epiphanies

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We've all had our food-epiphanies: a key lime pie in the Florida Keys, fresh-caught salmon along Alaska's Copper River, or maybe just a really good macaroni salad close to home.

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  • Not only are books about ordinary people and ordinary lives and ordinary events and little-bitty epiphanies, not only are they not worth reading most of the time, they're simply garbage. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
  • He hadn't provided any carnal epiphanies or skull-shattering orgasms, but he'd done nothing that had made her want to retch, either. —  Lunatics
  • I had all the information to come to these little epiphanies, but it was only through the social interaction of reading their book did many of these concepts gel. —  Evolving Web
  • Presumably Aidan's no stranger to melancholy, but the vocals aren't quite depressed or depressive - more like a conspiratorial sharing of insights and epiphanies, amused by the absurdity of existence. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • "Before this world starts up again, it's me and night / We wait for the sun / The kids and drunks head back inside," introduces the first verse of "Big Casino," a song that epitomizes the desperate epiphanies which often accompany the first moments of sunrise to a soggy, party-drenched brain. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
 

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