THE usual image of a ballet star's retirement is one of triumphant culmination: rapturous fans, showers of confetti, grand bouquets, embraces from the departing dancer's colleagues and loved ones.
One of the culminations is "Lawrence 1912 -- The Bread and Roses Strike" (1977), a vast canvas that depicts a mass gathering on the common with mill buildings in the background.
And in a passage that's supposed to be one of the emotional culminations of the novel, the narrator explains that Danny (now a father himself) "couldn't change what had happened to his son, the way a fiction writer could revise a novel".
Torres scored two outstanding goals to seal Liverpool's progress in the second half, one the culmination of a classic counter-attack, the other a touch of individual brilliance to settle the anguish eight minutes from time.
One of the major events of culmination is the formation of the stalk (DDANAT:0000093), a cylinder of dead, vacuolated stalk cells surrounded by a proteo-cellulose casing: the stalk tube (DDANAT:0000097).
Mitchell's vision of "California" is one of liberation, the geographical culmination of a "Go West" mentality that allowed her to meet her people and make the best music of her career, but it came with the complicated emotions about living so far from where she came from.
He's also, on form, one of the sharpest, least complacent acts in arena comedy, and this autumn sees the culmination of his biggest tour yet.
As the Sunday Times wrote, the operation was "the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror".
The discovery of Wnt1 as a mammary oncogene in the early 1980s was, in one sense, the culmination of many years of research on mouse models of breast cancer [ 1, 2].
The agreement was the culmination of one of the oddest free-agent courtships of this or many other off-seasons.
