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  • 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?
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  • 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
  • Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic (or should I say inevitable?) ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave.
  • More agitation and complexity rear their heads in the second movement, building to a climactic fury.
  • It's the big climactic chapter that had her first whimpering, then sniffling, and finally cheering.
  • The launch and destruction of the SA-10 SAM site was anticlimactic, almost boring. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • Mr. Jackson has, in the past, done remarkable work with the uneasy departed, from the flesh-eating zombies of “Dead Alive” (1992) to the ectoplasmic pranksters of “The Frighteners” (1996) to, perhaps most memorably, the army of irritable spirits who come to the aid of Aragorn and Gandalf in the climactic battle of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003). IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 1ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • The downside's that after such a climactic event, there's still an hour to go.
  • Finally, in a climactic Big Change, the lepidos morphed into a coffinlike testudinal phase. Sagittarius Whorl
  • In another climactic event, Vronsky loses a horserace he is slated to win.
  • At one stage, he finds himself hot on the trail of the mysterious, possibly supernatural, killer, drawing himself into a disturbing and haunting climactic experience.
  • I'll be honest: the most exciting thing about the film for me was that the climactic segment is set in a steampunk elvish subterranean vault under the Giant's Causeway. Linkspam for 10-6-2009
  • The passage describes the climactic moment in a football game, just as the halfback is breaking away for a long, broken-field run.
  • They were still allowed some climactic moments of insight and self-knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
  • The climactic event, however, consists of tying the captive condor by its feet onto the back of a bull.
  • The climactic scene in which the local Mafiosi close in on the inspector is bone chilling and unforgettable.
  • The mystery of the orb is the one interesting thing here and when we find out what it is, it's rather anti-climactic. July 2009
  • There is less resultant blood and gore than one might expect from a more recent film, but there should be enough gunplay here to satisfy anyone, especially in the climactic battle scenes in the town of San Bernardino.
  • We whomped our arch rival in the season's climactic football game.
  • Guess it's just that post-holiday anticlimactical thing kicking in. The One With The Nonspecific Blues
  • A climactic event of that period was Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn in 1876, so of course the exhibit includes the buckskin coat that George A. Custer sometimes wore.
  • It's here that the climactic scenes of the film play out. Times, Sunday Times
  • The climactic scenes are almost all about plot. Christianity Today
  • Her climactic flashback scene begins: 'Ten big men were chasing me down a dark street! Times, Sunday Times
  • The conclusion of the movie was anticlimactic.
  • Though her bow-arm is fluent, she doesn't produce a natural, biting spiccato stroke, and she will sometimes push the vibrato on climactic notes rather than let the phrase bloom as an organic whole. Violinist Chee-Yun plays lovely Bach, Messiaen, Saint-Saens at Kennedy Center
  • More agitation and complexity rear their heads in the second movement, building to a climactic fury.
  • The actor's scene-stealing climactic rendition of Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get It On," in particular, fantastically fills the soundscape of your home theater setup.
  • As a simple race-and-chase, "The Adjustment Bureau" succeeds on the purest cinematic level, especially in a wowser of a climactic pursuit that recalls "Inception" in its mind-bending tour through multiple doors of perception. Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Adjustment Bureau,' an ambitious, impressive thriller
  • Actually, the fetishism is absent -- at least until the climactic battle, in which Saki replaces her sailor fuku with a tight leather outfit and has a yo-yo fight with the school's resident nasty girl (played by J-pop singer Rika Ishikawa), who, for the occasion, dons an S&M ensemble complete with studded-leather shorts and fishnet stockings. Archive 2008-07-01
  • They were still allowed some climactic moments of insight and self-knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
  • The vote transcended party divisions, in notable contrast to the acrimonious partisanship that preceded the climactic moment.
  • The failure of the effect can't even be called anticlimactic - there is no climax in "Believe. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Layers within the ice caps could someday reveal clues to Mars's climactic history.
  • In a development that could charitably be called anticlimactic, if not disastrous, Psystar is finished. InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
  • Some of the best moments in the film include Napoleon's climactic dance scene that wins Pedro the high school election.
  • The battle for Okinawa, the largest of the islands in the Ryukyu chain southwest of the home islands of Japan, had been designed by both sides as a preliminary to the climactic campaigns of the war in the Pacific: the American landing on the Japanese home island of Kyushu in November 1945 (Operation Olympic) and the Allied landing in Tokyo Bay in the spring of 1946 (Operation Coronet). Between War and Peace
  • Equally astute in publicity as in invention, Edison invited the two stars of a hit Broadway musical comedy to come to his Black Maria studio in New Jersey to perform their climactic stage kiss in front of his latest technological wonder, a motion picture camera he called a kinetograph. YubaNet.com
  • The film’s pat resolution, while perhaps anticlimactic, is satisfying in how uniquely thoughtful it is. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film
  • Sometimes an asyndetic list is useful for the strong and direct climactic effect it has, much more emphatic than if a final conjunction were used.
  • Anticlimactic An oral-argument story. [butterflyfish] The Weekly Law School Roundup #64
  • In the film's climactic sequence, she turns into a Ninja fighter who repels the attacks of a group of dancing Israeli sharpshooters.
  • Especially since, after the main mystery is resolved, there is all those post-climactic follow-up, which in the end doesnt 'really go anywhere, and all these plot bits are left mysterious and unresolved at the end. Breakfast in Bed
  • And tonight it seemed so anticlimactical … so slight in the magnificence of our victories. The Story of World War II
  • But more recently, as the last line of the climactic ‘Haye re woh din kyon na aye’ faded out at a morning show of the 1960s classic ‘Anuradha’, bad print and all, the sparse hall echoed to wonderstruck applause.
  • And do we really need to have the "climactic" battle between weaponized mechas intercut with Scarlett J. in a leather catsuit using sexy martial arts to take down security guards? Iron man 2
  • Some of the climactic bits of action seem a little fussier than they should be, but overall, there's a good deal to chuckle at in this "Fuddy Meers. 1st Stage's 'Fuddy Meers': Long on laughs, short on meaning
  • During the film's climactic plane crash sequence, you can feel the bass rumble and the rear speakers roar to life.
  • Only at that climactic moment - after extended tempestuous debate, jockeying, and tactical manoeuvres - was the Speaker's political preference made clear.
  • I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy.
  • The ineptly conceived murder of the boys is resoundingly anticlimactic.
  • MTV put it in writing last night with the most anti-climactic "news story" i.e. press release ever: Britney Spears is indeed following up those hilar Russell Brand ads with an actual appearance at the VMAs this weekend. Stop the presses! Britney's opening the VMAs! | EW.com
  • And the final climactic emotional moment is cringe inducing rather than searingly moving.
  • Troy is at its best in the climactic fight scene between Hector and Achilles, and its aftermath.
  • Even in his climactic speech, he skilfully keeps you guessing.
  • But Ms. Prose does little do advance this seamier angle the gun comes into play, but the scene is anticlimactic and instead mostly uses Lula as a tart observer of the malaise that the author perceived settling over the American suburbs during the drawn-out Iraq War. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
  • Likewise, walks to Calton Hill and the Water of Leith suggested climactic scenes and murder sites for various Rebus novels.
  • The lead-in to the climactic scene is nothing compared to the original.
  • He does do the one rewind-worthy martial arts move in the entire movie when he finally tangles with Li, but that's small comfort in the midst of the least climactic battle of either combatant's career.
  • The changes we are seeing are probably a good indicator of the changing climactic conditions there. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, of course, the climactic car chase, with Jackie piloting a sports car on to a pleasure boat.
  • Among the elongated are the film-opening combat, Tony and Rhodes 'plane ride, and a post-climactic chat featuring Tony and foe on their backs. UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com
  • Maybe it was because of the nicknames, maybe not, but Saladin. found Gibreel's revelations pathetic, anticlimactic, what was so strange if his dreams characterized him as the angel, dreams do every damn thing, did it really display more than a banal kind of egomania? The Satanic Verses
  • In its fascination with girl-on-girl action, from longing glances and kissing to a climactic catfight that's less lurid than ludicrous, "Roommate" plays like the ultimate indulgence of leering Hollywood executives, eager to ogle pulchritudinous college girls and call it work. 'Roommate' movie review: Don't move in with Leighton Meester
  • The sense of panic seeping through the climactic scenes is very well handled. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shoot-out is incredibly brief and features Grigsby stupidly standing in an open field and opening fire on a bunch of similarly stupid thugs and then, well, I won't spoil it for you, but let's just say the title figures heavily into the anticlimactic blue balls ending. DVD Verdict
  • The World Cup is one coherent drama with developing conflict, mounting tension and a climactic resolution.
  • I didn't expect it to have disability content, per my focus on this blog, but it unexpectedly had a major climactic moment when one of the people it profiled is revealed to have a devastating immune disorder called Dercum's Disease. Harry Potter fans' energy unstoppable in "We are Wizards"
  • The big reveal in the last episode was anticlimactic: oh boy, a minor character we don't remotely care about is a traitor!
  • She has never had the best endings, and the love scenes were icky and rather anticlimactic, but it was much funnier than the previous books, where you sometimes got the impression that she was trying a little too desperately.
  • In a climactic scene in the third book, Lyra comes to grief when she spins a fantastic tale to a mythological creature called a harpy who is guarding the underworld. His Dark Material
  • Her climactic flashback scene begins: 'Ten big men were chasing me down a dark street! Times, Sunday Times
  • In a way, the halftime show's climactic (in all senses) "wardrobe malfunction" distracted from this more fundamental question: even if Janet's boob hadn't been bared, was it responsible of CBS to broadcast these graphic themes and images during the Super Bowl with no notice to America's families, leaving many feeling "ambushed" by content they considered inappropriate for their kids? Jonathan Rintels: The High Cost of Seeing Janet's Boob
  • All of the supposed intrigue and suspense leads up to a climactic scene which is about as exciting as watching two middle-aged doofuses having a shovel fight in a garage.
  • The identity of the killer is revealed in the movie's climactic ending.
  • Despite the anticlimactic nature of the gig, the mood is cheerful and chatty.
  • It was as if the trial, and that climactic moment at the end was all a long-form video for him, and the “dance” was the spinning, multi-cut flourish just before the freeze-frame ending. The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
  • The fair's climactic event, the demolition derby, is drawing big crowds to the fairgrounds.
  • He gave a stunningly uncharismatic performance: for once, throwing lots of special effects at the climactic fight scene helped, because it at least made Drake seem genuinely menacing.
  • And if the climactic surprise feels like a magician's cheat, at least we've been hoodwinked by a master.
  • You always know you're in trouble when the philosophy of a film is summed up unironically in the climactic high school graduation speech.
  • Gerhaher has made much of his career as a singer of "lieder" or art songs, and it showed in his crisp diction and an ability to vary his sound from a hushed whisper to a climactic high note with no loss of tonal purity. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The climactic vote came after more than a week of stop-and-start negotiations, rumors, closed-door meetings and frustration on the part of advocates. N.Y. legalizes gay marriage
  • [S] moke from urban firestorms in a regional war would rise into the upper troposphere due to pyroconvection ... and then might induce significant climactic anomalies on global scales. I'm an uncle! (first of many follow-ons)
  • All of this leads the dinosaur kids on a wild adventure that culminates in a climactic confrontation on top of a volcano.
  • He bulled forward like the heavyweight boxer of old, scoring nine times in eight climactic games.
  • Machines accelerate, the near-deafening audio intensifies, and the rate of image replication reaches viral speeds, spawning a climactic mosaic of more than 2,200 constituent frames.
  • A truly tectonic architecture will therefore be naturally identified with its surroundings through its choice of materials and forms responding to availability and climactic conditions.
  • This is what emo wishes it was: mature and catchy without being whiny and anti-climactic.
  • You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver.
  • But it was for Becky McDonald that the bell tolled loudest, her departure – a public debagging of inveterate liar Tracy Barlow "'Er medical records show that when she fell down my stairs … SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT" followed by a climactic airport dash in a leopard-print padded jacket – proving a fitting send-off for the reigning holder of soap's Golden Scrunchie for Indomitability In The Face Of Relentless Leisurewear. World of Lather: a month in soap
  • I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy.
  • TV Guide goes on to state: "Overwritten and underacted by the kids anyway, it strings out its weekly climactic shockers — some of them truly unnerving — with artery-hardening blobs of moldy adolescent whining. Archive 2007-05-01
  • This moment prefigures the climactic reunion at the church meeting; it includes the same kind of call and response.
  • The climactic action sequence is nothing like anything that occurred in the first weeks of the Normandy invasion.
  • While that may be a viable way to end the book, it is too anticlimactic for a movie, and, as such, is better excised.
  • There was so much publicity and hype beforehand, that the performance itself was a touch anticlimactic.
  • She was no less persuasive on the climactic treatment of Somewhere. Times, Sunday Times
  • In its fascination with girl-on-girl action, from longing glances and kissing to a climactic catfight that's less lurid than ludicrous, "Roommate" plays like the ultimate indulgence of leering Hollywood executives, eager to ogle pulchritudinous college girls and call it work. 'Roommate' movie review: Don't move in with Leighton Meester
  • To this day, cineastes talk admiringly of the film's car chase and the thrilling climactic gun battle.
  • So: the average such thrillertakes a handsome young virile protagonist, and a heroine notionally attractive according to the very limited logics of 'supermodels', and puts them through the paces ofa reassuringly familiar plot: set-up, small fight, increasing peril, climactic big conflagration. Best of 2009
  • To say whether she does would give away the details of a climactic scene which has to be seen to be believed.
  • Speaking of mood, the play's climactic slaughterfest (in which solids, gases, liquids and something called a caltrop all prove excellent murder weapons) inevitably seems funny today. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
  • The world champions were empty after a dramatic, climactic finish that meant the trophy was shared.
  • Wilson, Corina Tarnita, and I have worked together on what he calls a “climactic project” that aims to explain the origin of eusociality using the mathematics of cooperation. SuperCooperators
  • Besides, if the opera's climactic scene is transplanted to the wings of a theatre where the maestro is conducting it can be staged without scenery. Times, Sunday Times
  • She appeared in more than a few slasher movies, always the young heroine who outsmarts the killer in a climactic final chase scene.
  • It was an anti-climactic end to a game which had begun promisingly with both sides threatening to break the deadlock inside the first few minutes.
  • everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic
  • Such climactic scenes are methodically constructed through the unfolding of otherwise uneventful plots.
  • a climactic development
  • Far from having the character of final coda, the added six months would, if he got them, be anticlimactic, detracting a bit from the beauty of his life as a whole.
  • In Episode III, viewers will see the climactic finale of the Clone Wars.
  • Everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic.
  • The drama hangs on an extremely shocking climactic event and our understanding of its causes.
  • This music is now far beyond his reach - even with downward transpositions, he had to omit the climactic high note in his last-act aria on opening night.
  • Poker has never been more fashionable than now, and the climactic scene, with its giant villain towering over Hoover Dam, is tailor-made for a Hollywood CGI extravaganza. MIND MELD: SF/F Books That Would Make A Great TV Series
  • This turns out not to be a casual device but, in the climactic scene, intrinsic to the film.
  • I cast the vote for the ending as "anticlimactic". Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
  • That said, it doesn't entirely work dramatically, and the play falters as it reaches its climactic final moments.
  • I suppose I feel a similar vulnerability at the climactic moment from another Leo McCarey sudser, ‘An Affair to Remember, ‘when the crippled Deborah Kerr exclaims to playboy-but-true-love Cary Grant, ‘If you can paint, I can walk!’
  • I found myself visibly moved during the central subject's climactic high string episodes; likewise during the close of the development.
  • Although advertised as a Count Basie celebration, both sets on opening night featured a lot of Duke Ellington, thus providing a perfect lead-in to Jazz at Lincoln Center's climactic Essentially Ellington concert this Saturday which will be webcast live, at which three prize-winning high school big bands will put up their Dukes alongside JaLC majordomo Wynton Marsalis. Refining Classic Sounds
  • Her climactic flashback scene begins: 'Ten big men were chasing me down a dark street! Times, Sunday Times
  • This is because of the North's cooler climactic conditions and past Islamic influence.
  • Concern centred on a climactic scene. Times, Sunday Times
  • The guitars are flat and muted, the vocals spare and disaffected, and the theatrical, climactic scream-along choruses are absent.
  • Even in his climactic speech, he skilfully keeps you guessing.
  • Now what are the determinants of climactic rhythm?
  • The conclusion of the movie was anticlimactic.
  • This scene comes from the final canto of the 6,000-line poem, but although it is clearly the epic's climactic moment, its intra-familial violence cannot be allowed to remain its final statement.
  • Ursula Minor finish with the climactic "Laudanum", an energetic piece of music billing with an anthemia chorus and belting instrumentals. IcScotland

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