Sentence examples for climax are from inspiring English sources
The assassination scene, Cybulski's death and the slow motion polonaise climax are stunningly realised.
The possible outcomes during the last-day climax are varied, but again, there are a few characters and subplots to watch.
Variety and climax are achieved by contrast in number of voices and texture, by the richness and complexity of melodic figuration, sometimes by changes in metre and tempo.
The long build-up and drawn-out climax are gripping and cinematic, the guitar solo akin to Warren Ellis's plaintive violin playing with the Dirty Three.
What provides a dramatic focus and leads to an escalating climax are the nefarious activities of the hotel's night manager, a Spaniard nicknamed 'Sneaky' and played with a sleazy charm by Sergi López, the unforgettable Hitchcockian psychopath in the French film, Harry, He's Here to Help.
(The musical director, Larry Pressgrove, sitting humbly at the keyboard, looks dumbfounded when Jeff asks him a question. "It's O.K., Larry, Jefff says. "We've worked it out with the union, so you can talk".) The passages that follow the eventual triumph at the festival, the show's natural climax, are less compelling.
Yet climax is never reached.
The climax was yet to come: "New York, New York".
The climax is hard and quick.
The climax is shocking and bloody.
