world-shaker

American  

[wurld-shey-ker] / ˈwɜrldˌʃeɪ kər /

noun

1. something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world.

   The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.

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Example Sentences

If not exactly a world-shaker, this one is able, sophisticated and full of pianistic beans.

From Time Magazine Archive

This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President's own speech was not the world-shaker the White House indicated it might be, but it was a simple and earnest restatement of the Administration's foreign policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tell what will bind thee,   Thou young world-shaker, Up vault our oceans, Down fall our forests.

From Project Gutenberg