epiphanic

• “He concedes the reader is always aware of the possibility of the multiplicity of meanings but "the strength is not to stay there but to go back and say 'No! This is what Achilles was like' - this what he was like in the very moment you read him, and this is what I call epiphanic".”

  Brit Lit Blogs

• “It is "epiphanic" -- a peak experience on the social as well as individual scale.”

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• “Settling down and quieting the frenetic stimuli of modern multitasking not only brings peace and calm, it may also be a revelatory experience something the ancients expected and called "epiphanic".”

  The Huffington Post: Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism

• “The affinities between Augustine's conversion experience and similar moments of inspired misprision in Bishop and Wordsworth lend further support to Barron's argument for the "epiphanic" themes common to both poets (301, 306), a position complicated by what C.K. Doreski calls Bishop's "aesthetic of reticence" (34).”

  Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision

• “In that sticky, solitary, epiphanic moment, everything became clear.”

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Relate: A Post-Earth Day Manifesto

• “(This latter is a repetition of the same thought he had had upon confronting the girl with the note) Many of Updike's stories end with these epiphanic moments of truth, but this is a story in which that moment is particularly affecting.”

  Updike, John

• “Sellars and Currentzis included a fragment from Tchaikovsky's "Hymn of the Cherubim" in the epiphanic ninth scene of "Iolanta.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Shining Study in Vision

• “I'm unsure if I had a religious experience in that lab, but those 20 minutes were nothing short of epiphanic.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael O'Loughlin: Epiphany By Anatomy: How Seeing a Dead Body Helped Me Understand Life

• “As with Chekhov, Garan Holcombe notes: “All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail.””

  alice munro | withdraws from canadian prize « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “I do not credit the epiphanic, the seeing-through that reveals all, triggered by a mastering detail…" writes Ford in the voice of his American everyman narrator, Frank Bascombe.”

  The Guardian: Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether'

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