momentousness

Example Sentences

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If we wanted in on the powerful feelings that must have been swirling within each of them during such an exchange, or a nod to the momentousness of the moment — no dice.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

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

Only through hindsight provided in voice-over narration by Daniel Stern, who interjects with 30-something Kevin’s nostalgic reflections, does the protagonist fully understand the momentousness of the era he lived through as a youth.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2021

Camera misfires and awkward in-between frames felt too sacred to delete given the momentousness of what happened, but I’m not sure what else to do with them.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 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