Sentence examples for for a climax from inspiring English sources

When Warner Brothers was making "Night and Day," Orson Welles cracked: "What will they use for a climax?

For a good 70 pages it seems we're heading for a climax of gory action and disclosure, illuminated by an instructive edifice of historical reference.

The feeling of betrayal has now reached a more feverish pitch with the US administration's ongoing efforts, aiming for a climax this week in Washington, to pass the new Start treaty with Russia, which would inevitably ease east-west tensions.

Mr. Melamed knows that trope won't wash anymore, but he doesn't have anything to replace it; what passes for a climax here is the kids' realization that they might as well stop struggling, relax and take their medications.

The roller coaster battle for Hong Kong's flagship telephone company was headed for a climax today, as the board of the company's British parent, Cable and Wireless P.L.C., prepared to meet over the weekend to consider competing offers for Cable and Wireless HKT.

Accordingly he seems to lose control of his own storytelling, and the film spins into pure surrealism for a climax that somehow involves Ms. Channing in a John Paul Jones outfit, leading a flotilla of love boats in an attack on God's yacht (borrowed from John Wayne for the occasion) while belting out the maddeningly catchy title song like the leather-lunged Broadway trouper she was.

Some impressionistic piano notes and an out-of-nowhere exclamation—"All right!"—at around the five-minute mark make for something of a climax, but the song doesn't really need one.

Their final at Wimbledon was everything you could ask for as a climax to the sport's showpiece tournament: tough, competitive and full of rasping power.

This blaming an author for being himself reached a climax for Fitzgerald when, in 1936, he published in Esquire the series of confessional pieces titled "The Crack-Up".

The Triple Tiara, New York's version of the Triple Crown for fillies, reaches a climax at Belmont Park tomorrow with the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at a mile and one-half.

The Old Economy, which includes manufacturing, basic industries and retail, began to weaken a year ago, just as enthusiasm for tech stocks reached a climax.