denouement

Weren't your deficiencies up front - and pretty much everywhere else - evident for months before your denouement with Brugge and the brutality of what followed?

A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.

The magic of the Cup rarely stretches to the denouement.

His grand denouement is meant to be a catharsis for a deliberately corrective slice of emotional history.

Leslie traces Lennon and McCartney’s friendship from its wide-eyed, teenaged origins through its tragic denouement.