world-historically
advEtymology From world-historical + -ly.
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In a world-historical manner.
- Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor met while filming Cleopatra in the late 1950s, and both were married. Their affair was considered hardly less sensational and world-historically important than that of the characters they played.2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:
- Seen this way, the video feels more mercenary: Its severe mood was, in part, a performance, meant to reassure a world-historically anxious and distrustful audience that they had not been led astray for the last eight years.2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine: