Not of world-historical importance, but just interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New AP - Publishing 2.0] Reference

Tagged with drag queens, world-historical splits, YouTube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh No She Didn’t « Gerry Canavan] Reference

We are living through an unprecedented world-historical moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are we really ready for a global conversation about virtual worlds?] Reference

Yes, in many ways we are stuck in a world-historical narcissistic eddy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul and Spirit] Reference

Americans that Saddam Hussein was a menace of world-historical magnitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: Iraq, Israel, Iran] Reference

Now I ask you, how many major world-historical events happened at 3 a.m.?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaded 3 A.M. Phone Call] Reference

Political, economic, and world-historical factors all played important roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting George W. Bush on the psychologist's couch] Reference

I'm not saying that you'll always find world-historical profundity on Twitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Morris: Twisdom: Twitter Wisdom] Reference

This made it a major famine, relatively speaking, by world-historical standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish famine] Reference

When the Israeli military attacked the flotilla, it was a world-historical event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Naiman: Help the Palestinians. Go See This Movie] Reference

December 31st, 2009 at 6: 18 pm the stakes in that election were world-historical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been] Reference

But today Moscow poses a nasty regional problem, not a world-historical global one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Election Mattered] Reference

They offered little in the way of utopian justification or world-historical meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series:] Reference

Wagner doesn't deal with human redemption in such a world-historical way until Parsifal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

He is world-historical, the visionary, come to make the oceans recede and the planet heal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and the vision thing] Reference

Our victories over these foes were, in each case, world-historical in scale and importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shahid Buttar: Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII] Reference

How, really, do you do something so mundane as advertise for a world-historical light walker?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's talk about this new Obama ad.] Reference

Koestler was situated in such a way as to be a participant-eyewitness in these world-historical events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Day in the Ketchup Mine] Reference

Or this about long-standing, world-historical tensions concerning divisions between men and women generally?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

What if the causes of some "world-historical events" are themselves small, granular, gradual, and cumulative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Or was this a case of many small causes operating at a local level, aggregating to a world-historical outcome?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

And yet, for such a world-historical automotive event as this, the Leaf driving experience is a curious nonevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting a Charge From Nissan's New Leaf] Reference

For me, this is one more reminder of what Kierkegaard referred to as an "unnatural world-historical consciousness".    From Wordnik.com.  [The limits of Force] Reference

It must be remembered that in those days, no one predicted that Lady Thatcher would become a world-historical figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Almost-Great Prime Minister] Reference

We no longer fully believe in world-historical forces driving us toward integration, modernity, the freedom to browse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Teitelman: Transactions: May 17, 2010] Reference

Instead Gingrich, a failed professor, described himself as a world-historical figure, leader of a universal transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidney Blumenthal: How Bush Rules: And How Sonny Bono Predicted the Downfall of the GOP Congress] Reference

She was now on the way to becoming the world-historical figure who today is the gold standard of conservative statesmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative Snobs Are Wrong About Palin] Reference

And Team Obama is too smart, and too calculating, to give up a useful world-historical organizing principle just out of spite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Malcomson: Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics] Reference

Costless, that is, in terms of any long-term cash expenditures, so unlike those world-historical rat holes Fannie and Freddie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold, the Subprime Shmoe] Reference

There is no compelling logic to locking away all traces of Gandhi in India alone - he is, after all, a world-historical figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a material world] Reference

I have been truly fortunate in having been able to be the guiding hand in what is clearly a world-historical piece of legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Society]

I keep hearing everyone from liberals to mainstream media to right-wingers hailing this health care bill as a world-historical event.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Won a Robust Public Option . . . on College Loans] Reference

The Persian Wars are treated by Hegel as the deci - sive period when the Greek spirit encountered the previous world-historical people.    From Wordnik.com.  [DESPOTISM] Reference

I think ... though I may feel differently after I've been jumped on by the true believers for my inability to appreciate world-historical greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | CNN/UNH Poll: Obama Rockets To Ten-Point Lead] Reference