Fourth-century sculptors, led by Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus, gathered and expressed the best of what had been learned before of anatomy, pattern, and composition; by adding emotional appeal they can be said to have achieved the logical culmination of the Classical tradition, in which Phidian sculpture in the 5th century was but one brilliant and influential episode.
But that's not the biggest risk for Turnbull if he achieves the ultimate culmination of his life's ambition on Saturday.
It's the culmination of decades of grueling, determined, all-consuming training to achieve the seemingly impossible.
The celebration of Razaf, who to this day has barely achieved cult recognition, was the culmination of a three-evening exploration of pop lyric vernaculars in American songwriting.
In my book "Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony," I argue that the so-called "Turkish march" is the first step toward a rapprochement between West and East, the culmination of which is achieved in the finale's second double fugue.
Similarly, in his notes, Chiang describes how "Story of Your Life" "grew out of [an] interest in the variational principles of physics": perhaps surprisingly, the tenderness of this story, and its astonishingly moving culmination, are not achieved despite the scientific speculation, but are direct functions of it.
Our wonderful result in the summer – we came second in Europe, qualifying for the World Championships for the first time – was the culmination of the progress we achieved when our programme had funding.
It's the culmination of everything you worked so hard to achieve during those long, grueling months of training.
The World Cup triumph was the culmination of years of effort, but what happens to achievers, once they have achieved?
The event marked the culmination of a long struggle by the left to achieve national political power.
