Sentence examples for shattering climax from inspiring English sources
The eruption of Vesuvius naturally brings all the threads of Harris's novel together for a literally shattering climax.
Strangely, the movie plays like an extended, dully methodical exposition that serves solely to reach its shattering climax.
By the time the Young Woman meets her lover (Morgan Spector) in a Speakeasy, Machinal has you hooked and doesn't loosen its hold on the senses until its shattering climax.
Cut by cut, "How Glory Goes" (Nonesuch 79580-2) purposefully builds to a quietly shattering climax that segues "Somewhere" from "West Side Story" into "How Glory Goes" from Mr. Guettel's 1994 Off-Broadway show "Floyd Collins".
From the near-endless horizon created in its opening to the shattering climax of the second movement (brilliantly stage-managed by Mr. Barenboim and his players), this is overpowering beauty.
Having guided the huge span of the first movement faultlessly to its shattering climax and profoundly unsettling close, Haitink made the two scherzos that follow all the more menacing by exerting restraint and keeping them rhythmically tight.
But despite earnest and sometimes biting performances by Mr. Sarandon, Mr. Harner and Mr. Rosenfield, the production as a whole never builds as strongly as it needs to its shattering climaxes.
"Once these larger-than-life figures are set on their fatal collision course, 'Choice of Arms' moves with contained fury toward a series of unforeseen, shattering climaxes," Mr. Ansen wrote.
In the first movement, a brooding Moderato that builds to shattering climaxes, he drew transparent playing from the Philharmonic, allowing the rigorous contrapuntal writing to come through with affecting presence.
(Cannon's own hard-bodied, mask-like toughness leads to a shattering dramatic climax).
Suddenly, out of this bleakness, the full orchestra hurls into a tumult of trumpet fanfares and bedazzling strings: from the silence of the grave to shattering fortissimo climax, all in barely three minutes.
