momentousness

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Scholars and journalists who cover the court are left struggling over how to explain to the public the momentousness of what is really happening.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2024

In a theater dependent on exaggerated storylines — hairbreadth escapes, implausible coincidences and either conclusively happy or disastrous endings — how can the momentousness of ordinary life be captured?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

Though I didn’t realize the momentousness of it at first, we were one of the earliest American families to move to China in the months after it and the United States normalized relations.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2022

Given the momentousness of the event, she was guaranteed to draw attention regardless of where she finished.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021

Drafted mostly by Szilard with Einstein’s input, the two-page, eight-paragraph document buries the urgency of the situation under dry and conditional prose, its momentousness communicated largely by Einstein’s signature at the bottom.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik