning point
- zero hour
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- climax
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- critical point
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- crux
- culmination
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- juncture
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- twist
- when push comes to shove
- zero hour
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.