Climaxes

Word CLIMAXES
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What do we mean by climaxes?

(originally rhetorical) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.

An instance of such an ascending series.

The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

(now commonly) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:

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The word "climaxes" in example sentences

The book simply stops rather than climaxes, which is, as with all things, rather disappointing. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2010)

A wonder in a break, a whole wonder and more rascality in a slight waste and even that so infinitely noised even that is not a disaster in splendor and more titled climaxes more titled climaxes have miserable second voices than any voices and away is more than the resemblance that is necessary. ❋ Gertrude Stein (1910)

Over the next several months I had a few more "climaxes" as God took me deeper and gave me an insatiable appetite for theology, 'the study of God.' ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra is a perfect orchestral warhorse, as colorful as Stravinsky, as mercurial as Prokofiev, as resourcefully orchestrated as Ravel, featuring near-Bachian counterpoint in some sections and eruptive emotional climaxes. ❋ Brad Hill (2011)

And Kathleen Byron's celebrated turn as the unhinged Sister Ruth climaxes in a suspenseful sequence that's hard to forget. ❋ John Farr (2011)

If we can let go of goal-oriented pleasure, what we may find is that our climaxes orgasms may become even more amazing, delicious, and earth shattering than ever before! ❋ Maria Rodale (2011)

The novel climaxes with President Kramer's uphill battle for reelection. ❋ Patrick Anderson (2010)

European soccer's grueling, two-year qualifying tournament for next summer's Euro 2012 climaxes Tuesday in Lisbon, as Portugal faces Bosnia and Herzegovina in a classic jitter-inducing test of a soccer power. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Merkin's series (which features Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo ) incorporates the additional innovation of having all of its participants compose scores for Buster Keaton 's silent-film comedies, and climaxes with a performance by the expressive Howard Fishman (offering a score to Keaton's "Frozen North"). ❋ Will Friedwald (2012)

You could hardly have asked for a more marked contrast in the approach to a season finale than this weekend's first-season climaxes of HBO's magnificent Game of Thrones and AMC's flawed though often fascinating The Killing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Finally, the courtroom drama that climaxes Eclipse is based on the show trial in which Saro-Wiwa was condemneda Kafkaesque perversion of the forms of justice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

About troubled teen lovers fleeing the adult world, it climaxes with an extended party scene featuring music by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Leonard Cohen and Alice Cooper. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2010)

Lynette's insistence that Tom toughen up his parenting style climaxes with him finding her doing a keg stand at a high school party when she goes looking for Parker, and it's only then they finally get on the same page. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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