It's like a song; you know where you want rises and falls, crescendos".
Why would an author who had built up an exciting crescendo fall flat with a horribly off-tune note right at the end?
It would rise in a crescendo and fall, rise and fall, then, typically, conclude with her head slightly lowered, a nod for each of the last three, separated, words.
Tonight at 8, "Purdy Delights," variety show; at 10, "Crescendo Falls," soap opera.
The sound of the waves and sea gulls, the voices and screams of children and families, the surf, rising and falling, its ceaseless crescendo and diminuendo, rushes at Ido as a terrible cacophony like the buzzing of mosquitoes, loud and inescapable.
Their chorus will be one of adoration: "Ave, Maria!" Nevertheless, the crescendo will fall short of Walter Scott's paean to another heroine of the same name: "Safe may we sleep beneath thy care, Though banish'd, outcast and reviled …" Even full-blown sycophancy has its limits.
The the fragile dome that once housed a precious romance just fell through in a crescendo of broken glass, shattering into a profound silence upon the ballroom floor; which just moments before played host to a wonderfully colorful, and passionate dance.
There are four tones: (1) high level, (2) high rising crescendo, (3) low falling diminuendo with glottal friction (with an extra rise from low to high when final), and (4) falling diminuendo.
Speaking of Dr. Vogel, her arc may have also reached a crescendo after her falling out with Dexter.
It is not always a rousing moment; it's more in the nature of an appeal, and the crowd often falls silent as Biden reaches his crescendo.
But the ratings quickly moved up with the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, turmoil in the Middle East, the presidential debates and, finally, into crescendo when the election fell into dispute.
