crescendo
Example Sentences
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They appear about midway through the installation as an exciting crescendo.
It’s fitting that the trajectory leads not toward a splashy crescendo but the softer, melancholy landing of the finale “Our Time”: starry-eyed dreams sung on a rooftop in 1957.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a film so flush with ambition that it rarely crescendos; it can afford to chop sequences, songs, even genres, down to a string of snippets.
From Los Angeles Times
In previous films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert,” the writer-director managed to tee up more than a few last-minute emotional crescendos.
From Salon
North v south is the storyline to power the finale of next year's inaugural Nations Championships, with the hemispheres pitted against each other in the autumn crescendo at Allianz Stadium in Twickenham.
From BBC
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