At the same time, Julien frustrates the viewing public that hopes for some climactic resolution--or any kind of closure to the story.
The trial is being heralded as either a defining moment in the annals of civil rights, or an anti-climactic resolution of another senseless killing in gun-happy Florida.
Though FSM took place half a century ago, those who were there remember the events as if they happened yesterday: the thousands of students on Sproul Plaza surrounding the police car holding Weinberg; the mass sit-in at Sproul Hall and the mass arrests that followed; the cops jumping on Mario Savio as he attempted to speak at the Greek Theater; and the climactic Academic Senate resolution.
What is the logical, casual progression that leads each event to the next one, building in a continuous flow toward the story's climactic moment and resolution?
But again and again, seemingly climactic passages resist conventional resolution, increasing the music's tension right up to the majestic finale, "Dieu Parmi Nous" ("God Among Us"), which closes with a prismatic chord played at a thunderous quadruple-forte dynamic.
An Obama Administration official told me, "The first year of Clinton's second term was the resolution of the climactic moments of his third year.
One — showing, in a wink, an impalement — is the closest thing to gore that that film offers; the other, an agonizingly slow, if obvious, resolution to a climactic conflict, is its closest thing to sadism, to delight in injury and death.
The climactic birthday ball features a neat resolution to the characters' problems and includes a reunion of long-lost siblings that is downright Shakespearean.
The resolution releases the tension from the climactic conflict to end the narrative arc.
Climactic in volume rather than intensity, it meant that the ultimate resolution on the last C – cut-off anyway just as it arrives – seemed more than usually abrupt.
Its four movements seem constructed out of climactic waves that anticipate Mahler's orchestral style; they break in tentative resolution only to rise again.
