These may not seem like earth-shaking developments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Saving the Lost Generation] Reference

TOOBIN: Sounds pretty earth-shaking today, doesn't it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2007] Reference

Nothing real earth-shaking about it, but it looks fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference

Is that an earth-shaking move, diplomatically speaking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2009] Reference

"The fact that they disagree is nothing earth-shaking,".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But I have Type II diabetes, which isn't earth-shaking news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2004] Reference

Also, earth-shaking insight into Rihanna ` s toxic relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2009] Reference

And the move — slings and arrows she'd thought so earth-shaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Truth]

There didn't seem to be an great earth-shaking specific agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And Cardoso At Signing Of Education Declaration] Reference

Deep-toned, earth-shaking crashes broke into the quiet peaceful air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

That's why somebody like Urban Meyer has earth-shaking consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009] Reference

This is small potatoes compared to those really earth-shaking events.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: What Are the Prospects for Bipartisanship During a Bush Administration? - December 14, 2000] Reference

Whether it's earth-shaking, I think -- I will reserve judgment on that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2005] Reference

I tried weak joviality: "It can't be anything of earth-shaking gravity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Question of Comfort] Reference

"This the world learned today when an earth-shaking explosion rocked ....".    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

The interviews with Fenstermaker are earth-shaking, and very well conducted.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part II] Reference

Wells could become the earth-shaking epicenter of a consciously gendered culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Bornstein: Entire College Undergoes Sex Change And Nobody Notices] Reference

The mysteriously missing shirt he avoided discussing was odd but not earth-shaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lure]

And when their feet hit the ground, it made a hollow, rhythmic, earth-shaking sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farewell to Africa, good morning Iraq!] Reference

But they should not in any way take away from what I call the earth-shaking good news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2003] Reference

Women presiding over major states in the current era are no longer earth-shaking news.    From Wordnik.com.  [June Koch: Is Electing A "Woman" All That "Historical"?] Reference

Global warming (up) In Davos and D.C., finally getting respect as earth-shaking crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom: Changing Climate Edition] Reference

The Camp David Agreement, brokered by Jimmy Carter, was an earth-shaking land-for-peace deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melissa Rossi: Thirty Years of Turmoil Fall in Obama's Lap] Reference

GREENFIELD: It's not earth-shaking news, but what it does is to just solidify what's going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2004] Reference

The past 12 months have witnessed many earth-shaking developments in various parts of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address by Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, Winner of the 1991 Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize] Reference

Or, it might be something more earth-shaking you have to share, and then commit to transforming it.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Do Ricky Martin's Homosexuality, Sandra Bullock's Cheating Husband, Tiger Woods... and You Have in Common?] Reference

Whether or not one considers any of these measures earth-shaking, they're accomplishments nonetheless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off Base on Sex Ed] Reference

England was full of danger; on the Continent a new period of earth-shaking revolution announced itself not doubtfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

They may not have been as earth-shaking as the iPhone, but the new products Apple announced Tuesday offer lots of goodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld: A closer look at the new iLife] Reference

PETER KENYON: The event that triggered the latest round of debate over the military's role in Turkish life was not earth-shaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changing Role Of Turkey's Military Raises Questions] Reference

KING: And watching them do what they do, and these young men have something to be proud of, so it had to be doubly earth-shaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 5, 2001] Reference

As he spoke came an earth-shaking thud, and Ken, who was next to Roy, grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down flat on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference

It needed only the spark, which the proper occasion would be sure soon to strike out, and the awful, earth-shaking explosion would follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

RUBIN: I don't think you can have a job like I had for seven years, being in the midst of these earth-shaking events and not feel some tug.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Liz Smith Tells All; Jamie Rubin Goes Inside the NATO Air War; John Ritter and Henry Winkler Take on Broadway - October 7, 2000] Reference