Six out of the seven vignettes that I chose - ranging from a toast I gave at my sister's wedding to a presentation I made to an assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury - all followed the same pattern: a creative process of brainstorming, followed by a logical sequencing of facts, culminating in some sort of public performance.
That account of Stalin's attitude is substantiated by a whole series of public gestures at the time, culminating in the fact that, when the People's Liberation Army (successor to the Red Army) took the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, the Soviet ambassador was the only foreign diplomat to accompany the retreating Nationalist government to Guangzhou.
He is improbably desired by a woman who counts the square feet of every room she's in so of course he has to be toxic to Trudy, resorting to all the familiar, blood-boiling assumptions of the olden days (culminating in the fact that she is a mother, so should not be necking in cars).
In fact, culminating the process required the messiah to break the law in order to redeem his people, thus opening the "counter-historical" notion of antinomianism that lay dormant in so much of mystical Jewish doctrine.
My existence is culminated by the fact that I am just another cube monkey working for the man, inhabiting an apartment in the supposed greatest city on earth which is actually an urban jungle that wretches my stomach everytime I walk out the door but hey at least I'm famous, right?
Emails of increasing desperation followed, culminating in the news that I was in fact the … er... winner.
In fact the song becomes a motif, culminating in its use in the end credits, an ironic calling card for fate and destiny.
Combining alcohol and yoga — yes, that's a thing — is Vino Vinyasa, a class at which yoga poses are interspersed with fun facts about Merlots and Chardonnays, the hourlong lesson culminating with a couple of glasses of sparkling wine.
Thereafter Ieyasu and his successors reigned over more than 250 years of almost unbroken peace, culminating with the restoration of the emperor as ruler in fact, not merely in name.
The culminating shock of "Imbeciles" — a book full of shocking anecdotes — is the fact that Buck v. Bell is still on the books and was cited as precedent in court as recently as 2001.
His education, culminating at the Portsmouth Northern secondary school, was patchy and inadequate, a fact of which he sometimes spoke bitterly and which made the right to a decent education one of his great political passions.
