The person who makes the picture makes the picture in terms of the effect of these cuts on an audience, and [how] the entire sequence mounts to climax is a matter of his art and his way of cutting this thing.
After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax.
I don't think she knew a thing about Ben Reuven's murder: her mounting anger climaxed in showing serious nerve to stand up to Daniel like that: a Nessa with "nothing else to lose" means bad news for a lot of people.
The earlier settings tend to be either outbursts of rapture growing in wavelike patterns of mounting intensity to climax near the end, or else, where most of the Verlaine poems are concerned, pieces at once deliciously fine and self-mocking.
Ron Carlson's new novel is a love story and a wilderness adventure that mounts to a climax of shocking, and satisfying, violence.
However, he was persuaded by Lady Bragg, who had enjoyed the book, to change his mind and in the end he agreed to write a foreword for it, describing The Double Helix as a "drama of the highest order; the tension mounts and mounts towards the final climax".
Fueled by Mr. Metz's crisp hi-hat and snare, Mr. Tignor's wheeling motifs mount to a cathartic climax ignited by Stephen Griesgraber's snarling guitar.
On Sunday, pilgrims prayed on Mount Arafat at the climax of hajj.
The scene starts well but feels overwrought — too tightly packed, too obviously mounted for its horrible climax.
The scene starts well but feels overwrought too tightly packed, too obviously mounted for its horrible climax.
The work mounts towards its horrifying climax with a great respect for the dead, but then founders in the chaos, smoke and grief, uncertain how to end.
