We do not choose our historical epoch, or the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. From LearnThat.org. [Joseph Epstein.]
As the Davidic epoch is the point of the covenant-people's highest glory, so the captivity is that of their lowest humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In this street, stunt performers in epoch dresses walked around Lisbon in old cars and distributed the "Mad Men News" newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men] Reference
The fault of the epoch is the absence of meditativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women] Reference
This may be called the epoch of death -- that is, of world-death. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
This milestone in the history of the Universe is called the epoch of reionization. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I shall now draw the dolorous recital of what I have termed my epoch of despondency to a close. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
What constitutes the distinctive character of our epoch is the development of the right of citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
I must pick you up on one glaring absence from your post, Anna, namely the epoch-defining announcement that. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrity Apprentice...] Reference
HISTORY - otherwise known as the epoch-chronicling network, the History Channel - will starting promoting its. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
One of the Salons on which he lavished all the art of his epoch was the reception-room of the royal Adelaïde. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
Then the police turn around, but there’s an oak tree where their car used to be because an epoch is passing. From Wordnik.com. [FRESH IDEAS • by John P. McCann] Reference
The media theorist Lev Manovich has said that the definitive informational metaphor of our epoch is the database. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
More noted, however, have been the disasters of modern times, during what may be termed the epoch of modern navigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
These facts tend to show that every world has in its career an intermediate period which may be called the epoch of life. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
"Democracy" given in Birmingham in 1884, may fairly be called epoch-making in their good fortune of explaining America to Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Modern American Prose Selections] Reference
As far as I know, but I may be wrong, there was never a prior "epoch" in UNIX timestampts of 1932. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives] Reference
As to "epoch" and "period," I use them as synonyms to avoid repeating the same word. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
But it is nice to have the NY Times declare one side of the debate the dominant one of our 'epoch'!. From Wordnik.com. [Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog] Reference
Conservatory (characterized by a pressure touch), and the third or new epoch which is characterized by weight playing. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression] Reference
To describe this as some kind of epoch-making 'seismic shift' is dangerously complacent, as well as fundamentally inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [Shuggy's Blog] Reference
When "epoch" was first borrowed into English, it referred to the fixed point used to mark the beginning of a system of chronology. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The latter is grounded in phenomenology and, as such, incorporates the usual Husserlian categories, such as epoché and intersubjectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
The Anthropocene is the geological epoch shaped by human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Anthropocene] Reference
The Holocene has been an epoch of climate stability in the main. From Wordnik.com. [The Anthropocene] Reference
"The idea of being quietly creative is not of our epoch," he says. From Wordnik.com. [A Maverick Master] Reference
NEWSWEEK was founded in 1933, amid another chaotic political and economic epoch. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
But the third epoch transcends "anything humanity has known before," Pyne writes. From Wordnik.com. [Review of "Voyager," a book about the space probes, by Stephen J. Pyne] Reference
Is there another epoch that reminds you of today's world, where U.S. power predominates?. From Wordnik.com. ['It Is Very Important For America To Be Humble'] Reference
The nature of this infant epoch is so uncertain that a term has yet to be coined to define it. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of Living Seriously] Reference
The epoch that was once so far in the future, that time when we're going to be old, is more or less here. From Wordnik.com. [Our Way--But For How Much Longer?] Reference
Yeltsin has always paid attention to symbolic things ... a new epoch demands new people, a new generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers Ahead] Reference
The Anthropocene is the name given by imaginative geologists to a new geological epoch shaped by human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the Anthropocene] Reference
By introducing these symbols, the president is trying to show that he's heir to that epoch, to its best qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened To... The Communist Party] Reference
The 20th century was a bloody and riveting epoch -- a time of war and peace, depression and prosperity, glamour and glitz. From Wordnik.com. [Listening To The Voices Of The Century] Reference
We're in the Holocene, the epoch that began something like 11,600 years ago with a sudden warming event and the retreat of the glaciers. From Wordnik.com. [The Anthropocene] Reference
We're officially living in the Holocene epoch, which began 11,600 years ago with a sudden warming event and the retreat of the glaciers. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the Anthropocene] Reference
It's all part of the new-era investment game, in which technology's lamp will light the path toward an epoch of endless productivity gains. From Wordnik.com. [This Love Could Hurt] Reference
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