But Nadia's climactic decision to return to Iraq also doesn't emerge as quite the heroic stance Hare envisages.
It got the unforgettable, climactic conclusion it deserved.
If Harriet's plans become gratuitously elaborate — at one point she steals a deadly cobra and hurls it from an overpass into a speeding Trans Am — so do the nearly five hundred pages between her decision to find Robin's murderer and the climactic revelation at the book's end.
For many years Frazier and his family were unforgiving of the decision, believing that Ali was equally vulnerable in those climactic moments, but one day Futch encountered his old fighter's daughter Jackie in Las Vegas.
In its final scene, the kids, after begging her to stay, paraphrase Dylan Thomas to literally tell her: "We see you as being our light!" The real-life Johnson, however, was most annoyed by the filmmakers' decision to kill off Emilio for the sake of climactic dramatic impact.
The opening number "To Build a Home" perfectly encapsulates what binds the people of this small Midwestern town and foreshadows the impossible decision Francesca is faced with in the show's climactic moment.
Underneath all that fustian, I can in fact find something attributable to John F. Kennedy, to a climactic line of his Convention acceptance speech: "I am saying to you that my decisions on every public policy will be my own, as an American, as a Democrat, and as a free man".
Ms. O'Hara also made the questionable decision to perform a light, swinging version of "Fable," her co-star Victoria Clark's climactic number from "The Light in the Piazza".
It was a curiously bathetic contrast to the climactic suspense of an afternoon in which fingernails must have been bitten to the bone across France and Ireland as final-minute decisions by television match officials in both Paris and Rome helped to decide the destiny of the title.
He brought sweeping flourishes to climactic phrases.
