Sentence examples for by the climactic from inspiring English sources

By the climactic battle, the obligations of allegory have drained life from Tepper's otherwise spirited characters.

A Starlight Parade featuring illuminated floats takes place June 2, followed by the climactic Grand Floral Parade on June 9.

Mr. Schreiber and the charming Nicole Leach do beautifully by the climactic courtship scene between Henry and Katharine.

After the vicarious physical workout provided by the climactic chase sequences, I had built up an appetite for a hearty dinner after the show.

As for the overhead visions of violence and claustrophobic horror, they are clearly influenced by the climactic sequence of Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

There is the horror of death combined with a Thanatos-like longing for its deliverance – one line in particular shows how Happy End has been inspired by the climactic moment of his previous film, Amour.

Philippe Jordan, music director of the Paris Opera, where she recently sang Brünnhilde in new productions of the "Ring" operas, commented last month on the excitement she creates by touching the climactic note of a big phrase lightly at first, then setting it ablaze with a flash of extra volume.

With 5.2 seconds left, Jordan elicited a Chicago lead, 87 86, by making the climactic jump shot of his career.

Mark Bowden's "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War" is a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the climactic battle in the short, ill-fated American military campaign in Mogadishu.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (also won by "Billy Bathgate") and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction (also won by "Ragtime and Billy Bathgatete"), a finalist for the National Book Award (won by "World's Fair") and the Pulitzer Prize, "The March" was widely recognized as a signature book, treated by critics as the climactic work of a career.

Paul Rudd (in his first lead role) and Sean William Scott (in his best work since The Rundown) bring just enough plausibility to the film, so that by the time the climactic action scene goes down (and said climax is truly the best action scene of the year), you're laughing because you realize you're more invested in the 'comic action' than you were in the many summer action spectacles.