Sentence examples for climactic passage from inspiring English sources

Grins broke out in the audience during the climactic passage where the pianist pounds the lower end of the instrument in tandem with the timpani and bass drum.

Gleefully jigging motifs and bawdy brass outbursts rush by before a climactic passage strikingly similar to the finale of Barber's concerto.

Over four movements, the music lurches between hectic orchestral noises and plaintive tonal harmonies, until, in a climactic passage, the wedges are removed, the tape is ripped off the strings, and the piano is allowed to sing out fully.

Even more eloquently, in a climactic passage about the audacity of the modern novel, he allows words to fail him: 'And Ulysses!' he says, leaving the exclamation mark to convey his reverence for it.

The climactic passage of "The Origin" 's opening chapter is at once innocently wide-eyed and scalpel-sharp conclusive, using the amused first person to make the central, impersonal point: I have discussed the probable origin of domestic pigeons at some, yet quite insufficient, length; because when I first kept pigeons and watched the several kinds.

And one of the most transfixing moments (and there are many) has no guitar whatsoever: two-thirds of the way through "Devele Wague," on "Green," he stops playing to sing a climactic passage, accompanied by nothing more than a clacking calabash.

His voice became compressed and nasal in climactic passages early on but grew freer as the night wore on.

The extreme violence of the climactic passages makes the moments of quieter tension all the more telling.

Though the string sound was luscious, the playing overall was somewhat hard-driven, and too blaring in climactic passages.

And every symphony has climactic passages where the beauty seems to capture the essence of even the most complex work.

Long strings of this chord, moving rapidly up and down the scale for purely colouristic purposes, also appear in climactic passages of the tone poem Les Préludes, by Franz Liszt, expressing the struggle of the soul against supernatural forces.