What is "crucially"

Usage examples of "crucially".

At one crucially important level, this is an archetypal metaphor of the psychological process of death and rebirth that is at the center of the process of individuation.

But if your CD player or personal computer breaks, its repair relies crucially on knowledge of its internal workings.

Often they depended crucially on placing their children in the Church or the military to keep their small property intact.

Surely it was not too much to ask that, at such crucially important points in my life as this, she somehow contained her chaos to herself.

For instance, Francis Crick and Christof Koch believe that consciousness depends crucially on some form of serial attentional mechanism that helps sets of the relevant neurons to fire in a coherent semioscillatory way, probably at a frequency in the 40-70 Hz range.

He had used this crucially important star-box to transfer ownership of the Monster and the Eye from Anigel and Kadiya to himself.

Tolivar would hand over both the coronet and the crucially important star-box to the sorcerer, thinking thereby to gain her freedom.

There is a crucially retrospective cast to this kind of understanding, as if to say: you cannot know exposure until it has done its work, until it is too late.

I suspect intention and expectation of catharsis are crucially important in determining the outcome, e.

It was beautiful, romantic, leavened with both sadness and evil and, most crucially, self-contained: There were mountains and fields, an ocean, a lagoon, and a port town in the distance—an entire world in miniature.

Surely the limbic system and the emotional charge of every incident must be crucially involved in the entrainment or encoding or embedding of a memory.

The light god (the divine) has now crucially occupied critical stations in the sinking lower realm, and begins the reannexing of it back into the totality composed of both realms.

Electromagnetic waves carry energy—life on earth, for example, relies crucially on solar energy transmitted from the sun to the earth by electromagnetic waves.