Its very name evokes an end-of-days messianism, a culmination to centuries of exile and struggle, yet its key promulgators were antireligious hotheads who cut themselves off emotionally and historically from their forebears.
With all the Y2K furor it's easy to forget that for most Americans not so long ago the turn of the millennium carried profound spiritual weight: it signified the end of time, the culmination of history, when good and evil faced off and the heavenly kingdom arrived on earth.
It was meant to be journey's end; the culmination of the cuckoo's 4,000-mile 4,000-mileunt African caterpillars before returning to England to become the sound of the spring.
And that's what I want to be with you," Chuck told Blair towards the end of the episode, the culmination of so many seasons of "one step forward and two steps back" characterization.
Climax or Selling Climax: The culmination or end of a protracted period of selling, characterized by high volume, forced margin selling, extreme degrees of negative market breadth (also in prior years a late ticker tape)–and panic.
But he thought the notion of development relies implicitly on the idea of an end or culmination.
The end of the tariffs marked the culmination of a 14-year transition to free trade between Mexico, the United States and Canada under the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Few Americans have warmed to NAFTA Hillary Clinton, whose husband Bill fought for its ratification when president, has promised to review it if she is elected.
That sentence absolutely belongs at the end of Wild; it is a culmination of all the sentences that came before it.
It was, of course, a different culmination this year: the end of months of criminal investigation, and a formal charge of murder.
New Zealand scored their first try at the end of the third minute, the inevitable culmination of a non-stop exhibition of power and angles from the kick‑off that was both brutal and beautiful.
