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/klˈaɪmæks/
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[ US /ˈkɫaɪˌmæks/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫaɪˌmæks/ ]
NOUN
- arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
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the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
the climax of the artist's career
in the flood tide of his success -
the decisive moment in a novel or play
the deathbed scene is the climax of the play - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- the most severe stage of a disease
VERB
-
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
How To Use climax In A Sentence
- This is particularly true of the film's climax, which somehow manages to demolish several cop cars, and find Ellen clutching a parasail and jumping through flaming hoops in water skis, yet still be completely unfunny.
- So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
- The whole front of the theatre, a curtain of matting, is rolled up at intervals and, when the feat in progress is at its most thrilling climax, is let fall. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
- The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile.
- It contains, among other things of merit, a lullaby, called "Sleep, Little Tulip," with a remarkably artistic and effective pedal-point on two notes (the submediant and the dominant) sustained through the entire song with a fine fidelity to the words and the lullaby spirit; a "Nocturne" in which Nevin has revealed an unsuspected voluptuousness in Mr. Aldrich 'little lyric, and has written a song of irresistible climaxes. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
- After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
- I drew attention, as have other commentators, to troubling improbabilities in the tremendous watery climax to Eliot's novel.
- Although sagebrush now dominates this zone, it may not represent climax growth, but rather a disclimax produced by overgrazing. Intermountain Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)
- Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
- She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing.