Or perhaps it's a hymn to the ecstasy of Old Father Thames, excited by the priapic monuments shooting up along his banks and caught mid-climax in a spaffy tangle.
It reminded me of a moment in The Silence of the Lambs: mid-climax, the psychopath, wearing night-vision goggles, beholds Jodie Foster helpless in the dark, brandishes his weapon, relishing his potency.
You've probably never seen your face mid-climax, but I'd bet good money it looks similar to the face you pull when you're struggling to lift weights at the gym.
McKee credits himself with inventing the language of Hollywood – with its talk of the "mid-point climax", the "inciting incident" and the "negation of the negation", a phrase that originated with Hegel, but in movies means something like "the ultimate negative": a fallen hero who is not merely defeated but wants to die, or a character who doesn't simply lose faith in God but begins to hate God.
Haug leads the series with two events remaining - the Stokholm race in August and the mid-September climax in London at which the series could be decided.
Not because there was anything too graphic or intense, but because I don't think that mid-film emotional climax would sit well with her particular personality.
Either way, you're on your porn site of choice, tapping in the search terms that you know are guaranteed to lead to the sort of mid-afternoon weekend climax you've come to know with a gentle familiarity.
The US-Iran detente has roots in attempts to solve the nuclear standoff between the Islamic republic and the west, which will reach another climax in mid-July.
Few of us would go that far, but hundreds of millions of people will join in the four-yearly global communion about to begin in Brazil, the spiritual home of "O Jogo Bonito" through whatever means of communication at their disposal all the way through to its climax in mid-July.
The narrative takes precedence on some mid-album clunkers, but the climax is full-bore grand.
Polyphonic lieder reached a climax in the mid-16th century with the songs of Ludwig Senfl and his contemporaries.
