"You try and build up your support to crescendo on polling day and make sure your vote turns out," he says, adding that he enjoys the team spirit of canvassing but is suffering from a case of "candidate-itis".
At some point, as the Greek crisis lurches to its crescendo, Syriza – the radical left party – will call a meeting of something called a central committee.
The show builds to a furious crescendo that sees Yannis frantically hammering away at his guitar while standing on top of the bar at the rear of the venue as the band build up a frenzy onstage.
Bosses at the world's big five oil companies have been showered with bonus payouts linked to a $1tn £650bnn) crescendo of spending on fossil fuel exploration and extraction over nine years, according to Guardian analysis of company reports.
As soon as Lââm picked up the mic, the hissing started, rising quickly to a high-pitched crescendo of whistling which carried through the stadium like bad feedback.
The bitter fight became entwined in the leadership tensions that were reaching a crescendo at the time.
It has plenty of nods to big Whitney Houston-style productions, yet keeps an uneasy edge – Mayberry cooing "I am going to come for you, with everything I have," sounding equal parts infatuated and vengeful, the ambiguity reaching a crescendo over handclaps and tweaking synths.
11 04: All told, pretty solid, but it is a shame he got off his stride at the very end and drained much of the force from his rhetorical crescendo.
But in recent months, the debate about the "break-up of Britain" has reached a sort of crescendo among the rarefied collection of writers and politicians who care passionately about it.
But the rate of death rose in a very visible crescendo with the colonising missions that began in the 17th century: colonisers' languages were indispensable parts of their "civilising" toolkits.
The leading role in America's slowdown has been played by business investment as has been shown clearly in the earnings being reported or forecast by makers of high-tech kit and software.As the season when most big American companies announce their results reaches a crescendo, the days seem infinitely distant when quarterly profits stormed up by 20% from one year to the next.
