Sentence examples for climactic contest from inspiring English sources

Now Mr. Obama is in the climactic contest of his career, about to receive the ultimate judgment on his performance from the American people.

At the climactic contest, Hinge, Minge, Bracket and Annie Mary execute a spectacularly zany program change that is almost worth waiting for.

"The Frogs" remained famous over the centuries not for its belly laughs but for that climactic contest between the playwrights: the severe, grand Aeschylus and the more accessible, poetic Euripides.

Grab the public's attention and take them on an incident-packed journey to a climactic contest for the big prize.

The climactic contest took place in California, with Humphrey attacking McGovern in several televised debates; in the June 6 vote, McGovern defeated him by five percentage points and claimed all the delegates due to the state's winner-take-all rules.

The man with more appearances (5) and wins (5) in seventh games of the NBA Finals as well as more overall NBA championships (11) than any other player in history had a courtside seat for the climactic contest between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.

On the eve of climactic contests in 16 states, the two Democratic presidential candidates seemed to look past each other as they stumped through New York City yesterday: Vice President Al Gore toward the general election and former Senator Bill Bradley toward his place in history.

Sixtus Beckmesser, the pedantic villain of the piece, emerges as an outcast hipster hero, his mangled contribution to the climactic song contest refashioned as defiant performance art.

Australia is set to experience a heady cocktail of glorious weather and climactic sporting contest this weekend, with much of the south-east of the country bathing in pre-summer heat.

But as matters progressed — with the Mastersinger and cobbler Hans Sachs coaching the young knight Walther von Stolzing for the climactic song contest, which would in the end win Walther the hand of his beloved Eva — the orchestral fabric grew richer, more coherent and more vibrant throughout its ceaseless flow.

After a try-sweetened opening round of Six Nations matches, the second helping was a little harder to swallow: I felt there was something anti-climactic about the contest in Dublin, fierce though it undoubtedly was.