climactic
Example Sentences
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He kept reworking the confrontation scene between Salieri and Mozart, the play’s climactic moment in which irony once again gets the better of tragic recognition.
From Los Angeles Times
In Granite: So many gawkers visited the abandoned house used in the climactic ending of “The Blair Witch Project” that the state eventually demolished the structure, saying it was too unsafe.
During climactic scenes he pumped thousands of gallons of fake blood through the sub.
And indeed, there will be, leading to a climactic scene I don’t suppose was meant to make me laugh, but did, magnifying as it does one of the confrontational cliches of modern cinema.
From Los Angeles Times
The storm, which the government described as an "extreme climactic event", left schools shuttered, buildings damaged and travel severely disrupted.
From BBC
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