Denouement

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. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For instance, when we read a detective novel, we have a different experience of the story before and after the denouement is reached. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The revelation in the mystery's denouement is so shocking and smart that the entire tale is turned upside down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like much of the plot, this denouement is not clear in the film, from which Mr. Kubrick cut most of the expository material. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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." ❋ Unknown (2007)

That sad denouement is another symbol, standing for our defeat in the larger war of ideas. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The denouement is the perfect climax to a tale as refreshing as a month in the country-the country of Botswana. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Waite throws a wonderful hook into the story to pull it all together, and the denouement is one for the silver screen. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Harris 'usual command of sense description does not fail her, ever, but the breathtaking denouement is marred by LeMerle's unremitting and soulless viciousness. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For Cohen, the ending, as Monty is trapped and shot "like a rat," would particularly reinforce the audience identification with him as an underdog-hero-victim, and he read the denouement from the perspective of an unregenerated anti-Semite: "What the hell kind of justice is that, a soldier, who fought for his country, just for roughing up some smart-aleck Jew, and when the soldier was blind drunk and on a tear? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Until the denouement, that is, when a delicate white light from within indicated that the hapless duck remained fully alive inside the wolf ' s belly. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2010)

If that phrase sounds familiar, you might recall the denouement of "The Philadelphia Story," when a woozy Tracy Lord, played by Katharine Hepburn, awakens to realize an overindulgence in champagne the night before has knocked her off her pedestal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The plot was alright, the denouement was a bit blah. ❋ Natinski (2002)

Savarus 'retirement to a Carthusian monastery and fate's punishment of Philomene, who is mutilated and disfigured in a railway accident, form the denouement, which is strained to the improbable. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)

In view of what Mr. Pitman would have called the denouement, his attitude is easily explained. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

Dumas 'idea was that the denouement is a mathematical total, and that before writing the first word of a piece the author must know the end and have decided the action. ❋ Unknown (1910)