climactic

How To Use climactic In A Sentence

• Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
• The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
• The identity of the killer is revealed in the movie's climactic ending.
• We whomped our arch rival in the season's climactic football game.
• Most Pixar films, even the emotionally-devastating Toy Story 3, went out with G ratings, but Bolt went out with a PG for basically having a (fantastic) curtain-raiser opening action sequence that was quickly revealed to be fake and for a climactic moment of fiery peril for the lead characters. Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days?
• But the clashes between mutants of varying capabilities make for excellent fight scenes, the climactic one occurring, both photogenically and symbolically, atop the Statue of Liberty.
• The variations increase in complexity towards a climactic restatement of the starkly modal theme.
• In one climactic scene, he is publicly and sadistically humiliated by the king.
• For Western Union Co. managers, the trips can be "anticlimactic," says Gint Baukus, senior vice president of global talent management. Foreign Policies
• DEAR CHARLENE: It wouldn't be "anticlimactic" to send this letter. Ask Amy