"The election of Barack Obama was like a culmination of a struggle that we were going through, wanting to be pilots," said William M. Wheeler, 85, a retired Tuskegee combat fighter pilot who lives in Hempstead, N.Y.
Nick Hornby's last novel, "Juliet, Naked" (2009), felt like a culmination of a kind.
One can't say the same thing about Paterson, which feels both like a culmination and a rebirth for the director.
That development represents something like a culmination of a long-term trend that started in the 1890s, as America's economy transitioned from industrial to corporate capitalism, American law followed.
In a way, Blake Griffin's monster performance Tuesday night in a win over the Philadelphia 76ers (a career-high 50 points, 14 rebounds, six assists) felt like a culmination of all the work Griffin has put in since he was a rookie.
The resulting movie blends Larry Clark's low-country lyricism and the ecstatic splendor of Terence Malick with a pop-heavy soundtrack to remarkable effect, and the film feels like a culmination of Arnold's singular aesthetic.
"This is like a culmination of all the little tricks to make a track fast and they have brought them all here.
So yesterday felt like a culmination of all those things.
Nineteen sixty-three might have seemed like a culmination, but it was only the beginning.
The piece feels like a culmination of themes in Ms. Spradlin's recent work, and though this version is tighter, it could be tightened further.
It felt, he said, like a culmination: BMX, at the highest level of sport, on prime-time international television; BMXers in the opening ceremony, clad in red, white and blue.
