seminal

He described the “seminal moment” as the wrenching sight of his brother sleeping one night, an image that filled his heart with pity.

Wallace’s son, who was also known as Biggie, was gunned down in 1997 following a music industry party in the Mid-Wilshire district, just two weeks before his seminal album “Life After Death” was released.

Shoup’s central argument, published most expansively in his 700-page seminal work “The High Cost of Free Parking,” was that everything that most people think about parking was wrong.

That one-day session became a seminal piece of music history, “A Love Supreme,” which six decades later is widely regarded as one of the most important albums ever recorded.

And that movie was really seminal for me in so many ways, being able to tell a story about a musician.