momentousness

Example Sentences

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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

No late craziness or shocking weirdness or shining momentousness here.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 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

The news is too saturated with actual momentous happenings for manufactured momentousness to create much of an impression.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

As so often happens in life, the momentousness of an occasion is lost in the welter of a thousand details.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela