How To Use Denouement In A Sentence
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The denouement when the birthday comes is surprising enough not to spoil, but again there is something uneasy about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
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The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it.
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The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements.
"Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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The revelation in the mystery's denouement is so shocking and smart that the entire tale is turned upside down.
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard: Book summary
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The plays require neither plot structure nor plausible dénouement to produce the recurring fantasy of woman's life in the absence of men.
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None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
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But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement apt to be disappointed.
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That powerful civilisational rule — where there's a freebie, there's an art-world type — had achieved one of its finest denouements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its "longish denouement" is "corny and contrived, but we seize on it with relief - as we seize on the Mahleresque romanticism of Gabriel Yared's score.
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul.
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The stage was now set for the final denouement in a two-handed drama.
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A memorably complex tragic denouement has been reduced to a lovers' quarrel.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.
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The final denouement involving a haggis is unworthy of all concerned.
Times, Sunday Times
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From her lonely entrance at the opening curtain, until the slaphappy denouement, she dominates the stage and virtually carries the show on her slim shoulders.
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So I read rapidly, racing toward that dramatic denouement.
Christianity Today
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Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
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For instance, when we read a detective novel, we have a different experience of the story before and after the denouement is reached.
Not A Review of Lolita « Tales from the Reading Room
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When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves.
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Jacinta is once again feeling rejected and persecuted when an unexpected turn in events brings about a happy denouement.
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It builds to a shriekingly funny (and scary) revelation and a dénouement so brilliant it's almost demonic.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest.
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None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
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The evidence becomes incontrovertible, leading the story to its logical denouement.
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The denouement of the final twist in the plot is so startling and funny that the laughter must surely have been heard above the traffic outside the theatre.
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The denouement when the birthday comes is surprising enough not to spoil, but again there is something uneasy about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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One newspaper headlined the denouement thus: ‘Piano Man Saga Ends Unhappily’.
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Everything comes together smashingly, in an extended dénouement that… reasserts the power of stories and songs to represent, sustain and complete us.
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Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough, and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.
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But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.
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New generations would tell and retell the story of the Revolution itself, with different accounts of the rising action, climax, and dénouement, and with different heroes and villains.
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He is installing a kinetic sculpture made of old bikes, vital to the denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled.
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The denouement of "Ghost-Writer" is, in fact, reminiscent of Somerset Maugham, a no-nonsense writer who had no use for James's involuted ambiguities.
Her Master's Voice From the Other Side
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It's against this background that the novel explodes into murder, mayhem, sexual intrigue and the scandalous exposure of secrets in a splendid denouement.
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Sudden leaps of logic, intermedial dénouements and deviation from the beaten track were typical, as in the Celtic Twilight Zone where 'Gospel truth' met 'myth'.
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To allege that one romantic comedy stole from another because they both end with weddings would fail on the grounds that such a denouement is a scène à faire for romantic comedies.
Faire
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Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.
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It is an unedifying, if dramatic, denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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A creative synthesis of imagery and symbol, simile and metaphor - ideal vehicles for the accommodative range of the stream of consciousness narrative mode - helps to unfold the character, plot and the denouement.
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It could well be the precipitating event for the final denouement in this extraordinary period of financial history.
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An intricate mesh of flashbacks and postattack scenes leads up to a chilling denouement revealing what happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the notes, you said the script was a little bit like getting a denouement of a film, rather like the third act all in one piece, and viewers have to learn about the characters as they go along.
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In the final denouement, that glorious set pulls one last trick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, the denouement was played out on internet message boards, where fans traded barbs back and forth.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it.
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The second was a roller-coaster ride in which the opening stages were a gentle trundle followed by an all-in death slide as the game reached a dramatic and totally unexpected denouement.
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Some may be surprised at this choice, but I find that the novel captured youthful angst as well as any book I've read, and its explosive denouement is all the more impressive in these post-Columbine days.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice
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This also means that in the court of public opinion the tournament director stands totally vindicated by the way the championship has unfolded regardless of its remaining finals' denouements.
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As if to reinforce the point, the final denouement, which takes place on live TV, is staged off-screen.
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Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement.
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In a surprising denouement, she becomes a nun.
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A twisting tale had received a fittingly dramatic denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything comes together smashingly, in an extended dénouement that… reasserts the power of stories and songs to represent, sustain and complete us.
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The downbeat denouement in the media conference suite had followed some dramatic theatre on Centre Court yesterday with a series of subplots thickening the intrigue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like much of the plot, this denouement is not clear in the film, from which Mr. Kubrick cut most of the expository material.
Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 « Isegoria
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It will be a place where we can wait for the fatidic denouement that will come sooner or later in Venezuela, waiting because there is little we can do now as Chavez holds everything.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
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To explore the intricacies of the plot further would give away the denouement and spoil any pleasure that might be culled from the evening.
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It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy.
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The denouement, where the mother mourns her daughter lying dead on the stage, left the audience awestruck and silent for a long moment of grief, before breaking into rapturous applause.
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Even the book's tantalising denouement - proof that our hapless youth's feelings for Madame are not entirely unreciprocated - comes after she gets him to recite a line from Beckett's Endgame.
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The finest piece of batsmanship in this marathon came at the denouement.
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As the novel reaches its denouement, the reader begins to see the astonishing mental strength of this woman.
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So, come the denouement, their table was very bibulous and merry while everyone else was in a state of nervy misery.
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That sad denouement is another symbol, standing for our defeat in the larger war of ideas.
September 2006
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He never had the kind of bonafide drug or alcohol problem that plagues nearly every successful rock musician eventually, and therefore can probably count on having a normal life expectancy, which not only fills me with unimaginable delight but also makes me wonder how the hell this man is going to come up with a comparable third act, and, yes, a satisfying denouement.
Archive 2010-03-01
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It all makes for a dramatic denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within 24 hours, the fivesome meet in an even more unlikely twist of fate and trundle towards the film's forgettable denouement.
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This evasive but suggestive narrative approach renders the book 's terrible denouement at once shocking but quietly inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction.
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And there's a predictable denouement that comes out of the archives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Else is not nearly so good at portraying realistic unordinary characters, two of which become vital in the novel's dénouement.
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The evidence becomes incontrovertible, leading the story to its logical denouement.
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Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical.
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It was a tragic denouement to a distinguished military career.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've decided that I will share here with readers the entire progress of one applicant's exchange of correspondence with the agency in regards to a claim, the genesis and discussion of the matter, and the dénouement.
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The acting in the film is as predictable as the various denouements.
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This entirely predictable denouement arrives when, as a result of Tony Blair carefully burnishing his credentials for the job of President of the EU, the Danegeld we pay to the EU for the non-existent benefit of being a member is eye-wateringly ratcheted upwards by 68% in two years.
To Nobody's Surprise
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I concocted a whole list of factual statements about a supposed crime, rather in the way a detective might in the closing stages of a criminal investigation just before the denouement is reached, and decided to let the students solve the mystery.
The Perils of Teaching « Tales from the Reading Room
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It feels as if a curtain is being lowered, but I try for a final duet before the denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is that the denouement of the film is nowhere near as hopeful or emotional as it should be, and the overall message is exposed as weak.
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I felt the final third could have gone on longer, it never really felt like the protagonist hit their lowest point before the action at the end and the denouement is hurried and confusing.
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And when the denouement finally comes, it's a fizzle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene, she explains is a decrescendo, the denouement of everything that has happened before it; the build up and heyday of Rome; these women becoming trophy brides, the beautiful houses, clothes and hairdos - and it all falls apart.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Eve Sussman - on the making of her film, Rape of the Sabine Women
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Pour ce qui est du livre lui-même, je suis sévère : personnages caricaturaux, souvent grotesques, violence gratuite, héros trop parfait, invraisemblance des rebondissements, vulgarité, situations glauques, intrigue dépourvue d'intérêt réel, dénouement qui semble improvisé et laisse sur sa faim.
Archive 2010-06-01
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There was the opening trauma, the suspects, the who-done-it, and even a form of denouement.
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This tautly wrought dénouement to Dipped in Shadow serves as the foundation for Harris's latest volume, She, a novel in poetry about the depths of a woman's consciousness.
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(It's worse than when you get the large drink at the movies, and right around the time the denouement begins, you have to run to the urinarium.
Saru-san Diary Entry
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There were so many players involved in the denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story's highly unsatisfactory denouement has already been mentioned.
Celtic Mythology
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The denouement is a huge canvas, a good 20 cm deep, with a cluster of faces contained in bubble-like spheres.
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It is this moment of rupture which carries the denouement of the film into relatively unexplored territory in Australian landscape cinema.
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The real takeaway you get from the film is the same one his daughters touchingly acknowledge in the denouement - there's never anything wrong with making a stand against social injustice.
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The final denouement is properly horrifying.
Times, Sunday Times
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The announcement by the host of the "Dr. Laura" program was a stunning denouement after a week in which Schlessinger was widely criticized for describing an African American caller to her program as "hypersensitive" for taking offense at a neighbor's racial taunting.
'Dr. Laura' to end radio show over racial controversy
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As the film moves to its denouement, it reverts more to formula with airborne bang-whack-pow style fights between good guy and bad.
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Each of these levels may consist of a sequential unit of internal constituents that are realized by exposition, complication, and denouement.
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No singer quite matches the exceptional beauty and clarity of tone from the violin and cello and the denouement is hasty.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fallout of this particular affair, his entanglement with a childhood friend of hers - another innocent - and its ugly denouement is what constitutes the plot of the novel.
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Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!
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The murder investigation is skilfully interwoven with family and political plot strands in a powerful denouement that loops the story back to the forest where it began.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together.
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The murder investigation is skilfully interwoven with family and political plot strands in a powerful denouement that loops the story back to the forest where it began.
Times, Sunday Times
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The denouement when the birthday comes is surprising enough not to spoil, but again there is something uneasy about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is?
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In the end, despite intercutting various shots of the ‘special rope’ that was used on the girl, the denouement seems somewhat flat and predictable.
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It feels as if a curtain is being lowered, but I try for a final duet before the denouement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, they are fated to be remembered less for their four successive wins en route to Ireland than for the toe-curling denouement.
Ireland 24-8 England | Six Nations match report
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The denouement, which comes after a painfully slow preamble, is predictable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poem doesn't reach a climax or any sense of denouement in this final installation.
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Being grounded in the basics of law, the legal battle which started from the Paravur Municipal Court, had a successful denouement at the Supreme Court.
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No singer quite matches the exceptional beauty and clarity of tone from the violin and cello and the denouement is hasty.
Times, Sunday Times
