Prior to its release, the film had been hailed by critic Amy Harmon as an epochal moment when cyberpunk counterculture would enter the mainstream.

A draft peace treaty is reached with Jordan - an epochal moment.

Whereas CBS overproduced the major (and minor) moments of the World Series, it simplified the epochal moment of this regional final.

In astronomy, an epoch (or sometimes epochal moment) is a moment in time for which the position or the orbital elements of a celestial body are specified.

But the epochal moment may have come in 1991, when Turkey closed its borders to Kurds fleeing persecution by Saddam Hussein.

"This is an epochal moment, a turning point," he said.

But that was hardly an epochal moment over an issue like abortion, one that defines political fault lines in the capital.

But Washington today was mostly a capital energized by a sense of witnessing - and participating in - an epochal moment.

Three months later, the Kinetoscope's epochal moment arrived.

Just to be present at this epochal moment was almost worth all the aggravation Q had inflicted on him over the years.