She says, "No", and when he asks her, "Don't you love me anymore?" and she responds with the climactic line: "I am not sure if I love you, but I am sure I don't need you anymore!" She has finally come to the realization that she can survive financially, emotionally and mentally without him.
He recalls, "At a climactic meeting I had with the vestry, one member got up and said, 'I am told on good authority that you are an undercover agent for the N.A.A.C.P., that you are here to subvert Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis.' That was a typical response to the work I was doing.
At a climactic point, I launched a mass accelerando.
At the climactic moment I turned and faded away into the crowd, waiting for my chance.
And, yet, in the climactic moments, I still heard Grandfather Liu let out a tiny gasp, as if he was unsure how it all ends up.
During the show's climactic second half — I'm not kidding — he has the household's black servants moanin' low as Brick tells his father the truth about his imminent mortality.
Every role is significant in an opera so rich with ensembles, including a climactic Act I sextet almost as memorable as the enduring sextet from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," and more contrapuntally intricate.
Yet as we hurried past bones, stuffed animals and a mother photographing a child in front of a stuffed whooping crane, and hurriedly read about fossils, tribal rituals and staggering climactic changes, I found myself becoming less interested in deciphering the amusing, complicated clues.
That piece becomes the movie's climactic ballad, "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" (and not written by Ms. Spears), a wistful anthem of generational angst whose lyrics coyly circle around the drama of the singer's self-proclaimed chastity.
The impressive baritone Gerald Finley, who created the daunting lead role unforgettably, brings his portrayal to the Met, grown even richer, more vocally visceral and emotionally nuanced, especially during Oppenheimer's climactic Act I aria, a setting of Donne's "Batter My Heart".
