Sentence examples for climactic day from inspiring English sources

It is the final, supposedly climactic day of the conference.

The back-to-back appearances by Mr. Ovitz, just before 9 a.m., and Ms. Busch, for three hours afterward — including her contentious cross-examination by Mr. Pellicano — made for a climactic day in the five-week-old trial.

But Mr. Bradley's aides said that after spending more than a year building toward March 7, quitting before the climactic day arrived would disappoint and possibly infuriate thousands of volunteers and supporters.

By Monday, the festival's climactic day, the rest of the program was simply canceled, the musicians and dancers sent back to Baghdad after lunch.

These are all lines from John Wray's third novel, "Lowboy" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25), an account of one climactic day in the life of Will Heller, known as Lowboy, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, who has gone off his medication, eluded the staff at the clinic that was looking after him, and is riding the subway trains, convinced that the "world's going to die in ten hours".

The specter of more rain, and possible early-morning lightning that could push the event's finish to Monday, has disrupted the natural flow of the event and threatened a climactic Sunday finale.

After an extraordinary five-week roller coaster of contests, the Republican presidential contenders head into Tuesday -- the most consequential and climactic primary day of the 2000 campaign -- with Senator John McCain determined, at long last, to crack Gov. George W. Bush's hold on party loyalists.

The two are headed for a climactic showdown Saturday in the South Carolina presidential primary.

Finally, there is the climactic three-day blowout — an extravaganza worthy of a decadent Roman emperor — commemorating Valentino's 45th anniversary in fashion.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla .— With a dramatic flourish and a triumphant gesture, Camilo Villegas of Colombia brought his storybook week to a climactic finish Sunday, winning the Honda Classic by five strokes over Anthony Kim with a birdie on the 72nd hole that brought the huge, partisan gallery to its feet.

Volume on the SPY was potentially climactic last Thursday when the market roared back from its intraday lows, as it hit 546.7 million shares to overtake the late-July peak of 467.5 million.