It's a happy hive of activity, where everything we do leads to the ultimate climactic payoff for any woodworker: the application of the oil finish.
The scenes of Elizabeth being questioned for possible misconduct provide this deftly time-shuffling movie with a narrative spine, even as they lay the suspenseful groundwork for either her climactic victory or her ultimate defeat.
Still, as embodied with convincing anguish by Mr. Culkin in a wrenching climactic scene, the boy's ultimate eviction from this Eden leaves you desolate with the sense of loss.
(Years later, when I read "1984," the climactic horror for me, the ultimate sign of Winston's disintegration and surrender, was his being forced, under torture, to deny that two and two is four. Even more terrible was the fact that eventually he began to doubt this in his own mind — that, finally, numbers failed him, too).
The climactic sights of the Kozlowski tape perhaps the ultimate in so-called "guilty-pleasure" voyeurism were the close-ups of coveted paintings by Monet, Renoir and other artists; and the apartment's views of New York's Central Park.
Now Mr. Obama is in the climactic contest of his career, about to receive the ultimate judgment on his performance from the American people.
But as the film moves from crisis to crisis – nightmare close shaves, emotional moments of truth, a climactic flood – we miss a deeper sense of what would probably strike most of us as the ultimate horror of all this.
Vanya's ultimate gesture of revolt is to steal his father's knife, a transgression that seems to unleash the climactic disaster.
He brought sweeping flourishes to climactic phrases.
The climactic scenes are utterly revolting.
