momentous
US /moʊˈmentəs/
・UK /məˈmentəs/
C1
adj.AdjectiveVery important or serious
Leaders can make momentous decisions with confidence if they are adequately prepared
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POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema For?
- They take on the momentous task of sweetly edging us towards being slightly nicer people to live around.
They take on the momentous task of sweetly edging us towards being slightly nicer people to live around.
- They take on the momentous task
They take on the momentous task
Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech
- This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
- This momentous Decree came as a [great] beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves
This momentous Decree came as a [great] beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves
Do This When Your Battery Is Running Low
- We might not have done anything momentous or heroic, not have climbed a mountain or performed heart surgery - and that is some of the problem.
We might not have done anything momentous or heroic, not have climbed a mountain or performed heart surgery - and that is some of the problem.
- We might not have done anything momentous or heroic, not have climbed a mountain or performed heart surgery.
We might not have done anything momentous or heroic, not have climbed a mountain or performed heart surgery.
What Serving 7 Years in Prison Taught Damon West About Communication
- I want to take a minute to talk to you about Momentous.
I want to take a minute to talk to you about Momentous.
- So I started taking Momentous, a supplement company, about a year and a half ago, long before they ever reached out for this podcast.
So I started taking Momentous, a supplement company, about a year and a half ago, long before they ever reached out for this podcast.
BREAKING: MAJOR UPDATE from Kamala Harris
- Over the past year, I have traveled across the country talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election.
Over the past year, I have traveled across the country talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election.
- Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election.
Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election.
EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss Russian assets | BBC News
- European leaders are meeting in Brussels with a momentous decision still on the table whether or not to use billions of euros, frozen Russian assets to fund a loan for Ukraine.
European leaders are meeting in Brussels with a momentous decision still on the table whether or not to use billions of euros, frozen Russian assets to fund a loan for Ukraine.
- European leaders are meeting in Brussels with a momentous decision still on the table: whether or not to use billions of euros frozen Russian assets to fund a loan for Ukraine.
European leaders are meeting in Brussels with a momentous decision still on the table: whether or not to use billions of euros frozen Russian assets to fund a loan for Ukraine.
6 Historical Hangovers Making Us Miserable Today
- However important humans might have felt, however grand the aristocracy or urgent the news of the day, people knew that they were not the measure of all things, that above and beyond the earthly realm there was something else more mysterious, imposing and strange to which they would all regularly have to bow and which would relativise them in one another's eyes. The fanciest king was nothing next to a thunderous god, the mightiest invention pathetic next to an angry sea. But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of. It's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness. God has died and nature is to be pitied and patronised like a wounded, once proud animal. We have lost any redeeming sense of our own unimportance. We are at the same time, each one of us, told repeatedly that we could do and be anything. We might, with sufficient hard work, assume the presidency, unlock a major scientific secret or become known to the entire planet through our athletic or artistic prowess. We are also thereby subtly informed that only a very special destiny is valid. There is no dignity left in a so-called ordinary life.
However important humans might have felt, however grand the aristocracy or urgent the news of the day, people knew that they were not the measure of all things, that above and beyond the earthly realm there was something else more mysterious, imposing and strange to which they would all regularly have to bow and which would relativise them in one another's eyes. The fanciest king was nothing next to a thunderous god, the mightiest invention pathetic next to an angry sea. But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of. It's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness. God has died and nature is to be pitied and patronised like a wounded, once proud animal. We have lost any redeeming sense of our own unimportance. We are at the same time, each one of us, told repeatedly that we could do and be anything. We might, with sufficient hard work, assume the presidency, unlock a major scientific secret or become known to the entire planet through our athletic or artistic prowess. We are also thereby subtly informed that only a very special destiny is valid. There is no dignity left in a so-called ordinary life.
- But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of - it's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness.
But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of - it's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness.
Why an Ordinary Life Can Be a Good Life
- a picture called The Little Street. Doing
so was a quiet but momentous and revolutionary
a picture called The Little Street. Doing so was a quiet but momentous and revolutionary
- Doing so was a quiet but momentous and revolutionary act—with an impact that challenges our values to this day.
Doing so was a quiet but momentous and revolutionary act—with an impact that challenges our values to this day.
Dallas - City Video Guide
- One of the most momentous events in American history took place in the former book depository in West End.
One of the most momentous events in American history took place in the former book depository in West End.
- One of the most momentous events in American history took place
One of the most momentous events in American history took place
This Amazing America (1941)
- momentous question
momentous question
- And if they'll give their consent, I propose to ask you a very personal and momentous question.
And if they'll give their consent, I propose to ask you a very personal and momentous question.