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  • In its description of the room, it states that the “very powerful frescoes” represent “momentous turning-points in the life of the Church” but offers no more information.32 Acton, himself a Catholic, remarked that “the shameful scene may still be traced upon the wall, where, for three centuries, it has insulted every pontiff that entered the Sistine Chapel.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Goldstein also described, with radio-clip in support, other critical turning-points in his own personal exegesis of this religious text.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • The story is not just an account of adolescent rebellion but indeed a meditation on the unavoidable turning-points in life.

    Updike, John 2010

  • In its description of the room, it states that the “very powerful frescoes” represent “momentous turning-points in the life of the Church” but offers no more information.32 Acton, himself a Catholic, remarked that “the shameful scene may still be traced upon the wall, where, for three centuries, it has insulted every pontiff that entered the Sistine Chapel.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Other popular series have reached crucial turning-points without such a reaction.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Other popular series have reached crucial turning-points without such a reaction.

    Dawn 2008

  • Every opposition at the critical turning-points of history carries in itself the germ of a split in the Party, and hence the germ of civil war.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • It is another of the distinctions of his new method of writing history that, with the exception of the book on Charles XII., he throws persons and personal interests into a second place, as being no more than instruments or convenient names for critical turning-points in the large movements of peoples.

    Voltaire 2007

  • They made excellent turning-points to skid around.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • But the word, “idealism,” in the whole history of culture, in which it has against the odds remained the guiding watchword, has only emerged at certain illuminating turning-points from an unclear and imprecise meaning.

    Paul Natorp Kim, Alan 2003

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