For a while, modular fragments swirled in a pleasant haze, but once all the limos had arrived a stronger compositional mechanism took over, moving toward a culminating idea: a pattern of intervals contracting on both ends, from a tenth to an octave to a sixth to a fourth to a second.
"Cheek to Cheek" is the culminating dance.
Coronation night was the culminating point of the entire carnival.
That new notion of nationhood engendered a deep interest in the classical past culminating in the ideas of the Neoplatonist philosopher Gemistus Pletho, who abandoned Christianity.
The i-lab will help finalist teams advance their ideas during the phase, culminating in the selection of one grand-prize winner and up to three runners-up.
While this strategy didn't work for Goldwater, the idea has only grown in power within the Republican Party, culminating in the nomination of Ronald Reagan in 1980, who remains the central figure in the Republican mind.
Instead of tear gas, he has used nationalist, imperialist ideas, culminating in the annexation of Crimea and the slow subjugation of south-east Ukraine.Hard power and softMr Putin's preferred method is "hybrid warfare": a blend of hard and soft power.
The idea of the hierarchy of saints, culminating in the quṭb, the pole or axis, thanks to whose activities the world keeps going, belongs to the mythology of Sufism.
This trend culminated with ideas about a genetically encoded "language module" in the brain, possessed of a language-specific set of rules that determine not just the structure of English, but of Swedish, Burmese, Kazakh, Czech, you name it.
She also became the leader of a salon where the ideas that culminated in the Revolution of 1848 were discussed by the outstanding writers, thinkers, and musicians of the day.
Not every scientist agrees, however, and several studies have since argued that the support for the idea is poor, culminating in a paper, written by Keith Millar, Adrian Bowman and William Battersby, that is published in the current issue of the journal Polar Record.
