Thelin considered the middle-aged human and the pain of his sudden epiphany regarding the responsibilities of fatherhood.

"Worms" ambles through love, childbirth and tragedy, and ends with one those of sudden epiphanies that are indigenous to short stories.

For many, the decision-making process involved a painful weighing of many issues rather than a sudden epiphany.

He seemed to suffer a sudden pessimistic epiphany.

Midway through the writing, Max realizes that he knows the pattern, undergoes a sudden epiphany, and passes out.

In his statement, Justice Blackmun described his new position as the process of a painful evolution, not a sudden epiphany.

I was about to navigate away when I had a sudden epiphany.

In sudden epiphany, Miles O'Brien, a former soldier in the Cardassian war, understood it was explosive.

But pressure accumulates, and sudden epiphanies reveal and relieve the narrator's chronic attacks of undefended clarity and uncompromising consciousness.

From Emerson and especially Thoreau, he learned to search through musical mud and scum for the sudden, lasting epiphany.