Sentence examples for as a denouement from inspiring English sources

As a denouement, it is entirely appropriate.

The war that followed, therefore, was not so much a new departure as a denouement.

It happens not as a denouement but halfway through, as a crisis, since Trujillo's long-overdue removal opens the way for politics of a less lethal sort to resume in the Republic.

Yesterday's announcement served as a denouement for Richard L. Scott, the former chairman of Columbia who was once celebrated as a visionary reformer of the hospital industry but who was ultimately forced to resign under pressure as allegations of wrongdoing at his company mounted.

As a denouement to his affecting memoir, he describes the disruptive 2006 protest at Gallaudet over the choice of a new president, from his vantage point as a member of the search committee.

In his absence, it becomes easier to interpret Obama's presidency as a denouement in the American experiment.

In "France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era," Philip Nord, a professor of modern and contemporary history at Princeton, challenges the "Liberation myth," arguing that the era represents "a denouement as much as a fresh start".

Murder by Contract (1958), directed by Irving Lerner, is a deadpan joke on noir, with a denouement as bleak as any of the films it kids.

At the same time, the story is a mess, from the opening in which Philip is inexplicably put in a cell by monsters that otherwise only try to kill him to a denouement that makes as little sense.

There was little hope that this time his warmongers' duplicity and ill will would serve as a red herring: a denouement that exonerates the Oval Office, 10 Downing Street and the Mossad would be as shocking to contemporary British fiction as the "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was to detective novels in the 1920s.

Dufosse himself was a school teacher, and his insight into the Machiavellian intrigues of staffroom and classroom alike lend this unsettling novel veracity, with staff continuing to bicker over timetable changes and budget cuts even as a terrible denouement gathers pace.