Cliché corner   

The defining moment in Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference final.. (USA Today)

For many of this generation of college students, the Rodney King verdict was a defining moment ... (Atlanta Con-

stitution)

The ritual opening of the Tioga Pass Road is the defining moment of spring... (Los Angeles Times)

But for the listener, the defining moment of the work comes when.. (Newsday)

Driven by the polls, Bush went macho in his defining

moment ... (U.S. News & World Report)

Some experts wonder what that defining moment might be for Clinton... (Gannett News Service)

He believes that the L.A. riots have been a defining

moment ... (Los Angeles Times)

The defining moment in Game 6.. (Newsday)

From one week in May. More than 700 of 868 examples found in a database search had appeared in the previous 18 months.