Both Uses of
crucial
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Crucial moment.†
Chpt 15 *
- …knowing their own minds, it being a case for the two parties themselves unless it ensued that the legitimate husband happened to be a party to it owing to some anonymous letter from the usual boy Jones, who happened to come across them at the crucial moment in a loving position locked in one another's arms, drawing attention to their illicit proceedings and leading up to a domestic rumpus and the erring fair one begging forgiveness of her lord and master upon her knees and promising to…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(crucial) very important or necessary -- often because it determines how something else will turn out