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crescendo

noun as in increase to climax

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Accompanying Hedda throughout is a choir of scooping notes, which by the film’s chaotic finale crescendo into a slightly horrific melee of wild vocals.

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A crescendo is building, and the Rams might be best to ignore it.

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The story’s emotional climax, the crescendo of his bold answer to Shakespeare’s soliloquy, is drenched in golden hues to underscore a life or death choice.

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The music in the air swells into a crescendo, as if I’m in the middle of a choreographed Lion King song-and-dance number.

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Over tattered drum and bass patterns, retro-futuristic crescendos and ephemeral melodies, Twigs attempts to bottle the way dance music makes her feel.

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