Iceland was having a revolutionary moment, if of a sometimes hesitant and self-mocking sort.

The issue of the franchise did not, however, make up the sum total of what was generally understood by democracy at that revolutionary moment.

By a strange oversight, no historian has ever taken the trouble to study how people actually lived during the most extreme revolutionary moments.

The only time to talk about revolutionary moments is when you are ready to live them at short notice.

The notion that we should curtail our imagination at a truly revolutionary moment doesn't seem right to me.

If that happens, he said, it will truly mark a revolutionary moment in Nevada history.

But back then, the time they put this one in, it was a very revolutionary moment in American history, you know.

Such a change would mark a revolutionary moment in the development of the European Union.

Any revolutionary moments were staged for the prospect of glory and more wealth.

I found myself wondering, oddly, what it must have been like to be alive at such a revolutionary moment.