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"climactic" Definitions
  1. (of an event or a point in time) very exciting, most important

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As Galantis, the duo takes current electronic-music tropes — thumping beats, climactic builds, even more climactic beat drops — and fuses them with their proven gifts for crafting ear worms.
"Critics might quibble with this depiction of the climactic battle of the Cold War, because, while awesome, in real life there was no climactic battle," Lee told the Salt Lake Tribune.
In a climactic finale, Sadie does eventually confront her abuser.
Not every painting in Corot: Women possesses such climactic energy.
It was a climactic moment for Trump, he told CNN.
That confusion beclouds the climactic sequence of the singing contest.
In the climactic moments of Columbus, Kogonada takes things away.
Weighty and climactic, "Rite" often closes programs for a reason.
The climactic vote was on a measure sponsored by Sen.
This is where Tully and Lucero had their climactic bout.
Rocky subsequently thrashed Drago in an epic, climactic grudge match.
These climactic disruptions proved fatal to many species, Elasmotherium among them.
It's a sort of anti-climactic entry to the market, true.
Unless, of course, he gets blown up in that climactic explosion.
He started slow, before building up to a euphoric, climactic release.
She's in the climactic week of a grotesque battle with another.
And when it comes time for the big, climactic superhero-vs.
But on the other, that would make for less climactic television.
Additions to the story include romance and a climactic character death.
In climactic moments, his focused sound penetrated the orchestra with vigor.
What will the fallout be from last season's climactic fatal push?
The climactic scene in the video is both comic and sweet.
In the couple's climactic romantic scene, blood gushes from Emma's nose.
It just seems a little anti-climactic after all this buildup, no?
One Sunday the internet crashed during a climactic moment in his sermon.
For such a climactic moment in their lives, it was surprisingly mundane.
Zuckerberg might not have made such a climactic decision unless pushed commercially.
" Elsewhere, the tracks hit with intensity like the climactic and atmospheric "Dislexia.
They tell themselves that however anti-climactic the experience, their vote counts.
The movie's climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews.
Climactic passages crested with sound, and dramatic episodes generated plenty of heat.
It's pretty anti-climactic after the countless scenes of excruciating Waif vs.
As a result, the six hours of summations felt almost anti-climactic.
No slow leak of the news followed by its anti-climactic confirmation.
No, the most climactic ending involved Southern California, as it often does.
He was so effective that his climactic torture scene was difficult to endure.
The Cloverfield Paradox stumbles trying to cram climactic action into its claustrophobic quarters.
There is an unmatched, unprecedented moment of glory in Avengers: Endgame's climactic battle.
Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in the climactic court battle in Legally Blonde.
These are the existential questions our characters contend with in this climactic episode.
There's a climactic battle, often with some portal opening up in the sky.
And the climactic, bare-bones "I Was Born for This" is a stunner.
It's almost got the feel of that climactic stand-off in Reservoir Dogs.
This is meant to be the moment in the book: climactic, epiphanic, cathartic.
" Refinery 29 wrote that it "remains terrifying until its climactic, exorcism-filled end.
Bill Murray was filmed at Wrigley during a climactic moment in the series.
The exchange was the closest thing to a climactic moment in which Mrs.
Optimistically, "The Last Jedi" leaves plenty of intriguing possibilities for the climactic installment.
Republican efforts to block Donald Trump intensified ahead of Tuesday's possibly climactic primaries.
" Back onstage, he amps up his bravado for a final, climactic "Gold Hole.
In climactic phrases her gleaming voice soared easily over the orchestra and chorus.
Or just an apropos aphorism for Wakanda's climactic embrace of internationalist foreign policy?
Scientists are already beginning to see more of these sorts of climactic seesaws.
And the climactic revelation of Boy's true nature is a genuinely surprising twist.
At Ms. Shane's house in Nashville, Mr. Mcgowan had envisioned a climactic rendezvous.
Still, what he did in the climactic Season 1 finale scene was stunning.
This wasn't a story-critical moment or a climactic showdown with a rival.
That was such a climactic scene, and I had really worried about it.
There were also plenty of digital extras added into the climactic fight sequence.
One climactic scene just involves him walking away from the camera in resignation.
Unsurprisingly, it is about Haiti, and unsurprisingly the earthquake makes a climactic appearance.
The climactic courtroom scene now includes new anatomically exact descriptions of the — ouch!
Two episodes later, we got the climactic peak and the comedown all at once.
Rowling killed off both in the climactic battle to defeat Voldemort, leaving Teddy orphaned.
Most significantly, at the climactic moment, Kirk can't bring himself to let Edith die.
The climactic moment of the series' pilot involved a man attempting to rape her.
Climactic conditions have been average this summer, and the terrain itself is relatively flat.
Inevitably, the movie spends a lot of time getting ready for the climactic showdown.
A climactic Moss battle with the White House had dramatic results for American consumers.
Then came the big eagle before she signed off with another, anti-climactic bogey.
The book's climactic scene takes place near the Big Blackfoot's confluence with Belmont Creek.
And the show tends to go limp in what should be its climactic moments.
The two face off in the climactic battle between Simba and Scar as well.
All full moons are exhausting and emotional, but this one will be especially climactic.
Disappointing plot twists ensue in a climactic brawl starved for snappier choreography and editing.
In November, Hannity joined Trump onstage at a climactic rally for the midterm elections.
Projected Twitter feeds and YouTube videos figure prominently in the play's climactic face-off.
In a climactic scene, players from both teams cry before going their separate ways.
The track booms and thumps along to reach a climactic howl after the chorus.
And it's far more upsetting than even the climactic tragedy that ends this show.
Some of this is played for gruesome comedy, especially in the extended climactic showdown.
A climactic sequence even takes place in Japan, which consciously evokes the "Godzilla" movies.
That climactic moment is ravishingly rendered here, amid candle-lighted shadows and ecclesiastic song.
" A climactic star turn by Orange County chief medical examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia—a.k.a. "Dr.
In the climactic confrontation in Preacher, former friends Jesse and Cassidy have a brutal fistfight.
In Bioshock's climactic scene, you finally encounter Rapture's founder, Andrew Ryan, who reveals — spoiler alert!
That should be enough to get you to watch this oddly anti-climactic hockey video.
And there is a climactic dramatization of the Cold War personified via spandex-clad wrestlers.
It was an anti-climactic climax, another odd moment in a campaign replete with them.
While the film's visuals are striking throughout, they become truly transcendent during the climactic competition.
At a climactic moment of the first Kingdom Hearts, the protagonist, Sora, gives a speech.
The climactic scene of the opera, in which Akhnaten's kingdom is overthrown, is particularly mesmerizing.
You need certain climactic conditions for that political wave to form, starting with low turnout.
If that sounds a little anti-climactic, then I'll say it Italian: Pasta Di Mandorle.
Downing tried to take it further at a climactic moment of his Gates questioning Tuesday.
The elephant death is extraordinary footage, but Glass's climactic kill is an adult male lion.
Major legislation being forced through along partisan lines heads for a climactic holiday-season vote.
Several nations steered away from their A-teams, at least for the climactic free skates.
It was the most anti-climactic experience ever, and that's exactly as it should be.
"We could have fireworks," enthuses one commentator at a climactic moment in a critical game.
" Arcade Fire sets pop distractions aside for the album's climactic song, "We Don't Deserve Love.
There are few climactic moments in the story, and no roller-coaster ride of emotions.
So I'm not about to divulge the climactic event that gives the show its name.
One of 2019's most high-profile legal cases has finally reached its climactic end.
The filmmakers unearth some crowd-pleasing twists -- especially during the climactic act -- before it's over.
In anticipation of war For some, Sunday's cross-border fire was an anti-climactic moment.
" The host went on to say that the ending to Mueller's investigations was "anti-climactic.
So it's odd to think that the culmination of their development is so... anti-climactic.
Amina's climactic sleepwalking scene requires both delicate lyricism and daring coloratura agility; Ms. Park had both.
True, often a "retest" of such a climactic low is needed in subsequent weeks or months.
Not anything climactic, but you could be setting up for [a] 5 to 7 percent pullback.
She calls the resulting music "very slow and anti-climactic," but that doesn't seem quite right.
Does it slowly build fear and tension, only to expel it all in a climactic release?
Even without an an orgasm, it was one of the most climactic moments of my life.
Why doesn't Fire Emblem have a big screen mode I can use for those climactic battles?
The Framingham-born cop who refuses to give up her rooftop position during the climactic showdown.
There was just one problem: The climactic song that ties the whole movie together didn't exist.
The state's winner-take-all primary on Tuesday is shaping up to be a climactic moment.
Duke finds out about Viola's deception during the middle of the climactic soccer game against Cornwall.
That's why the climactic scene in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, out this weekend, is so satisfying.
It felt like such an anti-climactic end to a song that I otherwise really loved.
And it follows that an anti-climactic fog hangs over much of Memories...Do Not Open.
Surrealist René Magritte's "Son of Man" (1964) also features prominently in one of the climactic scenes.
And the climactic moments remain tense and personal, while still hitting those fun heist-movie beats.
He might have given the climactic, sumptuously filmed dream ballet transporting moments of, you know, dance.
The climactic fight arrives on a tide of feelings and ends with a flood of tears.
There is no climactic dialogue about interracial love (or lust) remedying hate, no transcendence of difference.
There are a few moments — a climactic high-elevation fight scene that looks like every other climactic high-elevation fight scene; a chase through the forest involving wolves — where the digital seams show, and you're aware of the cold presence of lines of code behind the images.
On Wednesday, the full moon illuminates your house of partnerships, bringing relationship drama to a climactic peak.
Later, in a climactic battle, resistance fighters shoot down an alien aircraft and track down its pilot.
Then, Miley Cyrus's acerbic rasp added a welcome punch, bringing the performance to its climactic, pyrotechnic swell.
With a few elaborations, including a climactic trial scene, that's pretty much what happens in Electric Dreams.
At climactic moments the actors freeze, as though in a photograph, while striking a particularly dramatic pose.
As the trio performs the climactic chorus, hosts LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen laugh in approval.
But the weekend announcement, in a tweet, was anti-climactic, and on the ground sporadic gunfire continued.
The climactic scene comes when Loki invites his reportorial nemesis Contreras to interview him live on television.
Think of it as a climactic event, a version of global warming that's more annoying than scary.
Because Snow is central to the novel's climactic action, that action also winds up feeling somewhat canned.
Phoebe's birth mom is introduced in a climactic series of episodes, but inexplicably disappears after season five.
The chaos of the climactic minutes stands in brutal contrast to the decorum that has come before.
At some point, you'll probably be able to see photographs or a film of this climactic moment.
Such verbal subtleties are difficult to search out on YouTube, as are climactic moments in Binchois's music.
Nor is the climactic battle scene that will hinge on a one-chance-in-a-million stratagem.
But I wonder if he knew how harsh such a climactic passage sounded in this particular hall.
Under such circumstances, there is no way for the novel's climactic marriages to read as purely romantic.
I was desperate for games to let me linger in their worlds after their most climactic moments.
After breakups and reconciliation, the season's climactic series of events helped drive another wedge between Lucious and Cookie.
In light of this question, the climactic moments of Destiny 2's story crackle with a new vitality.
In a climactic scene hinted at for hundreds of pages, we witness the full blast of Andret's brutality.
What explains the disconnect between the experts' alarmist predictions and the anti-climactic outcomes when Trump ignores them?
But humans have been conducting regular burns since at least the last major climactic shift 5000 years ago.
"Blood" likely only increases Jaime's itch for battle when a nearly climactic battle falls far short of bloodshed.
On the Russia story, Democrats have prepped their base for a final climactic revelation which may never come.
While these girls basically did what anyone would do, they admit the story is a bit anti-climactic.
Its climactic moments possess zero emotional depth and its supposedly tense exchanges play out in a heated monotone.
Shuri, Okoye, Ayo, and M'Baku all remain faithfully by his side, after surviving the climactic battle against Killmonger.
In their telling, Obamacare repeal was supposed to be the climactic achievement of a newly consolidated GOP government.
We have unleashed powerful climactic forces that can't just be shut off like a dirty, obsolete coal plant.
The climactic first-act dance number, "Au Mirliton," refers to the nightclub run by Aristide Bruant (Jamie Jackson).
"It kind of builds that climactic moment where she's pushing back and fighting back and taking the lead."
Shakespeare brilliantly shows all of these types of enablers working together in the climactic scene of this ascent.
One for the agesThat set the stage for a climactic Game Seven, held on Golden State's home court.
But Noche Flamenca shows usually have only one main event, anyway: the climactic, volcanic solo of Soledad Barrio.
Whatever my reservations with Dark Souls 3, its climactic battle was a spectacular, fitting conclusion to the saga.
But in this performance, Mr. van Zweden had pushed the orchestra to make several earlier episodes equally climactic.
Indeed, even in the face of alarming climactic shifts, most people have chosen to stay where they are.
"Today was sort of a climactic day; with picture-taking by various news agencies," Bert wrote to Lottie.
The last thing they want is for weather to play through the climactic finish to their 83rd tournament.
Her gleaming, yearning tone in the climactic aria provided a short-lived epiphany before darkness closed in again.
Finally, we were jettisoned off the ship in an escape pod that acts as the ride's climactic drop.
Thirty-two-year-old Drew* also remembers the split from her mother several years ago as anti-climactic.
Even though a few climactic scenes take place in the mall, the show doesn't really use the mall.
Climactic events or competition from Neanderthals caused them to die off, leaving no genetic trace behind in the population.
Seeing her crushed by falling rubble in the Red Keep's crypt was not as climactic as some had hoped.
The final act almost plays as parody, complete with a climactic showdown and massive sets burning to the ground.
" But for sheer hoots, I must salute the Earl's climactic toast: "To British justice, the envy of the world.
Sunday's episode of Westworld, the first season's fifth, was the big ole orgy that served as its climactic moment.
The climactic battle takes up nearly half of the movie, with multiple story beats happening just within that fight.
While the situation for her appears desperate come a climactic wedding scene, she's got the whole situation under control.
Carrington: I think at some level it was probably anti-climactic and [didn't have] a profound effect on them.
The result is an anti-climactic end to a major standoff between Apple and the FBI in San Bernardino.
I won't spoil the way that cliffs and helicopters interact in that climactic section, but it's very, very tense.
Finally, probably after some kind of climactic battle with a fascist yachting club, our hero approaches the Sea Court.
And there are the Shamrocks' regional rivals, the Massena Central Red Raiders, whom they face in a climactic championship.
The musicians took intermittent breaks, with all rejoining for a climactic ending as the sun rose over the island.
The Republican contests on Tuesday are seen as potentially climactic: A loss by Mr. Rubio in Florida or Gov.
The climactic dream, which weirdly implicates Weevil and ends with dead Cervando whispering "I am God," is downright haunting.
He knows how to take a microscopic pause before a climactic chord, making it sound louder and more final.
The season three finale features a climactic storyline about Phoebe finding out that her birth mom is still alive.
After Mr. Ivanovici's Vivier shouted his climactic existential questions and screamed, the group slowly proceeded out of the space.
Tarantino's movies are now mostly exhausting: a lot of chatter, as one patiently awaits the inevitable climactic blood bath.
Fine actor though he is, not even Mr. Malkovich can ride out the faux-psychology of Fein's climactic lament.
The crass irony of being forbidden to photograph the show (except the climactic "Shadows" room) did not escape me.
But Ms. Bordelon's staging lacks the sustained thrum of anxiety required to justify the play's climactic eruption into violence.
Hallucinations come to life, and real life takes on surreal qualities, leading up to a climactic fancy-dress ball.
Both coaches and athletic directors have bemoaned the early scheduling, preferring the match-up's more climactic position of old.
Trump's likely decision in May to remove the US from the Iran nuclear deal could be a climactic moment.
All that emphasis grew wearying, even deadening, and the climactic judgment scene was slowed to the point of trudging.
In a climactic early scene before a public gathering, Marfa, Ivan's widow, is called forth to identify her son.
We are engaged in a climactic effort to free the largest remaining strongholds in Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqa).
The role-playing exercise instead continues, with the chorus narrating Didon's climactic funeral pyre and the birth of Rome.
We're only looking at characters who we see killed or who vanish on screen during the movie's climactic end.
The song builds to a climactic horn-and-string layered peak, a key change thrown in for extra uplift.
If at times the story seems too inventive (somehow there's a climactic highway chase), the physical comedy is perfectly executed.
In the climactic scene, Stone performs a hauntingly beautiful tune that Stone admits was a tough one to get through.
This scene is a big climactic one, and you can see a peek of it in the film's official trailer.
The Takata-supplied air bag inflators may deploy improperly in a crash after long-term exposure to certain climactic conditions.
During Native Son's climactic juncture, Bigger returns to the Dalton's home with Mary after joining her at a friend's party.
In the final, climactic exhibition, Andrea makes a brilliant showing: Cucumbers, orange slices, and exhaustive workouts had trimmed her down.
Reaching a peak like this requires a kind of catharsis or climax, and what's more cathartic or climactic than death?
In the climactic chapter, we see the one thing I think we would miss if we finally ended fraternity culture.
In perhaps his most famous book, the 1963 epistolary text The Fire Next Time, he answered Walter Lee's climactic action.
This is nothing to sneeze at, especially for a project with virtually no publicity and an almost anti-climactic release.
During one of the climactic battle scenes, the evil doll Chucky from "Child's Play" becomes a weapon used by Parzival.
Perhaps the climactic moment of the evening came in Joaquin Phoenix's emotional acceptance speech for the Oscar for Best Actor.
Accompanied by intensely cinematic music, this guy butters up the crowd with anticipation before delivering his brief and climactic performance.
The climactic showdown between Gloria and the evil robot is great, and the film ends with the perfect last line.
They are part of the ineluctable journey to a climactic battle, which in turn points the way towards more films.
" Smith says that her climactic, hysterical cry from the well where Buffalo Bill kept his victims — "I want my mommy!
Hoffman said that his social media campaign reached millions of voters in the climactic months of the 2016 presidential election.
"Avengers: Endgame," a major climactic event, is setting records for advance ticket sales, and fans are already asking for more.
Sarah Jones: I feel like Qyburn's anti-climactic super-weapon actually suits Cersei's turn as the Donald Trump of Westeros.
Behold: As you can see, we've been blessed with peeks at a few scenes that promise a climactic final season.
Schmid's waywardness on the extra hole, however, was an anti-climactic end to a match otherwise worthy of a final.
Similarly, White praises Grant's assimilationist "peace policy" toward American Indians, but skips over the climactic wars fought under his aegis.
During Red's climactic march to the final showdown, glacial doom metal riffs prevent the audience from feeling truly pumped-up.
Since it takes place in Chile, summer coincides with New Year's Eve, when the movie's big, climactic party takes place.
Even the climactic showdown — lately the dullest, noisiest, least imaginative part of any superhero movie — has a crazy, psychedelic intensity.
And never has it been told so dramatically, with breathtaking detail piled on incredible development, even unto the climactic moment.
At a climactic moment, Ms. Buck — perhaps in a misreading of the phrase "Mater, fons amoris" ("Mother, fount of love")?
As expected, the movie ends with a big tournament, an all-Asia competition, and a climactic match: India versus Iran.
In this staging, a climactic aria for Aci becomes a veritable mad scene, which Ms. Braid delivered with unhinged intensity.
In any case, the noisy proceedings eventually work their way to a climactic group sword fight with a pirate theme.
Like most Marvel movies, the climactic portion of the film winds up being too chaotic, and a bit too long.
He explained that it will evaluate climate data and determine if specific climactic changes pose a risk to individual plants.
Bronson-Bartlett and Fernandez include in their collection a fairly direct translation of "Un Coup de Dés," Mallarmé's climactic experiment.
Alex Abad-Santos, Vox Endgame's climactic battle sequence is easily the most colossal and spirit-soaring superhero brawl ever created.
For a climactic conversation between Lily and Forest in the Devs lab, neither Garland nor Hardy are watching in person.
And after the climactic scene and then the curtain, Mr. Zajac was, as always, waiting in the wings, stage left.
In less than a week, we'll also know whether they impacted one of the most climactic elections in American history.
And thankfully for those put in danger, the conclusions are usually anti-climactic, with a suspect cornered and then handcuffed.
With killing this shocking, this jarring, this pleasurable, this thrilling, this grotesque, this climactic, who would want it to stop?
He's looking forward to the Armageddon: to the climactic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
It's the fifth song on the album, and the nine following it don't even try to touch its climactic fury.
If The Death and Life of Great American Cities was Jacobs's masterpiece, her climactic battle came a few years later.
Her season of The Bachelorette was building toward a one-kneed zenith; ending it with just dating would've been anti-climactic.
For the finale's climactic hospital scene, Adlon worked with a birthing coach to make sure the labor pain sounded adequately wrenching.
The Emmy-winning duo explained previously they wanted to spend a year and a half making the fantasy show's climactic round.
So vividly had she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps.
It is widely expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court either way, setting up a possible climactic decision in 2020.
Moritz, a character in the play, shot himself, and his ghost returned to argue with Cameron in the climactic graveyard scene.
How did you go about constructing a story that touched on the books' climactic moments while still charting its own path?
She was bound to lose, but made things even worse for herself by a calamitous performance in the climactic televised debate.
Without a climactic finish to keep viewers riveted, the peak of 115.5 million was reached from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
Not to be anti-climactic about it or anything, but I think the BeatsX and the Jabra Sport Pulse both win.
Not that United's manager Jose Mourinho would entertain the idea of it having been a bit of an anti-climactic affair.
Both were created in part by Jonathan Nolan, and both hinge on the concealment of characters' motives until the climactic twists.
Why is a piece of fruit, deboned and dismembered, the best way to illustrate the climactic apotheosis of their emotional union?
The day of the climactic vote, Thursday, began with what is undoubtedly the craziest interview ever given by a sitting president.
I say "slightly" only because Endgame's climactic battle sequence is easily the most colossal and spirit-soaring superhero brawl ever created.
The climactic train sequence is heroic and thrilling, but it lasted only a few minutes in each of its participants' lives.
Interestingly, the climactic act of violence in "Joker" appears to draw from a real-life incident, but flips it upside down.
Ms. Coughlan and, especially, Mr. Isaac-Jones field this so deftly that a climactic twist seems both surprising and entirely necessary.
That brief work's stark cries of heraldry served as a moving, climactic end to a show that was paced to entertain.
This formal blending, pioneered in children's books by Brian Selznick, is used only occasionally here, often during a climactic action scene.
The climactic sequence of "It" sacrifices horror-movie creepiness for action-movie bombast, staging a big fight in a cavernous space.
The infernal chaos of the climactic sequences are pure Hieronymus Bosch, updated for the age of Kristen Wiig and automatic weaponry.
Fox nuked all the performance videos from their YouTube page, so here's someone filming their TV during the show's climactic finale.
And here, in the ecstatic, climactic scene of love, death and transfiguration that ends Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," Ms. Nilsson delivers.
The title of this movie proves unusually apt: You will figure out its climactic plot twist within the first 10 minutes.
Ms. Sriram, on the other hand, seems a bit too fresh to credibly deliver the climactic confessions of her damaged character.
In late spring of 2012, climactic chaos descended upon the Midwest and Great Plains in the midst of the growing season.
In the book's climactic section, Harding shadows the new mayor as he tries to rebuild the city's cultural and economic life.
James Verini arrived in Iraq just as "the climactic battle" of the war against the Islamic State was about to begin.
And debt frames Act III's climactic situation in the Hard Times Whiskey Distillery, Kentucky Route Zero's most daring and bizarre scene.
Instead, she steps into a puddle, and out into 18th century Scotland, where finding Jamie turns out to be almost anti-climactic.
Wednesday's full moon in Taurus illuminates your house of distant travels and higher education, bringing your school projects to a climactic peak.
The climactic sequence of the film is a seven-minute long shot in which explosions and gunshots burst forth from every direction.
King Uther fights to defeat them, but after the climactic battle against Mordred, he wants to return to the peaceful status quo.
She does not shy away from violence, but nor does she revel in it; most notably, the climactic battle is barely described.
I should warn you that, yes, this is the kind of medical drama that might play a Coldplay song during climactic moments.
There are those magical tension-and-release sword fight moments scattered all throughout, but the movie's climactic showdown never fails to disappoint.
If that felt a little anti-climactic to you, the event at the end of the month will likely change your mind.
People got excited about their place in the waitlist to use the Mailbox email app, yet the eventual rollout was anti-climactic.
It included a meticulous recreation of the real event, and the climactic joke involved a … creative approach to winning over Disrupt attendees.
The first half-dozen episodes of Kimmy Schmidt's second season are mostly spent bringing everyone back together after last season's climactic trial.
Mr. Brown's decision is the latest sign that California is shaping up as a climactic end to the Democratic nominating session. Mrs.
From the first scene to the last, Avengers: Infinity War felt like 2 hours and 40 minutes of climactic scenes, sutured together.
Lead single "All the Stars" with K Dot and SZA feels like it's tailor made for a climactic coming-of-age scene.
" In the climactic scene, Harris, played by Denzel Washington, threatens a group of men, saying, "I'm putting cases on all you bitches!
What struck him most was the way it handled the climactic "land of the free," which is typically wrung for maximum emotion.
Now our CineFix series, Homemade Movies, serves up a shot-for-shot remake of the movie's climactic scene using cheap, homemade effects.
Bao Yu is defiant, but his love for Dai Yu is ultimately thwarted in a bride swap during a climactic wedding scene.
The New York Philharmonic's climactic season finale is the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang's opera prisoner of the state.
Then there's that climactic moment when Yorke suddenly lets loose a long scream, all the more effective for appearing out of nowhere.
On Friday, its lead story on Hillary Clinton's climactic address was an item about Bill Clinton being "caught napping" during the remarks.
Scientists and journalists don't talk about the last two years because short-term trends don't matter when measuring long-term climactic changes.
It felt anti-climactic for the penultimate episode — a zero sum, or a deficit, if you missed BenDeLaCreme's ingenuity, which I did.
"Before the Flume Renaissance, pretty much everyone was accomplishing their climactic moments with deep bass sounds and well-timed drums," Kitty says.
As he did in the far superior "About a Boy," Mr. Grant makes a climactic onstage appearance at a school talent show.
She described how they left together shortly before the end in Washington, missing the climactic aria for the character called Mother Chen.
Sure enough, as the Tour reaches a climactic stage, the novel bends the parallel tracks of its narrative together in catastrophic collision.
As for the climactic battle, Isabel is the first to acknowledge it's not a guns-blazing showdown but a campaign of attrition.
And while everything clicks thematically (and symbolically), you may feel that the characters are being pushed into climactic positions by authorial hands.
Still, the trailer for the episode teases, it's the perfect stage to some of the series' most climactic moments to play out.
They are the ones at the center of this story, and their battle is what carries the book to its climactic conclusion.
And Ms. Clarke gives final, devastating voice to this awareness in a climactic aria that seems to shake the theater's very foundations.
" According to the author who was asked to novelize it, the climactic scene had "Kirk slugging it out on the bridge with Jesus.
In the climactic scene, [minor spoiler] Silver's character Maggie wakes up trapped in a basement, chained to a pole wearing a dog collar.
Today is Rosenmontag, or "Rose Monday" in Germany, the climactic day of Carnival that features huge parades in cities like Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Inevitably, the climactic sequence rages on too long, and the resolution is, even by the genre's standards, a bit too quick and tidy.
In an unusual move, most of them sat in their states during the climactic roll call, eyeing Republicans as they cast their votes.
During a climactic passage in the "Dirge" section, Mr. Thibaudet vividly conveys the unsettling nervousness of the music, even during seemingly pensive stretches.
And Ms. Calderoni gives vivid life to some of Mr. Eugenides's most startling set pieces, including a climactic sequence in a freak show.
Kumble told Cosmopolitan that Counting Crows, after seeing an early cut of the movie, recorded "Colorblind" for Sebastian and Annette's climactic sex scene.
Thursday's meeting was largely anti-climactic as party stalwarts kept a lid on Yue's proposal and even removed some other measures from consideration.
At one point during the big climactic showdown, I realized I'd stopped even trying to process what was happening in front of me.
The soundtrack draws heavily from the discography of Japanese indie band The Pillows, whose wistful brand of alt-rock underscores every climactic scene.
Scenes are longer and more tense; the set itself acts as a part of the story, especially in the movie's most climactic scene.
The Battle of Winterfell is the climactic showdown the entire HBO series has been pointing to since Season One way back in 2011.
The ace starter made a brief appearance during the episode's climactic battle, playing a Lannister soldier who throws a spear with deadly results. .
Maybe this particular story is especially hard to translate to film, given its setting and wordy—and therefore easily over-stuffed—climactic reveal.
Tuesday May 10th is of course the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, the oft delayed climactic chapter of Nathan Drake's saga.
Anyone who's ever tried this move at home will know that it's a nice idea in theory, but pretty anti-climactic in practice.
But the show also reproduced some movie moments, like good-girl Sandy's climactic transformation into a black-clad temptress, almost note for note.
Overall, despite the headlines that will come out about Trump fomenting a hideous insurrection, Las Vegas was fairly predictable and oddly anti-climactic.
That's true of the climactic mano a mano as well, though the mood is grimmer and the sense of personal grievance more intense.
The manic tone, in fact, actually recalls Ray Liotta's coked-out character during the climactic arc of "Goodfellas," which is clearly the intention.
As important, it also blends beautifully with Ms. Erivo's, and their climactic first-act duet becomes a tender, erotic intermingling of kindred spirits.
But first, he said, he is especially looking forward to the "Tanglewood On Parade" concert in August, which ends with some climactic Tchaikovsky.
The speculation that Wiseau hails from a part of the former communist bloc is echoed in a climactic chapter of The Disaster Artist.
"Joe's big struggle is to be taken seriously," he said, promising a climactic "'Glengarry Glen Ross,' rally-the-troops speech" by his character.
The Libermans' VFX artists added dancing flames, floating embers and, for the climactic moment when the character catches fire, pillars of white smoke.
In climactic outbursts, when she summoned all her smoldering power, Ms. Netrebko sent phrases slicing through the brassy orchestra and into the house.
His climactic "I have lived long enough" finds more power in a single line than the entirety of the R.S.C.'s brisk reckoning.
Both Bruckner's symphony and "The Firebird" require a careful marshaling of forces so that the climactic moments late in the game really soar.
Once that critical document has been finalized, it must be approved by the European Parliament and by British lawmakers in a climactic vote.
And when Daenerys and her dragons attacked in the episode's climactic battle, all three were as one in their delighted, open-mouthed awe.
Attempts to complicate the characters' psychology backfire, and their climactic ascent from the underworld, the one thing that worked perfectly downtown, now doesn't.
They inevitably include the harrowing, climactic piece about a young mother in a disastrously destructive relationship (performed with scalding intensity by Jayme Lawson).
The story eventually brings him face to face with a dragon, with a climactic showdown that's immediately followed by... hastily executed rectal surgery?
At the climactic moment backstage, a crew member shouted "Oh my God" as the jubilant producers of "La La Land" thanked their families.
I understand the yearning not to muddle through, for a big, climactic finish to both the Trump presidency and the American national nightmare.
The full moon in Aries brings a climactic focus to your financial situation, helping you deepen your understanding of your relationship to money.
I can't say any more about this climactic sequence, or the sublimely witty coda that follows, without violating the Brown code of omerta.
This is the Democratic argument, four days before the South Carolina primary, and just a week before the climactic Super Tuesday primary contests?
Yet it also invokes the oceanic feeling of a being at one with the universe that dovetails with a climactic family road trip.
And once George's art has the vital emotional hook that arrives in this climactic song, the rest of the play falls into place.
During the film's telling, climactic moment — when Rodrigues finally tramples on the fumie — you can hear a rooster crow somewhere in the distance.
It's the climactic moment of the comic's 100th issue, and to this day remains one of the series' most upsetting displays of pure evil.
This doesn't happen in the movie — the relationship is strained, but a little less so, and there is no climactic fight or resulting understanding.
And while that video has a nice climactic moment when the front panel of the tape falls off, the VHS tape is far superior.
Mr Djokovic dominated the climactic tiebreak to secure his 16th career major title, only four behind the all-time record held by his opponent.
Set after Finn finds Rey, this scene shows the two of them escape from Starkiller Base, before their climactic final battle with Kylo Ren.
The closing track is the Chris Martin collaboration "Beach Chair," a song so dour and anti-climactic that West's grudge against Hov seemed absurd.
There's even a moment, shortly before the climactic murder that ends the first act, when a few desiccated leaves flutter wanly to the stage.
The sign here is written in Arabic, so it's a safe bet that the climactic battle seen in the trailers takes place in Egypt.
"Contrapasso" retreads much of what we've seen in past episodes, including the climactic moments: Dolores's shootout and Maeve waking up in the control center.
I suppose you could argue that the ending was a bit anti-climactic, but frankly, there were about six endings leading up to it.
For many reasons, the climactic battle between good and evil at a fictional wizarding school is a poor analogy for the 2016 presidential race.
Writing in Science today, Alley argues that many of the climactic and ecological changes that occurred 55.9 million years ago are likely to repeat.
A La Niña this fall isn't a surefire thing, but this latest climactic drama makes the anti-El Niño pattern more likely than ever.
It's her efforts that helped gay activists lay the foundation for weeklong celebrations of gay pride leading up to the climactic Gay Pride Parade.
Call the lightsaber continuity departmentAppears: 2:31 Toward the end of the film, it's time for the climactic battle between Rey and Kylo Ren.
The fights are shorter and lack Lee's elegance and grandiose sweep, and the wire-work is kept to a minimum until the climactic battle.
In the big climactic battle, Colossus cradles an impaled Deadpool in his arms, invoking imagery of knights rescuing smitten princesses as swelling music plays.
I never actually made the game's climactic final jump, because it decided that falling to my death in the general vicinity was good enough.
In one climactic scene, gravely dehydrated men are dragged from their vessel by rescuers, and flop into a dinghy like a haul of fish.
He still gets plenty of action, including the climactic fight, and a ridiculous motorcycle-stunt sequence that echoes Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.
"Spamilton" emphasizes this point by recreating the climactic moment at the last Tony Awards ceremonies, when Barbra Streisand presented the statue for best musical.
The man started clapping and cheering again "really loudly" during a climactic gunfight, he said, and got "belligerent" when people told him to quit.
The climactic three-way — one of Rossini's most inspired, shape-shifting ensembles, with lines tumbling over one another like lovers — throws off genuine sparks.
Stunningly, Ms. Graham began that climactic line first at a near-shout, then at a near-whisper, with musical values always in perfect control.
The finale is protracted to the point of exhaustion, as the music hits a climactic wall and then runs into it again and again.
Sex can be goal-driven, and perhaps it's the ultimate goal-driven activity, since everyone involved is probably hoping for a nice, climactic ending.
When distended and redistributed by the ambisonic speaker system, these brought across a nightmarish, climactic power similar to that of the film's final shots.
From inside the building where the climactic personnel decisions of "The Apprentice" were once taped, Corrigan oversaw the staffing of 10 different domestic agencies.
Mr. Perkins was in New York rehearsing for a Broadway show, so Ms. Epper donned Norman's unbecoming dress and wig for the climactic scene.
In this video feature, Green takes a closer look at a climactic sequence in which Laurie Strode must face Michael in a final showdown.
Mr. Moore envisioned the film as having a climactic scene in which he would out himself as a whistle-blower at an asbestos conference.
And do they need a climactic finale — complete with one member in a bedazzled wheelchair — featuring moves that make the Funky Chicken look refined?
WASHINGTON — As Syria's seven-year civil war enters a climactic phase, the Trump administration is grappling with how to address the emerging political dynamics.
Bottoms are typically processes punctuated by climactic events and seeing breadth indicators stabilize would be an encouraging sign that such a process is underway.
The considered quality of Ms. Copeland's performance kept up through the climactic scene in which Giselle, learning of Albrecht's deception, goes mad and dies.
Then you'll be able to clean up like a champ once the inevitable, anti-climactic blowout happens like it does pretty much every year.
Carol Haddon, a Cubs season-ticket holder for 45 years, drove with three friends from Chicago to Cleveland for Wednesday's tense, climactic Game 1083.
The stars of Star Wars: The Force Awakens spent three months physically training for the movie's climactic fight — sometimes with lightsabers, sometimes without them.
In one of the climactic moments of Monty Python's "Life of Brian," a huge crowd of starry-eyed followers mistakes Brian for the Messiah.
But that doesn't require much more than five seconds to take on board, let alone the entire opening sequence of the season's climactic episode.
One thinks, too, of the bequest of climate change left unchecked in a climactic watery tableau that threatens to swallow all three characters whole.
The radiant soprano Jennifer Zetlan appears in a brief, climactic late scene as a messenger with news that the Union has won the war.
When it was finally revealed on Monday that the "b" in IHOb stands for burgers, some saw the news as a little anti-climactic.
There are now two episodes left in season four, which Moffat and Gatiss have called "climactic" and have hinted may be the show's last.
And on January 2, he posted his final video, of Link's climactic battle with the Zelda series big bad, Ganon (or Ganondorf, if you prefer).
While some fans found Cersei's end rather anti-climactic, Lena Headey, who plays the character, told Entertainment Weekly that she came around to the idea.
Major story beats, on the other hand, like fights, chance meetings, or climactic mahjong games, almost invariably happen outside in the cold light of day.
And as with many of these films, the final climactic moment, deferred till the end, features Ennis — the less expressive of the two — finally emoting.
Many of Earth's mightiest heroes are still dealing with the loss of their close friends who faded into dust during Infinity War's most climactic moment.
Last year, someone had to be sent to the emergency room for an I/V drip, but for me, herbal purgatives are mercifully anti-climactic.
But mere days before the mission, NASA canceled the historic spacewalk for an anti-climactic reason: they didn't have enough spacesuits to fit the astronauts.
There's a bet involved, because of course there is, and a climactic prom scene featuring choreographed group dance to "The Rockafeller Skank," because it's 1999.
By the film's climactic standoff, between one of the wives and her not-so-dead husband, the women of Widows have earned their action stardom.
The newest teaser for "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" contains a climactic moment that has fans buzzing: Rey wielding a double-bladed red lightsaber.
I don't just mean that their pleasures seem more routine than revelatory, or that they feature climactic scenes so similar as to be almost identical.
It never regains the campy absurdity of that climactic scene, nor does it sustain subtle tension and unease in service of a well-earned twist.
He lets loose a climactic scream when he's face-to-face with a cop he saw gun down a black man earlier in the film.
In it, Taube and a few friends recreate the film's climactic suicide scene—dress-humping and all—in the middle of a crowded ice rink.
The movie zips to a commonplace climactic set piece, with two admittedly nifty computer-generated monsters battling it out to decide the fate of humankind.
Much of the Resistance is exhausted by last year's push to retake the House and deflated by the anti-climactic aftermath of the Mueller report.
After lunch, Friedkin makes me descend the Stairway to Hell, the 75 steps in the movie's climactic scene that I had avoided my whole life.
The climactic light show is a drama of cinematic communication (and communion) in which nothing (and everything) is communicated — at least on the big screen.
But the Dodgers won the next day at the Giants' home turf, the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, setting the scene for the climactic game.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian militant group Hamas is preparing for a climactic confrontation after weeks of protests at the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel.
I forgot that the full answer, HARD TO STARBOARD, punctuated a climactic moment in the Titanic epic right before the big ship comes a cropper.
In one rehearsal, when she was playing dead in a climactic scene, Norvill said she opened her eyes to discover Rush simulating groping her breasts.
The climactic scenes, in which the three cops are pursued and cornered in an apartment building by angry masked teens looking for payback, are terrifying.
Massive ice is like a layered record of a planet's climate, and would contain all kinds of information about the past climactic patterns on Mars.
The Rams in particular were blessed by the referees, who failed to note and penalize a glaring case of pass interference in the climactic minutes.
Having made themselves vulnerable to one another, they ask themselves, in the movie's climactic scene, whether they will acknowledge one another in school on Monday.
They end up getting pulled into the climactic event of the movie: She has to impersonate a prostitute and he has to impersonate a pimp.
Ms. Smith gives her emotional all to numbers like the climactic heartbreak ballad "The Music That Makes Me Dance," and she's truly touching in those moments.
In anticipation of the climactic moment, Mashable and other reporters chatted with showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman about The Big Moment and what it means moving forward.
It would return in his most famous tunes, notably the climactic solo of "All Along the Watchtower" and the swaggering start of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)".
Taxi activity's lowest level in New York coincided with the climactic moment of the game, just as Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson at 9:59 p.m.
Neither Erich von Falkenhayn, the chief of the German General Staff, nor his French counterpart, Joseph Joffre, had ever envisaged a climactic, decisive battle at Verdun.
Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game.
That said, it does have a climactic guitar solo, which offers a sliver of hope that you might white-knuckle your way through the shit anyway.
He detailed it in heartbreaking, humane fashion in his journal in November 1956, one month after three coordinated bombings kick-started the climactic Battle of Algiers.
About 40 hours into my time with Fire Emblem: Three Houses, as the game's first half was coming to a climactic conclusion, I swelled with pride.
" For the unfamiliar, perhaps the most climactic verse of Young M.A.'s summer breakout banger "Ooouuu" is the punchy, pause worthy line "you call her Stephanie?
The envelope was at the center of a climactic moment in the final episode of the Jinx, in which Durst was the central and willing participant.
This season finds Murdock bouncing back following The Defenders' climactic cave-in, which seemingly doomed him and his on-again, off-again, sociopath soul mate Elektra.
In 1835, the Italian bel canto composer Gaetano Donizetti chose the instrument to accompany Lucia di Lammermoor's climactic mad scene in the opera named for her.
The images also suggest the roiling tensions incited by Akhnaten's rule, as opposition builds up to the climactic confrontation in which he is deposed and killed.
I'm really not sure it will, and the investigation, when completed, could turn out to be quite anti-climactic and not draw a conclusion about that.
"Fortnite" creator Epic Games closed the book on the game's first phase with a climactic event on October 13 that left "Fortnite" offline for two days.
Now that the teaser is available on YouTube, fans are going wild with theories about the most climactic moment: Rey wielding a double-bladed red lightsaber.
With much of the action taking place on a train, you'll be on the edge of your seat, especially during the climactic and emotional final act.
In a climactic sequence, Deborah and her cousin (John Beasley) pray for God's deliverance from pain in a revival-style tableau while a discomfited Rebecca watches.
Rick doubles down on his commitment to war in the climactic walkie-talkie chat with Negan, swearing that he will fight on for his absent son.
It's just the right amount of unsettling — like what you'd expect to hear in the background after a confounding, climactic scene in a great Lynch film.
Ironically, the major character most deeply affected by the climactic battle in "The Spoils of War" may be the one who wasn't even on the battlefield.
And the crowd went wild for the climactic first act number that finds "the world turned upside down" when the underdog Americans finally win their war.
It was the decisive battle in the war against the Islamic State, in ways the climactic battle of what we once called the War on Terror.
But Trump's decision to replace Sessions with Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney, means a potential climactic moment for Mueller could arrive sooner than Democrats had hoped.
Mr. Wiesel was to light one of six torches at the climactic ceremony, a torch dedicated to his father's memory, and to say a few words.
Its breathless climactic presentation of the ethical threats of cloning aptly conjures a major cultural fixation of 20 years ago; now, though, it feels amusingly overhyped.
Editorial With Russia standing accused of meddling in American politics and in Syria and Ukraine, new revelations about Russian doping in sports might seem anti-climactic.
Fleabag is constantly leaving her body during climactic moments (sex, breakdowns, fights) and turning directly to the audience with snarky commentary on whatever debacle is unfolding.
The courier François, described by London as "swarthy" and a "half-breed," is now Françoise (Cara Gee), and the climactic attack by Native Americans never happens.
The climactic action of the revolt is not entirely unlike those city-smashing scenes out of something by Marvel: all bravado, very little of the spirit.
Likely set after Han Solo's death, this scene will probably show Rey and Finn's escape from Starkiller Base, before their climactic final battle with Kylo Ren.
The second film also scales up the level of production just a bit, with a climactic train chase that would have blown the first movie's budget.
After playing a clip of CNN revealing the anti-climactic news with the caveat that "the cloud of suspicion … is still there," Bee couldn't contain her exasperation.
And yes, I could quibble with a few choices here and there, particularly when it comes to the movie's score and a couple of its climactic scenes.
But the author's Wall Street Journal day job bled through, sapping the book of emotion and preventing it from seizing the grandeur of the tale's climactic moments.
This installment of Design FX goes into the studio's process for making Season 4's climactic fight between two of Maslany's clones: Sarah Manning and Rachel Duncan.
"I really thought the climactic scene where the Beast shows up was just one of the most riveting things I've ever seen committed to television," he says.
From the shocking beginning, to the many revelations, to the introduction of a beloved King character at the midpoint, to the climactic end, I was never bored.
The shadow of Infinity War is a stark, dark one, and Endgame only has one real job: to move the MCU forward past Infinity War's climactic horror.
For the US broadcast, the climactic scenes, and much of the rest of the final episode, was abandoned entirely, with the bombing left as a possible future.
It is not clear in quite what way J.R.R. Tolkien meant the word when he named the climactic locale in "The Lord of the Rings" Mount Doom.
He spent Wednesday beguiling the media and playing on the hopes of his final few candidates to build tension, drama and -- perhaps -- a climactic final plot twist.
The scenes when Santa sings are among the truly surreal MST3K moments of wonder, topped only by the hilarious riffing sequence that accompanies his climactic sleigh ride.
As performed by Emma Stone, the half-spoken, half-sung monologue that follows — a swelling, climactic scene in Damien Chazelle's La La Land — is Mia's crowning achievement.
A lineup of stark images—a butterfly wing, a dog's soft tuft of fur—build to a climactic scene depicting the carnal side of the animal world.
Chalk it up to general wokeness in the Purge-verse, what we are to understand is a growing sentiment in the wake of Anarchy's bloody climactic uprising.
A theater review on Thursday about "Long Day's Journey Into Night," at the American Airlines Theater in Manhattan, misidentified the character who has a climactic drunk scene.
Most notably, he names his mental illness as a specific motivation for violence at the end of his climactic monologue, which sounds like the movie's thesis statement.
SCOTT I think what pleased me most about this "Ghostbusters" was how matter-of-fact — how chill — the movie was, notwithstanding the bombast of the climactic battle.
There's not even a climactic part where they say, 'Despite this awful pain and hurt, I still love you and we're going to work through this, sweetie!
For what it's worth, I didn't have any trouble watching Sunday's climactic battle episode of "Game of Thrones" — but it seems plenty of other viewers did. 4.
But there are moments when even the climactic spectacle, with American bombers pounding the mountainsides, are upstaged by the sight of the wind moving in the leaves.
The bows at the end are staged as if in an opera house, and snippets from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" prove crucial to the climactic scene.
The first feature's $21959 million budget made it the most expensive silent film ever produced, and its climactic chariot race set a new standard for action scenes.
He was at his best, though, when it mattered most, during the climactic episode of Act II in Minnie's cabin, where she is protecting the wounded Johnson.
For a young player, maybe this is their first third round — but I have played a number of them; it's going to feel less climactic to me.
According to the suit, Clanton also claims the 2 tracks have the same climactic moment and the same 2/4 time signature of two beats per measure.
On a tactical basis, it means watching for signs of climactic selling, rising fear levels and oversold conditions that often accompany the end stage of a pullback.
The other day, he was sitting in a deserted café near the Pompidou, the site of the book's most chastely climactic scene, drinking a menthe à l'eau .
In addition to an emotionally charged graduation ceremony, the docuseries' final episode includes another climactic event: The Eastern Correctional Facility's October 2015 debate victory over Harvard University.
Over all, the characters' melodrama is unwarranted; the final climactic event that Alix thinks "felt like the plot twist of a horror movie" is actually quite predictable.
On the contrary, the destruction of the caliphate, in which Mosul was the climactic struggle, may have meant the expansion of the idea of the Islamic State.
The climactic four-part pas de deux of Mr. Ratmansky's "The Nutcracker" (2010) was delivered on Wednesday evening by Hee Seo and Mr. Gomes with complete mastery.
So, though my eyes occasionally glazed seeing "War Paint" for the second time, I wouldn't have missed it, if only to hear its leading ladies' climactic ballads.
In the novel, a climactic bout takes place between Billy Tully, an aging contender making another stab at the big time, and a Mexican fighter named Lucero.
In an interview, the director Chris McKay discussed how the song came to be and why he decided to begin the movie with a climactic action sequence.
Here are the climactic lyrics of Sam Cooke 's version of "Frankie and Johnny": Frankie reached down in her pocketbook And up with a long forty-four.
Yes, this New Group production, directed by Scott Elliott, does feature simulated sex and copious drug use and one climactic fight that draws plenty of stage blood.
The film's most pivotal and personal moments leave him out; during a climactic confrontation with Marziyeh's family, Panahi hands over the reins of the story to Jafari.
The pretty anti-climactic results arrive after a lengthy and historic campaign spearheaded by Prime Minister John Key, whose Flag Consideration Project officially kicked off last year.
Higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere along with abnormally warm temperatures in the Arctic bring us perilously close to triggering a number of unstoppable climactic feedback loops.
Mr. Christie's recalibration on guns reached its climactic point in June, when he issued an executive order creating a commission on New Jersey's process for issuing gun permits.
Ultimately one could say it's better to be the climactic death of the season 7 finale than potentially one of several major events within the final season, right?
Sunday's episode chronicled the climactic Battle of Winterfell, a lavishly produced 82-minute siege where a collection of disparate heroes faced off against the Army of the Dead.
This skepticism about Wakanda is both Black Panther's greatest strength and, ultimately, the reason its climactic battle lets down the rest of the movie just a little bit.
The gorgeously costumed actors pose like statues—with climactic moments of ferocious activity—and their sepulchral voices, accompanied by flute and drum, create the momentum of a dream.
If the committee votes as currently planned on Friday, McConnell can set the motions in place for a climactic vote on the Senate floor as early as Monday.
Adi: Speaking of Ares, I couldn't tell whether the movie was subverting expectations, or just doing a bad job of foreshadowing a climactic fight that never really comes.
One of the clearest-eyed is Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, which presses ever onward, from Milkman's prehistory to his birth, childhood, adulthood, and a climactic confrontation. Simple.
In some places — most notably Harry's climactic confrontation with dull, stammering Professor Quirrell and a Voldemort who has not yet managed to acquire a personality — it's downright weak.
But there's always sugar in the shadows, even in that climactic fantasy sequence when Captain Hook materializes to tell Barrie to get in touch with his dark side.
"Memory," and specifically the moment when the diva of the evening wails, "Touch me!" on a climactic high note, is the song audiences wait two hours to hear.
The unhappy couple settle in England, where Antoinette's cultural displacement and isolation—and Rochester's betrayal—lead to the climactic fire of both "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea".
Another major risk Game of Thrones faced in its second season was that it was based on A Clash of Kings—a book that's more transitional than climactic.
By the time news surfaced last Tuesday evening that Trump had reportedly asked Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn back in February, the epiphany almost seemed anti-climactic.
Trumbo has a climactic speech about the blacklist years being "a time of fear" and "evil" in which "scores of people lost their homes, their families...their lives".
Cleveland's Indians, who took the Cubs to extra innings of a climactic Game Seven to decide MLB's championship, top a bunch of worthy contenders standing in their way.
In these motion pictures, filmmakers typically allowed the audience only a brief glimpse of the villain — for the most part, the climactic action was concealed just off screen.
For his most climactic endeavor, Coyne says he tried to post an anti-apartheid petition on the door of the South African embassy, and was arrested for trespassing.
But a scientist who studies the climactic impacts of nuclear war is warning that deaths from a bomb's impact and radiation are not the only dangers to consider.
Each is insignificant in the general scheme of things, but laid out in a row just days before a climactic Empire shareholders meeting, they add up to incompetence.
On Join Hands, their sophomore effort, "Icon" plays out like a movie with Siouxsie's voice rising to a climactic moment when drums crash and she begins to wail.
If Han Solo murdered Greedo, then his decision to return at the climactic moment of A New Hope to help the Rebellion represents an epiphanic change in character.
That includes a reasonably violent climactic sequence that -- parents should be forewarned -- might be too intense for kids expecting to hear "The Bear Necessities," or some facsimile thereof.
The plot builds up to things like a (quite literally) underground resistance, an alien species threatening the cosmos, and a climactic battle against the alien forces' home base.
Inspired by the real-life abduction of billionaire J. Paul Getty's 16-year-old grandson, the liberties that the film takes become especially pronounced during the climactic act.
But the things she doesn't know still manage to shock her — and the reader — particularly in the novel's climactic episode, a primal scene to trump all primal scenes.
If your first thought at this premise was, "Well then how does childbirth work," then Emily Blunt's climactic scream toward the end of the film is for you.
Mr. Trifonov's youthful impatience is already apparent: This first entrance is so heated, it sounds like a climactic later treatment of the theme has jumped in too soon.
The moment was a little reminiscent of the climactic scene in "A Few Good Men," when Tom Cruise's character elicits an incriminating answer from Jack Nicholson's Marine colonel.
The next presidential primaries could become a climactic test for the awakened Democratic base, with women and candidates of color holding an appeal others might struggle to match.
All told, the almost-coffee-crisis seemed poised to be the most climactic event of what lawmakers called the most uneventful end to the legislative session in years.
"You Oughta Know" is one of the most glaring examples of this, because this song is meant to be the show's climactic showstopper, but it just doesn't fit.
But it avoids the trap many cinematic games fall into: making players repeat a climactic moment over and over because they hit the wrong button at the end.
An essential prop, which functioned as the linchpin for the entire plot and its climactic ascension, was supposed to be brought to me on stage in a basket.
And that's before we arrive at his apotheosis in the episode: his climactic conversation with Shyne, the gangster producer and mogul who's been undermining Lucious's Empire from within.
Carlos Gonzalez's climactic pinch-hit double drove in three to highlight a five-run eighth inning in Colorado's 210-2110 marathon victory over the Rangers on Thursday afternoon.
This incredible voyage, undertaken by the Apollo 11 crew, is widely regarded as the climactic moment of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
At its first performance — "Das Rheingold," back in 2010 — the set's massive array of seesaws malfunctioned near the end, spoiling the gods' climactic ascent across a rainbow bridge.
Only when the auteur's piano saturates the climactic "Time Will Tell" does his vision of romance in perpetual suspended animation regain the poignancy he's so convinced it's worth.
The shows that succeed — especially 1979's Sweeney Todd and 1984's Sunday in the Park With George — succeed in part because of their climactic Act I ballads.
The climactic, um, first round playoff game is where half of the film's numerous loose ends are totally forgotten, and the ones that are more meaningful are picked up.
At a length of 2 hours 13 minutes, this Conjuring doesn't have the coiled tension of the first, or the despair and clenched desperation of the original's climactic exorcism.
She's part of the climactic reveal in the Na'vi River Journey, a family-friendly "dark ride" that takes guests on a river tour through the bioluminescent forest of Pandora.
It culminates in the shoulder's intensely pale pink-ochres, which wend through space as face and arm before rejoining poignantly as the painting's climactic moment: chin meeting folded fingers.
He shows up on her doorstep for the final scene, which should be sweet and climactic, but the film has completely removed Sierra's agency, so the meaning isn't there.
Eventually, the couple made it to the United States after a climactic journey on the SS Navemar, narrowly dodging German torpedoes en route, accompanied by crates of Chagall's masterpieces.
Even with my terrible Spanish, challenges like taking a taxi from the airport to my hostel were anti-climactic in comparison to the anxiety leading up to the trip.
During the climactic fight with Mysterio, Fury just stands by and watches, without taking any action — he even leaves Maria to snipe the drone that's about to murder him.
Why it matters: One of Game of Thrones' most acclaimed episodes showcases its first climactic battle scene, while one of the show's most beloved characters gets to really shine.
But marketing is usually the enemy of actual experience: movie trailers are designed to make films look exciting, so they tend to give away a film's most climactic moments.
Since full Moons symbolize endings, Mars retrograde leads to arguments, and Venus and Pluto are rubbing each other the wrong way, Sunday is a climactic day for transformative change.
The climactic scene: Chinese security agents reportedly visit Guo's apartment to pressure him to return to China, in violation of their visas and after being warned by the FBI.
That announcement was a little bit anti-climactic, given that the team had been conditionally awarded a year earlier and already had a name, logo, GM, and head coach.
For example, it's her fancy, portable wardrobe backpacks that allow her troop to devise a makshift stretcher and carry Velda to the finishing line at the climactic jamboree showdown.
Each iteration stars different characters with ostensibly different motivations, but the bones are the same, and each story ends with the same climactic battle in the same cinematic style.
But Mr. Scarlett gives us the birth of the Creature as a sound and light show, with gurgling tubes and dazzling flashes, followed by an anti-climactic rush offstage.
Even the 1931 James Whale film, in which Karloff wore green face paint, furthers this figuring of the creature as black: he is, in the film's climactic scene, lynched.
Burton packs in the CGI spectacle, most notably in a rambunctious, nonsensical climactic fight between animated skeletons and faceless monsters on a carnival pier in the dead of winter.
As a senior adviser to President Barack Obama for eight years, I saw Pelosi lead in some of the most climactic negotiations and showdowns with the administration and Congress.
While much of the action does take place on a train, it'll still have you an the edge of your seat, especially during the climactic (and heartrending) final act. 
Nor could he have anticipated that the climactic third debate would fall on the same night as the concert, obviously siphoning off a good part of the potential audience.
THE ARTS A theater review on Thursday about "Long Day's Journey Into Night," at the American Airlines Theater in Manhattan, misidentified the character who has a climactic drunk scene.
But much to my surprise, Jane and Rafael finally having sex and Alba's climactic moment are not, in fact, the only sexual game changers this episode had in store.
If they ever make a definitive teen movie about high school during Obama's first term they'd better use Major Lazer's "Keep It Going Louder" for the climactic party scene.
The transitions in the climactic surfing scene are not seamless: the crowd is clearly in California, whereas the 20-foot waves are being filmed on Sunset Beach in Hawaii.
The big news comes just weeks after the anti-climactic conclusion of Apple's high-profile fight with the FBI over the iPhone used by a San Bernardino terrorism suspect.
About 32 million Americans watched Mr. Trump's climactic acceptance speech on Thursday evening on the major cable news and broadcast channels, according to ratings from Nielsen, released on Friday.
She summons the inner strength to lead a climactic, Ferguson-like demonstration against officers who are armed with tear gas, a conflict filmed to look like a war zone.
There are some passages where I wanted a line for Vernon Sloane—there's a sort of climactic sequence in a cave—and we needed this exchange to be deeper.
The climactic bitterness of "Exit Music (For A Film)" not only depicted the natural arc of processing anger but recreated both of the band's soundtrack contributions to Romeo + Juliet .
I put back his climactic aria in Act III; I think that the biggest difference between 1986 and this adaptation is the way Act III builds to a crisis.
The climactic showdown involves the movie's black hero, Dmitri (Y'lan Noel), against an army of officers wearing garish masks as they murder people of color throughout an apartment building.
The climactic sequence — simple in concept but tensely staged, foregrounding the ticktock of time that's present from the opening minutes — may leave you as breathless as it leaves José.
Things go pretty much where a reader of lad magazines would want them to: climactic game decided at the last second; two gorgeous women competing for the same man.
So it's no surprise that several of the film's most climactic scenes were shot there, including Cher saving Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) from a group of scummy men.
That's not a bad tack, but the creators overcrowd the story here, pulling focus from the characters we care most about and failing to build toward the climactic reunion.
The goodwill, though, begins to evaporate about halfway through, and mostly falls apart in the extended climactic section, which takes place in the abandoned confines of the Overlook Hotel.
The simple but vital action is resolved with a climactic car chase, which is as cleverly constructed in its daring, stunt-based action as in its jolting visual compositions.
There was no blow delivered or boost provided, in soccer's sensationalist argot, no climactic moment that set one team on the road to glory and the other to ignominy.
This was particularly true with Jones, which reached a climactic point around the middle of its first season, then screwed around for several episodes before staging its final battle.
Dumb flesh, male and female alike, was the climactic challenge of painting for Lucian Freud, whose late work grappled ceaselessly with whether a body can ever become a picture.
Keeping them on the same page is easier when there's tangible progress to point to — and when they can be told that the climactic battle for Mosul is imminent.
Most interesting to me in this first episode was the standoff between June and Aunt Lydia, which delves into one of the structural issues with last season's climactic confrontation.
Upon analyzing fossil data, it seemed to them as if astronomical cycles led to climactic effects that ultimately aligned with new species of plankton appearing and going extinct on Earth.
There's a climactic cage match — in an actual cage — between Selene and a transformed werewolf (who keeps his human face), and at the end she rips out his spine. Why?
It's made the final season exciting, full of big action and climactic confrontations, as people who used to be cautious and thoughtful throw themselves into danger without any meaningful plan.
A complicated, semi-climactic battle inside an airborne cargo plane didn't work as well for me: too dark, too noisy, too cavalier in its disregard for the laws of physics.
Everything is clearly meant to be a journey of discovery that builds to the climactic moment when Eleven walks in to help Mike and the other kids near the end.
Athletes everywhere are going for the climactic gold, so much so that a late-night romp with a sexy canoeist ruined a Brazilian diving duo's chances for an actual medal.
Based on their past staredowns beyond the Wall, it feels inevitable that Jon Snow and the Night King are heading towards a climactic, one-on-one duel to the death.
The film actually opens by teasing the climactic race (also splashed across its billboard ads), flashing back eight years to fill in what brought the combatants to the starting line.
Qyburn hands Bronn a giant crossbow, which shrewd fans will recognize as the same one with which Tyrion shot and killed his father in a climactic episode of season four.
We saw an extreme example of this last September, when climactic and astronomical forces combined to bring us a supermoon and a tropical storm (Hurricane Joaquin) at the same time.
Two days after finishing this book, I barely remember the details of Felicity's climactic confrontation with the villain, what either character wanted from the other, or how it all resolved.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Emmy nominee (and previous winner for Thrones) Peter Dinklage broke down Tyrion's emotion in that climactic scene...and it's a lot to process.
It's the third time Uncharted 4 has been delayed; the climactic chapter of Nathan Drake's saga was meant to hit last year before being delayed into March and then April.
Ross: I love a big climactic fight, but honestly, I'm getting really tired of watching Superhero Ensembles Trying to Stop a Cataclysmic Thing Wanting to Destroy the World for Reasons.
It looks like I've edited the footage to make a gif of Jason Schwartzman's wide variety of drum faces as a succinct and climactic end to this piece of content.
Before we get to the big reveal, let's talk about the original squidfall and what the latest episode does to fill us in on that climactic moment in the comics.
The story builds up to a climactic Battle of Agincourt, with help from a supporting cast that includes Ben Mendelsohn, who plays an ailing King Henry IV, and Robert Pattinson.
And that doesn't even count Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Heimdall (Idris Elba), and Vision (Paul Bettany), all of whom bit the dust well before the movie's climactic moment.
Yet well before its formation, subnational governments had recognized the need to reach across political borders to address commonalities such as social policies, environmental and climactic concerns, and economic development.
This riveting duet is based on the climactic scene in which Marty tries to save Doc's life by giving him a letter that also risks disrupting the space-time continuum.
Indeed, his arrival at the nation's highest tribunal in 1987 was as climactic as was his announced retirement -- all because of the focal point he occupied over these three decades.
Big Little Lies' climactic finale answered all of our questions — though by then, many of us guessed the victim was be Celeste Wright's (Nicole Kidman) abusive husband, Perry (Alexander Skarsgård).
As led by Johannes Debus on Monday, in his Met debut, it was surprisingly unsurprising — clear, sensible and muted, even in the crushing climactic chord that seals its antiheroine's doom.
And in a climactic upset in New York last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, felled Representative Joseph Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House.
And her brooding work on contrabass flute wound up serving as a setup for one booming, climactic pulse from Mr. Sorey, working in this moment as drummer and dramatist both.
His dramatic reading of it provided a climactic moment to the popular lecture about the martyred president that he began giving on the anniversary of the assassination, starting in 27.
Not her performance in "The Post," although she's as good as you might already have heard she is, but the performance of a caftan she wears in a climactic scene.
It's not until the climactic final moments that he realizes, to his shock but not to ours, that this morally bankrupt approach has been built on self-deception all along.
In the climactic collapse on Thursday, when the S&P 500 lost 9.5%, everything was for sale, including Treasury securities, whose yields rose in apparent violation of their typical behavior.
When he took the opening set with a single break it was all feeling a little anti-climactic for the neutrals but Shapovalov injected some late drama into the proceedings.
The outburst of "Der Stürmische Morgen" had Beethovenian ferocity; the closing chords of "Das Wirsthaus," while in excess of what's called for in the score, were a climactic gut punch.
After that, "Venom" descends into a series of uninspired action sequences, including a climactic battle that's so dark, rapidly edited and murky it's difficult to identify who's up or down.
What I've learned in life is that often with the big climactic things, or the big things that require courage, we're taken care of, and we can get through it.
In one deceptively climactic scene, his long-suffering wife, Veronica (Elena Sofia Ricci), confronts him, finally ready to leave for good, telling him how inexcusable, how repulsive he really is.
And in the episode's climactic scene, Enzo Scanno (also bested by Lila in the school contest) and his friends hurl stones at Lila, knocking her over and bloodying her head.
This climactic showdown adds ice to the equation, resulting in an inventive, if occasionally hard to follow, mashup of the series' go-to car-based action and high-stakes pyrotechnics.
To illustrate the students' potential, Jonathan puts on a tape of the climactic dance number in the original Center Stage, with a crimson-clad Jody whirling between Charlie and Cooper.
There are a couple places where Robinson takes his eyes off the story right in front of him, and a big, climactic storm feels a little too convenient for the plot.
Grindelwald's climactic monologue is just as muddled: He preaches to his followers that they must oppress nonmagical people because World War II is on the horizon and threatens to destroy everyone.
Visitors will be able to take control of the Millennium Falcon on a "customized secret mission," and also be put into "a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance."
It was an anti-climactic end to an emotional day for the wispy figure who has been beating muscle-bound sprint heavyweights with his light touch for more than two decades.
The game opens with a climactic battle between Heaven and Hell, with Earth stuck in the middle, and yada yada yada—War is the first of the Horsemen to show up.
Our thoughts are very much with the families and communities affected by this climactic event, and we wish them, the government swift recovery and our greatest sympathies to the families affected.
Owing to piracy and ongoing geopolitical tensions, scientists haven't analyzed the OMZ since then, which is problematic given all the climactic changes our planet has experienced over the past several decades.
At the very least don't stick "Purple Rain," a song that works only in climactic position, in the middle between Orleans's "Still the One" and Candi Stanton's "Young Hearts Run Free".
Yet there was electricity in the work's mutability, right up through the finale, when she emerged from a gyrating, climactic encounter with a chair to calmly wish us a pleasurable evening.
During an interview with Good Morning America, Ruffalo shared that while all of the films tended to end in climactic ways, the new movie really took things to the next level.
Meryl Streep, as usual, is regally vulnerable as Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, but with extra vulnerability in the film's first half and climactic regality near the end.
Thus, every Marvel release is an advertisement for the ones which came before and the ones which are coming afterwards—and "Avengers: Endgame" is the climactic 22nd entry in the franchise.
Occasionally, the self-awareness is hilarious, as when secondary characters go out of their way to point out that the climactic battle is taking place in a series of unpopulated areas.
In the Sacramento suburbs, he finds a closed-off dad (Bradley Whitford), and two sisters (Maude Apatow, Madisen Beaty), all three of whom David ignores until a climactic moment of redemption.
It was being used to shoot all the green screen scenes, and today they were shooting a climactic Times Square fight scene, which can be seen in trailers for the film.
Even as he contemplated such an anti-climactic end to his individual career, Bolt was big enough to pay a tribute to Gatlin which swam against the tide of ill-feeling.
The book, by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, and the score, by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, are both nicely turned; and Casey Nicholaw's climactic ballet is a knockout (2:15).
The book, by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, and the score, by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, are both nicely turned; and Casey Nicholaw's climactic ballet is a knockout (00:15).
The book, by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, and the score, by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, are both nicely turned; and Casey Nicholaw's climactic ballet is a knockout (153:143).
After a climactic two-day confrontation regarding gun legislation on the floor last week, the House left Washington for the Independence Day recess, leaving senators alone to go about their work.
That said we risk labeling the moment as anti-climactic because Americans of all ages feel like they know Clinton all too well, and women appear to have achieved so much.
In contrast to "Man of Steel," the sequel "Batman v Superman" takes time to tell audiences its climactic battle pitting the heroes against Doomsday takes places in abandoned areas without civilians.
Seemingly anti-climactic, the film features a series of commentaries, made by a pedestrian strolling around the enormous St. Petersburg Palace Square, where 100 years ago the October Revolution took place.
The movie's climactic scene comes right at the end, when Smith — now being framed by his colleague — stages a one-man filibuster to block an appropriations bill engineered for corrupt ends.
The results of the study of China's northern plain, which includes the capital Beijing, are particularly worrying because many of the region's 400 million people are farmers exposed to climactic conditions.
Especially in a climactic dinner-party scene that is set in an ideal bohemian quasi loft, replete with dark corners where the film's romantic couples can square off or make out.
The duo's real-life collaboration is mirrored during the video's climactic moment, when Cyrus and Lil Nas X stroll into a country-lovin' old folks' bingo game in the present day.
Now, with "Fifty Shades Freed," we've reached what the publicity notes are pleased to call "the climactic chapter" of this titillation trilogy based on the heavy-breathing novels of E.L. James.
She turns the insubstantial doo-wop song "Miss Celie's Pants" into a show-stopping number of liberation and joy, and the climactic anthem "I'm Here" becomes a transcendent moment of catharsis.
The decision to call the stepmother Mother, or the decision not to call her Mother, is often a dramatic hinge in stories about stepmothers, a climactic moment of acceptance or refusal.
Her vocal has her characteristic focused intensity, but as the strings swell toward the climactic ending, Eilish rises to belt a note that is showier than anything on her debut album.
Now, with the peril to nature seeming more acute than ever, the crystal-clear recorded version feels more like artfully focused desperation — and, in the climactic "Water/Sky Rant," choking rage.
Oh, and in case you were wondering how many ships take part in the film's final climactic battle, it's 16,000, and rendering them all took 8.4 million hours of processing time.
And who, having heard the rest — the coke-snorting billionaire bad guy, the climactic battle, the many dystopian flights of fancy — could resist helping Riley get the thing up on screen?
When I compose, I find myself returning to this tradition, particularly as it relates to creating musical drama without a Romantic sense of ebb and flow leading to a climactic moment.
And it reached its third, climactic act in yet another arena in this sun-scorched swing state, as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts redoubled her criticism and volleyed the president's taunt.
Pick: Kansas City 224, Houston 222 Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals (Saturday, 7:15 ET, CBS) These rivals split their regular season games, but this Wild Card meeting feels anti-climactic.
Gentle grooves and softly arpeggiated guitars take the place of sprawling, climactic jams, yet their songwriting is taut enough that the audience is never in danger of being lulled to sleep.
At the climactic graduation party — that enduring staple of the genre — where every senior from school seems to be in attendance, there is no sense of a division among the types.
In a climactic moment in the seventh episode, for example, a gaggle of children on bikes pedal furiously down a suburban road, trying desperately to escape a horde of threatening government agents.
A campaign staffer who requested anonymity to discuss the mood inside PRI headquarters said Sunday&aposs result had been "anti-climactic" and compared it to the death of a very ill relative.
Marina Abramović's Rhythm series saw her slashed with knives, pierced with thorns, and, in the climactic moment that concluded the project, allowed a viewer to hold a loaded gun to her head.
Gentileschi's portrayal of Judith beheading Holofernes, often interpreted as her artistic revenge on Tassi, is enacted in a climactic, bloody revenge scene, with Judith reincarnated on stage as an impassioned feminist foremother.
But the moments that come alive, like that underwater training sequence, or a climactic moment of stalking at an airport, only make the rest of the film look more wandering and indistinct.
Denzel Washington has earned deserved acclaim (not to mention a Tony nomination) for his performance as Hickey, particularly his climactic 20-minute monologue, but Potts delivers speeches that are just as arresting.
Atomic Blonde offers a curated image of Berlin, one that argues that the real hero of Atomic Blonde it is Berlin itself (an argument that is further supported by a climactic monologue).
And if it doesn't end in a climactic gunfight or other setpiece, it's not valuable to the goals of triple-A games, where character and plot are so often beside the point.
He lingers on the climactic passages in which Achilles kills Hector, a Trojan prince, and Priam, the king, comes incognito to beg the Greek hero for the return of his son's body.
Great art doesn't ignore violence, it actively explores the nuance of its power, using it as metaphor, as catalyst for major plot development, as the expression of a climactic release of tension.
If Wonder Woman's major special effects and climactic battles feel perfunctory, this is one movie in which you don't really need to fuss about how impressive (or not) the CGI apocalypse looks.
Borna Coric, 19, of Croatia came back from 2-63 in a climactic decider against Australian Nick Kyrgios by winning five of the last six points to claim the tiebreak 8-6.
At the end of the climactic meeting, on July 9, Zuckerberg sided with Kaplan and announced that he was tabling the decision about adding ways to boost publishers, effectively killing the plan.
As the 10th anniversary of the climactic March 2009 market bottom arrives this week, many observers are focusing on all the ways this period since the global financial crisis has been extraordinary.
Around the climactic ending of the movie, I honestly got a bit emotional, and I could swear I heard Steven sniffling next to me as well (he had a cold, but still).
Understandably: In early 220, stocks made a climactic bear-market bottom with the S&P 20003 hitting a 22000-year low at the end of the worst global recession in 22001 years.
In the play's climactic sequence, words — and worlds — collide as the four performers build a babbling Tower of Babel with everyday, contradictory images of femininity: cupcakes, cellulite, pornography, hymens and high heels.
It is a juggernaut of musical-dramatic invention, and its climactic scenes, depicting the massacre of thousands of Huguenot Protestants by Catholic forces on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572, can still inspire terror.
Small wonder that one of Trump's advisers recently suggested that the candidate not wait until the climactic hour to deliver his remarks but, in a break with precedent, speak every single night.
Every year, in a vast national park about five hours from Cape Town, revelers gather to build giant sculptures, play music and then destroy the sculptures in a climactic auto-da-fé.
Even as the three-year arc of The Secret World's in-game plot came to a climactic conclusion, we continued on Twitter, playacting our characters' private lives, our romances, our little dramas.
In the first's infamous shareware episode-ending level "Phobos Anomaly," which is briefly revisited in A.L.T., a climactic confrontation outside unleashes a couple of Barons Of Hell on you from their slumber.
Roger Brown was traded within a week of when the climactic game was filmed, which is mentioned in the movie; he joined the Los Angeles Rams as one of the Fearsome Foursome.
At the climactic end, Silva adds in his own bullet-time-style effects, plus a tongue-in-cheek nod to Rain Main, in this deluge of an ode to cinematic water droplets.
It was there that she wrote the climactic scene in which Bob Ewell, Mayella's father, attacks Scout and her brother; she scared herself so badly that she ran all the way home.
The singer who might have once boiled over in exaggerated frenzy in "Pace, pace, mio dio" is now as focused in that climactic aria as the slow burn of a candle's wick.
That would have been the story had Liverpool lost, of course, as it might well have done: for all the drama of this Champions League season, this was an anti-climactic final.
His reprise of the climactic Thanksgiving dinner with Nola and her lovers is more playful and ambitious, as if he's nudging his younger self across the decades: Can you do this, kid?
The "Devil Went Down To Georgia" riff "Ballad of Stana" and "Summer of 1353 (Woo a Lady)," meanwhile, are classic Conchords absurdity, right down to a climactic recorder breakdown in the latter.
Baseball is a peculiar sport, filled with dozens of climactic anticlimaxes, and wide pockets of time for digressions into movies or politics or, in Keith's case, deeply felt opinions about uniform design.
Not that Arnold can't stand up to her, and not that she can't stand up to him standing up to her — which turns their climactic face-off into a shattering battle royal.
She impressed the judges by performing the climactic moment from Gounod's rarity "Sapho," in which the heroine hits a high B flat right before she commits suicide by jumping into the ocean.
But don't worry; if for some reason the drawn-out and incoherent battle scenes are what you liked about the earlier films, the climactic one here is still both of those things.
That deadline sets up a potentially climactic series of votes in late December, when lawmakers could be considering impeachment articles against Mr. Trump while racing to avert a holiday season government shutdown.
It's a fast-paced yarn featuring a range of classic adventure-novel tropes: mysterious parentage and secret identities; spying, friendship, and short-lived teenage romance, capped off with a climactic seafaring adventure.
But the climactic battle is expected in the November elections, when conservatives hope to remake the seven-member Supreme Court in a flash, by unseating four justices regarded as moderate or liberal.
There were moments when this past week's climactic meetings of the House Judiciary Committee sounded like a remake of an old highly rated television show with some of the original cast members.
As uttered by Imelda Staunton's Martha, the shocked cry from the heart represents the climactic surrender of the ballsy, take-no-prisoners wife of an academic who isn't quick to accept defeat.
Lloyd, a tenor saxophone luminary and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, maintains Zen-like control, whether searing through a climactic solo or playing a smoothly searching melody at medium tempo.
In the demanding aria "Casta diva," Ms. Meade sang Bellini's ornately embellished phrases with velvety legato; climactic high points in the flowing melody soared over the orchestra, elegantly conducted by Joseph Colaneri.
You could call it anti-climactic, but for that to be true, there'd have to be a sense that there was any sort of dramatic moment being built to to begin with.
Let's see if we can piece this together: Beatty and Faye Dunaway, his co-star from the 50-year-old classic "Bonnie and Clyde," were given the honor of presenting the climactic award.
Much of season 23 is devoted to how Billy dons the mantle of Jigsaw, one of The Punisher's signature villains, following a climactic fight with Frank that left Billy physically and emotionally shattered.
Trump's presidency is coming to an important clarifying moment, Mackowiak said, before helpfully comparing the critical juncture the White House finds itself in as the climactic cliffhanger of a movie — or reality show.
Even after a seemingly climactic scene, where the main character is on the cusp of growing up, the film still gives him the chance to fail one more time and watches the repercussions.
In an anti-climactic finish to the final, both Martinod and Sharpe fell on their final runs but that did not stop both athletes beaming with delight at the top of the podium.
It feels ripped from the climactic scene of one of those sci-fi movies where teens in metallic bodysuits break out of a dystopian maze and make out in a zero gravity chamber.
I had all but forgotten Mr. Brown's yoga sessions, a key component of his midlife crisis, until they proved invaluable during the climactic chase, in which he is obliged to do the splits.
And the book is uneasily poised on the lip of a conceit: the street, we learn, is being described just before a climactic and terrible moment, withheld until the end of the book.
The ostensibly climactic wedding between Hakeem and his girlfriend and collaborator was disrupted by a character we'd never even heard of until that episode (Xzibit's vengeful Lucious associate Shyne, who returns this season).
"The Nielsen ratings just came out," Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said with a smile on Friday in Colorado, hours after his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, delivered her climactic convention speech.
WASHINGTON — President Trump has some advice for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as he prepares for Thursday's climactic Senate hearing to confront sexual misconduct allegations: Be more aggressive, show more outrage, push back more.
Though American officials supported the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, when he tried to ignite a climactic uprising on the morning of April 30, Mr. Maduro managed to rally the support of military leaders.
In London, she tattooed one fan with a door that had the phrase "Hold the Door" written on it, she said, a reference to a climactic scene from "Game of Thrones" season six.
His future sister-in-law (Hepburn), however, is similarly free-spirited; you can probably imagine how all these tensions will come to a head during — appropriately — the film's climactic New Year's Eve bash.
Arranging themselves a few to each piano, these interlopers began to press the keys, too, for a climactic effect that eventually matched the rich, chaotic peal of a full carillon of church bells.
In the climactic scene of "The Waldo Moment," Jamie Salter, the depressive comedian who voices Waldo, tries to make amends with his young Labour opponent, whose career he has wrecked during the campaign.
In the ad's climactic scene, a police officer accepts a can of Pepsi from Kendall Jenner, a white woman, setting off raucous approval from the protesters and an appreciative grin from the officer.
But with "Donnybrook" — especially the climactic fight scene, complete with a redneck rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" — he risks instead the appearance of condescension to the very demographic he seeks to represent.
At one point there's a breakdown where everything else falls away except Kendrick's vocal and a rousing synth or set of strings before clattering drums kick back in for a climactic final chorus.
He's done this while also directly confronting previous US policy on climate change through Cabinet appointments and, most notably, withdrawing the US from the Paris agreement, where the film's climactic moments are set.
But there are some really niftily edited sequences showing dancers auditioning and practicing that makes me wonder why the film's creative team didn't save their big production guns for the more climactic performances.
They're obviously not firing actual, live rounds at each other during the film's climactic ending — that'd violate so many safety regulations and break countless union rules — but to us, the audience, it feels real.
Haughty and magnetic, it's a song preoccupied with its own success, and its climactic placement atop the charts not only fulfills Cardi's prophesy but heralds a permanent shift in the calculus of pop power.
In the first Fantastic Beasts movie, it was the force that pummeled its way through half of Manhattan — forming the film's climactic moments and sending the entire wizarding government into a damage control panic.
Whatever Nintendo says about the future of standalone consoles and portables, it's hard not to see the Switch as an act of consolidation, Nintendo aligning all of its soldiers for a big, climactic push.
After that, season three focuses on a big decision for Maura: She's going to have gender confirmation surgery, and the season spends most of its time building to that moment as its climactic highpoint.
Berninger's hot-blooded performances electrify these climactic moments; he clings to his microphone, careens across the stage, and nudges his vocals to uncomfortable extremes, at times delivering his lines in a frenzied, clinched yelp.
Wednesday's finale found Elliot testing what else he might be imagining, leading to his climactic exchange with the long-missing executive Tyrell (Martin Wallstrom), who seemed to provide pretty tangible proof of his existence.
Consider: If you had closed your eyes and ears during the final climactic dinner table confrontation, would you be able to say which of these quotes is new and which of them is old?
As their relationship comes to a head, Tony and Gloria have a climactic fight: He's left her because it's not fun anymore, as she's shown her truest, darkest colors, and she calls him sobbing.
There are surges and digressions, including a caterwauling duet between drums and tenor, before the bracing last few minutes — a climactic resolution in which Mr. Malaby rightly seems to be screaming through his horn.
That climactic scene where Queen Elizabeth II mistakes an intelligence briefing about Blunt's treason for one about Wilson could not possibly have happened because he was not yet Prime Minister when Blunt was exposed.
The Hollywood rule book stipulates that the climactic sequence should involve the noisy destruction of a lot of buildings and an extended hand-to-hand fight between the good guy and the main villain.
Indian politicians come forward every year on the Hindu festival of Dussehra to re-enact the slaying of a 10-headed demon, a climactic victory of good over evil depicted in a Hindu epic.
Even when the director resorts to outright cliche — the climactic use of "Carmina Burana," for instance, one of the most overused pieces of music in cinema — it's clear that he's commenting on its familiarity.
And perhaps this climactic scene gets at the ultimate advantage of movies over books: the visual potential of the film medium to tell a compelling story is poised for exploitation in the right hands.
Based on Oscar Wilde's play of lust, violence and religion, the opera shocked conservative Met patrons with its dance of the seven veils and its heroine's climactic kiss of John the Baptist's severed head.
" The network's activity has intensified almost fivefold since the election was called in December, the report said, and "is mobilized at climactic moments for Netanyahu, such as the announcement of the indictment against him.
It's bookended by two climactic, almost impossible-to-imagine events (the murder and the meeting), but the links that connect them are much more ordinary: a road trip, arguments between Susan and her grandmother.
Even his unlikely scenes ring true, as in a tour-de-force climactic episode set inside a rat-research lab in which three of the four characters present are suddenly incapacitated in different ways.
Director Michael Uppendahl stages the climactic Shawshank shooting spree well, panning across the screens that Dennis usually monitors, on which we see him methodically walking down corridors and putting bullets in his fellow guards.
The big fight at the end of "Chapter Two" is a lot like the one at the end of Chapter One, which is a lot like every other climactic, big-budget action-movie battle.
After the necessary introductions and plot basics, there's the climactic conflict: at least one extraordinary individual doing battle with something evil, ricocheting around skyscrapers and vanquishing foes in the center of a bustling city.
There are centuries of trial and error inside the "hero's journey," in which a young man is called to adventure, challenged by trials, faces a climactic battle and emerges victorious, changed and a hero.
As the thriller "Unforgettable" wends its way toward its not very thrilling climactic scene, we are forced to ask: Why do people keep making essentially the same "crazy ex-" movie over and over again?
In an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, Ata Johnson, mother of Dwayne Johnson, speaks about her experience visiting the set for the film's climactic third act — which is stepped in her family's Samoan culture.
At a climactic moment, Mr. Wolfert describes how, after a more than usually traumatic experience as a waiter for a caterer, he drove back to his apartment and held a shotgun to his head.
The foam provides a soft landing for Sonya Yoncheva, the soprano singing the title role — allowing her to make her climactic leap off the castle and still return in one piece for curtain calls.
Sulkin and Barer do their best, but since the season barely bothered to set up their characters' connection, the two actually getting together feels more like an afterthought than the climactic moment it could've been.
Except, as readers will anticipate, something major happens to Charles Wallace that appears to be so far outside of McCabe's range that the movie all but derails during what's meant to be its climactic stretch.
After a strange and anti-climactic encounter with Euron who, I guess, gets to claim that he killed Jaime Lannister after leaving him wounded, we get the moving, lovely Jaime/Cersei reunion that we deserve.
After three hours of satisfying fan candy — from massive payoffs and a rousing climactic final battle to endless little gifts for longtime MCU viewers — of course audiences aren't going to want the fun to end.
In the climactic scene of Greta Gerwig's critically acclaimed movie Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan's character Lady Bird (née Christine) demands that her mother write down a full accounting of what it cost to raise her.
I genuinely can't figure out what went wrong with Bleed for This, but in place of the seat-gripping suspense that usually accompanies a climactic fight scene — will he win after all this hard work?
Billy Zabka, left, and Ralph Macchio reprise their roles in the new series, called "Cobra Kai," which begins with a flashback to the climactic scene in the 1984 movie, which became a pop culture touchstone.
The climactic final season of Samurai Jack premiered on Adult Swim last month, so I got in touch with Tartakovsky to find out how it feels to have impacted an entire generation with his cartoons.
When they win, he is visibly bobbing up and down and side-to-side, while after every anti-climactic bottle job of the last two years, Ty reflects, says he's "disappointed", but takes the positives.
So the brief era of Burberry's blockbuster men's show, held on Monday as the climactic anchor of the four-day event and a major draw for the world's biggest buyers and editors, is now over.
In the video's subtler, but climactic end, the two performers stand side-by-side with their backs towards the camera, heads tilted towards the ground in order to carry the steel slabs on their necks.
Image: Greg Stewart, SLAC National Accelerator LabSeveral million years ago, a series of nearby supernovae explosions lit up the sky, rained radioactive particles down on our planet, and might have kickstarted a major climactic shift.
All the subsequent climactic, confrontational exchanges about truth and trust and self-knowledge sound so tinny that I would never have guessed they were written by Mr. McPherson if his name weren't on the program.
"Our own study of hospital admissions in Milwaukee found a relationship between warmer temperatures and 'intentional self-harm,' " he added, referencing a study he led, which was published in the journal Climactic Change in 2012.
"The mining industry's performance has revealed a certain level of instability, related to factors such as adverse climactic events and maintenance work that has caused several large mines ... to shut down temporarily," the bank said.
In the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, the entire plot led up to a climactic dance scene in which Frances "Baby" Houseman (played by Jennifer Grey) is lifted over the head of Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze).
That makes the climactic final scene even more stressful when he finally gets to the airport only to realize he has a gun in his backpack seconds before going through a metal detector at TSA.
During a climactic scene, the matriarch, Mamá Imelda, sings a folk song called "La Llorona," a reference to the traditional ghost story of a bereaved mother who kidnaps children to replace the ones she lost.
It is worth seeing merely for the climactic gallery of 10 of his renowned "map paintings": washy, absorbing color-field abstractions overlaid with stencils of the continents, painted in New York in the late 1960s.
Towne's ex-girlfriend, the dancer Barrie Chase, told him that her father had had an incestuous relationship with her half sister, who was her mother's daughter, which morphed its way into the film's climactic scene.
In an interview on a sweltering June day, sitting next to the Sunset Park soccer field where climactic scenes of "En el Séptimo Día" were shot, Mr. McKay talked about his preference for working locally.
As an exquisite blend of tropical pop and R&B (with a last-minute, climactic swerve into punk-rock territory), it's both a product of its genre-bending era and a timeless, sexy slow burn.
But the problem, according to preservationists and some historians, is that the site sits on land that happens to be the precise location of the battle's climactic moment, the spot where Washington staged a daring counterattack.
And in the ballroom scene — for the first time in any production since the early 1940s — is the climactic moment when Siegfried kneels to Odile and she grips his knee as she holds a triumphant arabesque.
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The newly added Story Map lets you construct a high-level outline of your acts, scenes, and sequences, so you can plot out that big action set piece in Act 2 and the climactic good vs.
It is a little like switching sides: Mary, after all, questions the legitimacy of Anne Boleyn's marriage and calls her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, a "vil bastarda," or "vile bastard," in one of the opera's climactic moments.
But with El Niño gone and its climactic counterbalance, La Niña, already here, a vast region of the equatorial Pacific that's been releasing extra heat into our atmosphere is now expected to draw heat back down.
That dragon is merely a way of setting a certain chosen figure down a familiar pathway, one filled with mythical monsters to fight, skills to learn, and, eventually, a seemingly climactic battle against that same Dragon.
But it's much more effective, even a little jarring, to see a climactic scene — Shadow King crawling toward Kerry (Amber Midthunder) and Syd (Rachel Keller) with the intent to kill them — absent any sound or color.
Jasmine Holloway took the stage and belted out the climactic song from the Tony-winning Broadway show The Color Purple when she received surprise back-up help from the actual cast, including her mentor, Rema Webb.
QL Score: -5 Nick: As far as dire situations go in zombie-infested Virginia, the one in which Eugene, Daryl, and Rosita found themselves in the climactic moment of the episode ranks high on the list.
Both sides are worthy, with B taking on music by Jay Electronica and Andrea Bocelli (yes, really) on that first part and then adopting the identities of presidents and pop stars in the climactic final stretch.
Anti-climactic. He played all the old favorites—a little bit of blood-and-soil, some exaggerated claims about the Johnson Amendment, a dash of persecution complex—and then proceeded to repeatedly violate the Ninth Commandment.
After quickly recapping the first season's climactic hack of E Corp and the ensuing chaos, a masked member of fsociety reveals himself to be none other than Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström), broadcasting from within fsociety's headquarters.
Sharkey's climactic thesis is that the real challenge for the decades to come is to take advantage of the decline in crime to engineer a parallel decline in incarceration, sending noncareer criminals back to safer streets.
In the climactic duet "Qual cor tradisti" ("The heart you betrayed"), she deliberately landed a little late and low on the final notes of her phrases, tugging the gently buoyant major-key accompaniment toward the shadows.
With 13 episodes to go, the producers appear to be leery both of spending time on cases and of setting up their climactic showdown too soon, and the plots have a neither-here-nor-there quality.
Now their grown-up son, Rusty (Ed Helms), heads back to the amusement park with his wife (Christina Applegate) and children — resulting in his own misadventures, crude gags and a climactic fight on a roller coaster.
Yet in the same stadium on Saturday, they attempted in vain to reprise that triumphant night, Farah ending up with silver in his final track race, over 5,000 metres, and Bolt suffering his anti-climactic farewell.
While Batman v Superman's fights are basically a series of weightless, incoherent CGI explosions, the Russo brothers stick to a visceral, relatively grounded style, even when some crazy superpowers come into play in the climactic battle.
The anti-climactic comeback and title are given real stakes here, because we grow to love the team, and see that Cleveland—in the film it's actually Milwaukee, Wisconsin, convincingly playing Cleveland—is doing the same.
With Motomu Toriyama leading writing on the game it veered well off tone, ending with a climactic battle against a robot space tree that evolved from the technology Bernard had developed back in the older games.
But the way the streaming format forces stories toward a climactic point means that Kelley and Shapiro have to make more sense of their characters than they would have on a show with more standalone episodes.
It was nominated for an Oscar, but is mostly remembered for the climactic scene of Hitler totally losing his shit as he realizes that he's screwed, which became the source of a fount of early memes.
The Walking Dead That 'The Walking Dead' has chosen to be a largely anticipatory TV show, building to a single climactic conflict at a slow-burn pace, has been agreeable to some and agonizing to others.
While Uber raised $8.1 billion from its offering and reaped billions of dollars in returns for its early investors and founders, what should have been a climactic moment for a transportation colossus instead became an embarrassment.
Despite the climactic violence, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is one of Tarantino's gentler efforts, and it's less attuned than his other work to the way historical atrocities echo into our present and our future.
Fans of the blockbuster were quick to recognize the real-life stairs from a climactic scene in Todd Phillip's film, where Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck makes his pivotal entrance as the titular villainous alter-ego.
Houston's climactic runner in the lane bounced on the rim before going through the net, breaking Miami's heart and propelling the Knicks from the threshold of first-round defeat all the way to the N.B.A. finals.
And as he observed the climactic scene, in which Inigo Montoya plunges his saber into the stomach of the six-fingered man, the shastri Ethan Nichtern could only look down and shake his head in disapproval.
Wearing a teal latex bodysuit, Dunham dramatically went through climactic highs and lows as she got her "ink", biting her lip and moaning as the tattoo artist – played by sculptor David Alexander Flinn – worked on her back.
Neither Caple nor Creed II's screenwriters seem to realize just how sympathetic they've made the Dragos, especially in a climactic fight that hinges on the relationship between father and son in a way that doesn't wholly work.
She nails the nuances of Rosie's clearly coded gayness — Morales herself identifies as queer — and her hilariously dry commentary in the broadcast booth during King and Riggs' big match makes the film's climactic moments all the better.
Roudbari said that one of the most challenging, but fun, sequences to coordinate was the climactic fight at an abandoned amusement park, when Harley, Canary, Huntress, and Montoya come together to fend off an army of henchmen.
In that climactic rap scene with Diggs, however, Casal says nothing, drawing instead from a well of deep feeling to convey Miles' fear and awe at watching his friend race at the edge of his own sanity.
"You expect to see a little more variability in your winter extremes when you've got a La Niña in place," Masters said, adding that other climactic patterns like the North Atlantic Oscillation can play a role, too.
And he builds to a deeply creepy climactic flashback sequence, set in the asylum that the Butler house became, and played out by a cast drawn from Andy Warhol regulars like Candy Darling, Jack Smith, and Ondine.
Even cuts from Reflektor now sounded like a part of the family; the title track kicked off a suite of that album's strongest dance floor numbers, segueing neatly into a climactic rendition of "Power Out" from Funeral.
And rather than gaining ground incrementally once he came back en route to his climactic Masters triumph, the rejuvenated star emerged fully formed, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus, from the moment he resumed play.
Still, the filmmakers also rely too heavily on musical montages (and even toss in some old clips) and naughty language, before a climactic section that's sort-of cute but ultimately not worth the energy expended getting there.
With its fire-lit nighttime color scheme, its clumsy bombast, and its weightless, slightly cartoony CGI, the climactic showdown between Wonder Woman and Ares, the God of War, feels like a hangover from the Zack Snyder era.
GIF: JAXA/GizmodoAn encouraging new video released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows Hayabusa23 briefly touching down on the surface of Ryugu, capturing the climactic moment when the spacecraft fired a bullet into the asteroid's surface.
HBO isn't leaving anything to chance when it comes to spoiler potential for its climactic Game of Thrones finale: The network will be shooting multiple endings for Season 8, the show's next and final season (via Mashable).
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We also know young Dumbledore will be in the next film, so it makes sense for them to start teasing his involvement — and referencing the showdown that will most likely be the climactic event of the franchise.
Massively successful though these movies have been, they do all seem to feature the same plot; a new villain with incredible power emerges, brought low only by a climactic fight in which a city is laid waste.
Prince lingers in the white tunic and knee-length bedazzled purple trenchcoat he donned for the climactic closing performance sequence in 1984's Purple Rain, a film I've fixated on for as long as I can remember.
But when you hear her talk about "Gypsy" — and to see the project-pitching "sizzle tape" she made, which ends with a concert performance of her defiantly singing the climactic number "Rose's Turn" — the mouth still waters.
What's worse, the veteran baritone Louis Otey's flinty voice imploded just before his climactic aria, and the love duets between the soprano Kelly Kaduce and the tenor Michael Wade Lee collapsed into a noisy battle of vibratos.
The final full-scale feature film he managed to complete in his lifetime, "Chimes at Midnight" is the climactic event of "Orson Welles: One-Man Band," the third installment of Simon Callow's ­supremely intelligent life of Welles.
The action sequences are slack and not structured for maximum emotional impact — as when one character makes an incredible save in the big climactic fight against the ghosts, and it's not even clear where she came from.
The end of award season is set to come to a climactic ending with Sunday's 2020 Academy Awards, and the night promises to be a big one for many (looking at you, Bong Joon Ho and Parasite).
This made his climactic flight from Hui He's Butterfly appear more pathetic than dramatic — a potentially interesting interpretation that would have felt more purposeful had the tenor found more chemistry with other singers earlier in the evening.
Matt makes a narrow escape from what was about to be a gang rape, and eventually finds his way to "God" for a climactic scene that is as quietly tense as the orgy-goer sequence is baroque.
Personally, I associate eclipses the show Avatar: The Last Airbender remembers the "Day of the Black Sun," where a solar eclipse left members of the antagonistic Fire Nation powerless, ushering in a climactic attack on their capital city.
The director of The Last Jedi took to Twitter on Friday to clap back at fans who are furious at the trick Luke Skywalker pulls on Kylo Ren in the movie's climactic fight scene on the planet Crait.
In a climactic reveal at the end of the book, Wade discovers that his best friend Aech, who he's been talking to for over three years, is not a guy at all, but rather a fat, black lesbian.
Leaped onto one of the two long dining tables and stood there looking at the ceiling, or the heavens, somewhat like a movie star in a climactic scene, and allowed a terrific energy to consume and become him.
She toned down some of the violence and gore, including a climactic plot twist in which a possessed man goes on a killing spree, and scrubbed out the profanity, at the request of her 91-year-old mother.
The character arrives in full, vintage costume a bit late (we've seen her in evening wear already), in time to join the climactic battle, which features a giant anthropomorphic slime monster and is a sludgy, noisy, chaotic mess.
This climactic episode is the end of the second act of the story, so there's a huge twist and big emotional moves and payoffs, but readers can enjoy this issue just for the expert pacing, action, and illustrations.
The ones that are OK usually either peter out at the climax like Guardians of the Galaxy or have lots of needless exposition to build up to a really great climactic fight scene like Captain America: Civil War.
By the end of the show — after watching a climactic succession of nervous breakdowns in song, styled, by the directors Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, as opulent fantasy musical-comedy vignettes — I wasn't sure what had hit me.
Just days before a climactic Senate vote in late July, Energy Secretary Rick Perry circulated a newspaper column urging Congress to "repeal this crushing law," and his department posted a message on Twitter drawing attention to his column.
Mr. Coogler stitched together a characteristically impressive single-take action scene in the middle of the film, but the climactic battle in Wakanda plays out with the same sort of pixelated weightlessness that is typical of Marvel movies.
Mr. Icke is also fond of cinematic touches that recall David Lynch during climactic moments, such as the frosted glass dividers that turn transparent at the blink of an eye, accompanied by flashing light and a zapping noise.
You've absolutely heard its deathless, Halsey-featuring follow-up "Closer," which was the Chainsmokers' first number one single as well as a moment of aesthetic crystallization, its purposefully anti-climactic hook nonetheless becoming massive in its own way.
Beneath that arresting image, Salieri and Mozart play out their wounding dance of death, the climactic "Requiem" rattling their symbiotic being, not to mention an audience for whom a time-honored play once again tears at the soul.
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Despite my father's reluctance to talk about the war, it seems to have been his peak experience; it appeared to me that he found the rest of his life, as a successful lawyer, anti-climactic and vaguely disappointing.
The great American bass-baritone Eric Owens was singing his first Wotan onstage; the opera world has long awaited the occasion, but Owens was curiously reserved on opening night, his voice not quite booming out at climactic moments.
Avengers: Endgame will reportedly spend a full three hours on the climactic battle between the Avengers and Thanos, the unstoppable force that turned great swaths of Earth's population into dust at the end of 2018's Infinity War.
This would set the stage for what certain corners of the internet have dubbed "Cleganebowl," a climactic clash between the Hound and his older brother the Mountain, currently Westeros's scariest blue zombie this side of the Night King.
There's more to watching people get loaded than the climactic blooper reel—you know, when things start getting weird as excess booze is converted into awkward aggression, highly regrettable opinions, and basically just falling all over the place.
Fincher follows Nicholas ever deeper into the rabbit hole and toward the picture's fabulous climactic double-cross—a fake-out that Fincher (and perhaps only Fincher) could get away with at that specific moment because of Seven's relentless grimness.
First, his co-star Emilia Clarke — the Mother of Dragons herself — unsuccessfully wheedled him for a few details, then teased him about their climactic sex scene in last season's finale: "Did you know they filmed that?" she asked incredulously.
Tiffany's personal hell — revealed through a climactic breakdown scene that Wynn says took her eight takes over three days to film — is framed as a particularly deep circle of infernal insecurity shared by all trans women, including Wynn herself.
An explosion a few hundred light years away won't cause an apocalypse, but some scientists believe the additional radiation flux may be enough to kickstart a climactic shift—such as the onset of the Pleistocene two million years ago.
Since Meredith was the primary obstacle to Hallie and Annie's ambitious scheme of reuniting their parents, I thought her climactic punishment — being pushed onto a lake on an air mattress and subsequently dumped by her fiancé — was well deserved.
In another climactic episode, a fictional DJ struggling with substance abuse issues—who I later learn is based on a well-known techno veteran—slumped in a chair, slurred on the phone to his daughter, and eventually passed out.
The NBA finals, which saw a near-victory by the Warriors before a climactic comeback and victory for the Cavaliers, are unusually good raw material; there's a built-in chronology and dramatic arc that most nonfiction VR doesn't have.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Arthur Abele finally delivered for Germany as an anti-climactic night for the hosts on Wednesday turned into a glorious one with the Olympic Stadium roaring home the 225-year-old journeyman to European Championships decathlon gold.
Appropriately for a modern shrew, it is Kate who tames herself by coming to understand what is going on (and there is a somewhat sinister climactic event), to acknowledge that change and growth and acceptance are to be ­welcomed.
While bigger tongue strokes can be a nice tease in the beginning, for more intense (and climactic) pressure, it's important to actually stick your mouth on your partner's vaginal opening and enjoy the smell and taste of their vagina.
His dancing on Tuesday — even in the long, climactic "Solea" solo he performed in matador costume — was on the level of a competent soloist, one who could adequately play a small role in a company led by someone else.
George Lucas originally wanted to have Wookiees in the climactic final act, and even considered using a reptilian species instead, but inevitable script changes meant they were changed to the cute, cuddly teddy bears you either love or loathe.
In Porumboiu's 2009 film "Police, Adjective," the actor played another cop: a police chief who, in a climactic scene, spends nearly 20 minutes defining the word "conscience" for the benefit of one of his underlings (coincidentally also named Cristi).
He and the players went all out, though, during the climactic Maestoso, with its stirring theme, rippling piano arpeggios and full-throttled organ (here played by Kent Tritle, the Philharmonic's organist and the director of music at the cathedral).
He's a sort of keeper of the Arthurian/Transformers legend, and he knows that a long-forecast climactic battle is coming for control of Merlin's staff, an ancient relic that has formidable powers when wielded by the right person.
The theme reaches its apotheosis with the climactic encounter: The humans send it out over a computer and speakers (an oboe in the soundtrack's "Wild Signals"), and it is repeated back by the aliens' mother ship (a rumbling tuba).
The climactic dance of "The Savages" remains, as it was in the 1730s, a thrilling presentation of what will be, for many in the audience, a foreign style, celebrated for its foreignness — here, an escalating, showstopping detonation of krump.
As his camera follows Juliette, Vadim almost incidentally articulates what will become standard elements of the St.-Tropez art-film plot: a romantic triangle (though the geometry is more complicated than that) leading toward a climactic burst of violence.
In the climactic moment in the World War I drama "1917," a British lance-corporal dodges explosions and charging soldiers as he runs across a battlefield in an attempt to deliver an order that could save hundreds of lives.
The insurmountable problem with Little Women — the one that's had its fans in fits ever since its second volume was published in 1869, that every Little Women adaptation wrestles with — is that its climactic marriages are so profoundly unsatisfying.
The climactic battle of season three offers an excellent example of this approach, with Royalist forces striking at pirates entrenched on a beach, forcing them to retreat into a jungle; only then do the pirates reveal their true strategy.
He empathized with its protagonist, whose truthful complaints go largely unheeded, and relished a climactic scene in which she sees her double already sitting on the bus she is about to board, smiling back at her through the window.
Things get worse from there: What would normally be the climactic moment — a main character being crowned prom queen — instead becomes a punchline, with a wasted Summer falling off the stage, sending Seth running in search of a towelette.
Redskins, Bengals battle to tie in London Disappointment, confusion and anger were among the emotions expressed after the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals traveled across an ocean and showed Londoners firsthand that American football can have anti-climactic draws too.
But Abrams is really good, and his story and visual sense largely leave the 1977 film behind as The Force Awakens progresses — which is why the film's climactic lightsaber battle in a snowy forest contains its most potent moments and images.
Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment—where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd—is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
Fairfield's job is at its most challenging during the climactic sequences, like season 5's battle at Hardhome, which pitted Jon Snow and the Wildlings against a White Walker army for the first time and involved every sound person on staff.
After wrapping things up in slightly anti-climactic fashion (Discovery is one of the few shows on TV that want you to cheer when there are no explosions), the series seemed to jet off into the unknown reaches of space.
Kerry Washington plays a new character named Natalie Certain, a journalist who pops up every so often to point out how her data can't lie and how Jackson Storm has a 96 percent probability of winning the film's climactic race.
As the choreographer friend of a wealthy fashion designer (Lauren Bacall), Cole annoys her new husband, a sports reporter (Gregory Peck), by crashing into a card table; later, he puts his dancer's dexterity to heroic use in a climactic brawl.
SS: There's an elliptical quality to this diatribe that's rare outside of climactic soliloquies on a Shonda Rimes series, but it also perfectly captures the ennui one must experience when one is unquestionably superior than everyone else in their field.
McQuarrie and cinematographer Rob Hardy pop into the immersive, 1.90:1 IMAX aspect ratio throughout the film, and the footage they capture with the IMAX cameras is stunning, particularly during a climactic helicopter chase above the snowy mountains of Kashmir.
Inarritu went out of his way to select locations (mostly in the mountains north of Calgary, Alberta, then in Argentina for the climactic sequence when the snow melted early in Canada) that had never been seen in the cinema before.
That was his only hit of the night, and it seemed like his end might be a little anti-climactic, but then in the ninth inning, Joe Girardi finally—finally—threw one of ten best players of all time a bone.
But big-money marathons are also citywide events, and there are aspects of their size, scope, scheduling, format, climactic conditions, history, and economics that make them unconducive to allowing the world's best runners to release the full potential of their bodies.
But bringing together the disparate threads of the Marvel universe into its ultimate, climactic storyline requires a delicate dance between newly-introduced characters and long-standing favorites, all without stepping on the toes of the other Marvel films already in production.
From the swelling opener, "Cold Well Lit Place" to the rollicking tension in "A Gentleman's Gentleman" all the way into the climactic close of "The Finished Line," the record plays like a car crash in slow motion and the ensuing aftermath.
The hectic, calculated busyness of "Mary Poppins Returns," by contrast, wears you out almost immediately, in part because every throwaway gag and narrative digression has been so vainly contrived to pay off in a flurry of climactic would-be surprises.
Instead he went to play in Omaha – Nebraska being a far closer climactic relation of South Wales – where his knack for stealing bases caught the eye of New York's Highlanders club (who adopted their vastly more famous "Yankees" name in 21910).
"What we want to prevent is that canary in the coal mine effect where insurance companies pull out of the Miami market, which could have a catastrophic economic impact even before the climactic events," Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said in February.
The pacing, too, is somewhat off, with the first two thirds of the film -- which runs 2 hours, 44 minutes -- feeling a tad too leisurely, as if luxuriating in its futuristic dystopia, before rushing toward its slightly messy climactic act.
The same goes for a climactic chase sequence that pits the film's two street racing leads, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), against a pair of bikers who have just taken out a member of Toretto's crew.
But he stepped on his own climactic line about how he would "turbocharge" the country's economic future much like the electric vehicles produced in the factory — musing in an aside about whether one could actually turbocharge a battery-operated vehicle.
A lesser-known figure in the WeWork saga until last week, Schumer's role in representing Neumann's personal interests during WeWork's bailout by SoftBank emerged as central in shaping one of the more climactic moments in the coworking company's downward spiral.
Guerrasio: However, there is a moment toward the end of this movie, and I'm not going to give it away, but a climactic moment that happens in a unique way that audiences don't usually see in an underdog-makes-good story.
Plot-wise, we're dominated by clichés: A British boy goes to America looking for an absentee dad, falls in love with an American girl, lives the Bohemian dream, briefly comes down to Earth, and then saves his relationship in climactic fashion.
"Empowerment" here is quite the misleading word, as you'll feel none of it while watching Mother brutally beaten and exploited, especially in the movie's climactic sequence—whether that feels gratuitous is up to the viewer, though its producers argue otherwise.
Like a climactic scene in an Italian melodrama, all the main characters in New York's political imbroglio over monuments of historical figures, and what to do with them, emerged Monday on the rain-doused Columbus Day parade route up Fifth Avenue.
All three novels are built around climactic beheadings, and in the first two books, Cromwell is working to enact those beheadings on those he considers his personal enemies: Thomas More in Wolf Hall, and Anne Boleyn in Bring up the Bodies.
All the while the polar and Arctic ice caps are melting and, despite dire warnings from highly reputable scientists, the current administration is taking little action to protect its citizens from future climactic disasters that scientists say are sure to come.
The school janitress Sally Swing trucks and scats her way to campus stardom but vintage jitterbug moves notwithstanding, the cartoon was most likely chosen for the climactic scene in which a cap and gown descend upon her from on high.
"I don't think I've ever made up anything," he tells me as we drive across Miami's 3003th Street Causeway, which takes us past a small island called Bird Key where a climactic scene in his new novel, "Cari Mora," takes place.
"Que Sera, Sera" becomes central to the story, in a riveting climactic scene that gives the actress the chance to add layers of tension and emotion to the kind of character that at that point she'd been playing repeatedly for years.
This summer, however, almost 150 years after Darwin published his sexual selection theory to mixed reception, Richard Prum, a mild-mannered ornithologist and museum curator from Yale, has published a book intended to win Darwin's sex theory a more climactic victory.

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