epiphanic

• "The movie's last-ditch attempt at valorizing family loyalty after a couple hours of miscarriages, queasily averted incest, and beheadings is trumped by an epiphanic final shot of toddler and future queen Elizabeth." —  GreenCine Daily
• As for The Pale King, which The New Yorker excerpts, and which will apparently be published next year, I'll wait for the book to level a judgment - but its subject (IRS agents and the epiphanic potential of extreme boredom) was right in Wallace's wheelhouse.
• In the epiphanic "Cassiopeia," the author sees her mother "alone, out ahead, a scout for the mortal, heart breaking into solo."
• The climactic refrain, "Throw those curtains wide / One day like this a year would see me right," sounded perfect on a Saturday evening at Glastonbury, when the clouds parted and the 2008 festival experienced its first moment of epiphanic delight. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
• But the coup against your opponents at home and abroad, wittingly or unwittingly, was the epiphanic realisation of Africa's pivotal place in Zimbabwe's fate.

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