In the Soviet Union, however, the arrival of a Sixties cinema was complicated by an additional climactic shift known as the Thaw.
Textbooks on terrorism define its effects in four stages: first the horror, then the publicity, then the political grandstanding, and finally the climactic shift in policy.
In fact it has a kind of parallel structure to Love's Last Shift: in the climactic scene of Cibber's play, Amanda's virtue reforms her husband, and in the corresponding scene of The Relapse, it reforms her admirer Worthy.
His death while being held in a chokehold by police shifts the picture's climactic riot to another level.
Orgasmic, which has 50 times as many Google hits as its modifying rival, orgastic, has in recent years been rapidly gaining in usage because its primary sense has been shifting from the clinical "climactic" to the metaphoric "joyful".
The poll, intended to measure day-to-day shifts in public opinion during this climactic week, found that the public was only just beginning to recognize that the House was on the verge of impeaching Mr. Clinton.
Momentum has seemed to shift by the day in a climactic struggle over what kind of change Egypt will undergo and whether Egyptian officials are sincere about delivering it.
It's a reflection of Hinshelwood's skill that the climactic car chase is almost boring, coming after so many exciting shifts in perspective and locale.
The delights on show here are enigmatic and rare, a subtly shifting atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion and a climactic moment whose perpetrator, the eponymous Ford, is to act out on stage 800 times.
MMC) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 20 August ("The delights on show here are enigmatic and rare, a subtly shifting atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion and a climactic moment whose perpetrator, the eponymous Ford, is to act out on stage 800 times.
