“I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby,” I said. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gradual crescendo in the percussion section reached a climax that woke the audience. compare with/compare to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next ten minutes played out like the climax of a John Woo movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the aisles of country churches and grand city cathedrals, witnessed by a whole society of approving family and friends, her heroines and heroes reached their innocent climaxes and needed to go no further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The big hit of the evening was the second movement, the Allegretto, which has remained a public favourite ever since, notably providing the moving musical climax of the 2010 film The King’s Speech. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So for the perplexed audiences who first heard it in 1804 and 1805, even the funeral march is denied its thundering climax, collapsing rather than concluding. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never did find out what the stunning climax of the Volleyball Unit was. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The tug of war between the two elderly men reached a climax one winter day at noon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My partner showed that our experience had reached its climax by getting up abruptly, and my main concern was how to get home quickly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took almost an hour and was the climax to a long evening of effort. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the final climax came with the front of Holman’s bootery broken out and the party trying on the shoes in the display window only Gay didn’t hear the fire whistle. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington's sporting trophies. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the climax of a twelve-day manhunt that had gripped the nation, a heavily armed patrol of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry had cornered Lincoln’s assassin! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because this is the climax of the Hunger Games, and the audience expects a show. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some frightful thing had to climax this accelerating madness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you talk about Churchill’s “great rolling periods”— meaning his long, mellifluous sentences—you are primarily talking about sound effects: the gather and surge of a sentence toward its climax. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The conference unanimously voted to initiate a massive countrywide antipass campaign beginning March 31 and climaxing on June 26 with a great bonfire of passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, at the climax of every show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to think — a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue’s Clues, as the Thinking Chair. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opera’s climax, and I choose that word deliberately, appears to reward them for their selfishness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His climax came on him sudden as a storm, and he filled the girl's mouth with his seed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the mighty battle came to its climax, Gerald crawled up on a chair and stood on the kitchen table, waving his arms triumphantly. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed to Mrs. Hubbard to be a dramatic climax rather than an anticlimax. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rally reached its climax that night when Adolf Hitler stepped before the German parliament, the Reichstag, to introduce three new laws. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When she finally got to the end and shouted out the climax—which was supposed to make us all scream in fascinated terror—not much happened. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A crescendo is an increase in volume that leads to a climax. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the climax of its monumental opening chorus, with two adult choirs and a double-sized orchestra already in full sway, Bach introduces a new, majestically slower tune on top of the entire structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The start of World War II was not the climax to our life in Ocean Park. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it is powerful, it is not triumphant; it is agonising - at its climax is a leitmotif associated with suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Now, the final moment, the climax, almost like coming— “And here’s what you do, Goober.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the matter was finally climaxed in the episode at the Museum of Science and Industry. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The feeling seemed to be gathering toward a climax of some kind, a rush of movement around them so fierce it was almost deafening. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

To rush my worries to a climax, my mother also became ill. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The love interest and climax would come when a man and a lady, both strangers, got to talking together on the train going back east. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A mislaid rope may be called a lost cord, but the familiar musical phrase is lost chord. climax/crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A situation or apiece of music builds to a climax, not to a crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he told us that the next day would be the stunning climax of the Wrestling and Volleyball Units. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The waving man at the peak of the right triangle is the climax of this mood of rising hope and advancing motion. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I sensed we were about to reach some sort of climax.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debate over Lawrence’s future at Berkeley climaxed at an acrimonious faculty conclave pitting the hard sciences, represented by Birge and Lewis, against the humanities and social sciences departments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Leaping, roaring to climax, then the strength taken from fury, a quietening. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The true climax occurred after the grounds closed, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The climax came at noon one summer day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Seattle it reached its climax along the waterfront on July 18. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

News of Booth’s death traveled across the nation by telegraph, and newspapers rushed to print stories filled with the details of the manhunt’s climax at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Archie had provided the climax, the door-slammer—besides, the guys are starting to talk about how Renault was beaten up, how you needed the help of others and couldn’t do it yourself . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The climax of the week actually came that afternoon. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the logical climax of the whole misbegotten day, this whole out-of-joint term at Devon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agricultural depression, taken together with a series of failed reforms and broken political promises, had pyramided to a climax of social tensions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And in the same way that the first attack finished off one period in our lives, so this appalling climax marked the end of another. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a climax, I attempted to climb atop the wagon, but the solidity of my physique proved too taxing for that rather flimsy vehicle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wiseman reserves for the film’s climax two scenes in which Keith explicates his work in progress on a Rembrandt and a Velázquez. How We Look When We Look at a Painting 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Berger hears it as an ode to carnal joys: “It’s about sex. It’s got the whole buildup and the big climax and then, afterwards, you smoke a cigarette. It’s all in there.” Obsessed with Duke Ellington, one man is determined to illuminate the jazz composer’s stunning output 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

At the climax, we’re encouraged by Ui to vote either in support of or against his budding powers, but I and others near me chose to abstain. Once Cryptic, ‘The Treatment’ Now Proves Trenchantly Funny 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And the climax of the film is as inevitable as it is implausible. Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion 2010-09-02T12:34:00Z

The book is quiet until it isn’t, and the climax is appropriately simmering. Best science fiction and fantasy to read in May 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The actress’s second life online got a major boost recently with a widely dissected conspiracy theory involving “Mad Men,” which some speculate may be building toward a tragic Tate-style climax. Does Sharon Tate Hold a Clue to the ‘Mad Men’ Finale? 2014-05-09T20:14:44Z

James Hamblin, the usually brilliant health correspondent at the Atlantic, recently wrote an essay chastising Trump as the “climax of America’s masculinity problem.” Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The climax in both these cases is about two different views of heroism, the heroism of the loser and that of the winners. Sword vs. lightsaber: How the Samurai warrior inspired the Jedi Knights 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Q: The climax of the book — this huge, important race — you spend hundreds of pages getting to it. Q & A: Daniel James Brown on ‘The Boys in the Boat’ 2013-06-07T22:35:35Z

Conflict and climax are the only options in a reality-TV world in which the president of the United States reportedly watches four hours of cable news a day, at least. Perspective | Was 2017 the end of something or just the beginning? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

The "exotic" setting, the outsized passions, the cruel misunderstandings and tragic climax were the stuff Italian opera was made of. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z

“It was the climax of the night,” said the designer Alexander Wang. Scene City: Paris Celebrates the End of Fashion Week 2012-10-03T22:59:11Z

It has a chorus of "hold on to your memories and don't let go," courtesy of Ben, and a passionately cathartic percussion climax. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z

After all, we’re talking about reaching climax — when the overriding thought is often just “more!” Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

This was near the climax of “The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles,” a cynosure of this year’s FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia, which began on Sept. 8 and runs until Oct. Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Orchestral and grand, like the sad climax of a film. This week's new tracks 2012-10-12T23:05:45Z

Director and star Lina Esco keeps this compact film moving with enjoyable buoyancy until it bids adieu with a showy climax that needs a serious postscript. 'Free the Nipple' a provocative take on real-life movement 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even so, you may feel the need to use separate fantasy to climax. I have to fantasise about porn to climax with my boyfriend 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Niehoff has said the idea behind all these events is to "create a more tangible intimacy" between audience and artist that will climax in a show that's both a "spectacle" and deeply personal. Lingo dance company's 'Glimmer' takes journey from street to stage 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

“Black Panther is the beautiful aesthetic climax of just that ideology,” says Boyd-Pates. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

There are ringingly opulent climaxes in this most modestly scaled of his works, and Wednesday's performance realized them as successfully as the more reposeful passages that surround them. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z

The most abundant are the Perseids, which begin in mid-July and climax on Aug. 12. At the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, socially distanced stargazing 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The film’s climax is explosive, with Finney rattling off his conclusions about the case in a frenzied fever pitch. What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.) 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Within the novel’s curious design, what might have counted as a climax, and therefore the narrator’s awakening, comes just before the story begins, liberating the novel from it and making room for another, quieter resolution. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

As their stories play off one another and the political heat rises, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times, “the movie stays cool, its smooth, smart climax in keeping with its levelheaded tone.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Monsters and Men’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The play climaxed in a trashing of the set, and featured a tricky enactment of the custom of sabrage, in which the neck of a champagne bottle is sliced off with a sabre. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z

I won’t reveal the climax and anticlimax here, but will only say that I have never forgotten them. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The cluttered climax, in a Mother Bates cellar, explains little of the killers’ psychology; for that you have to read the book. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The pair's relationship is a slow burn that finally reaches an explosive — and satisfying — climax. 9 TV shows that center on South Asian desire, from "Mismatched" to "Starstruck" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

The piece gets a bad rap for its indulgent size and fitfully episodic structure, the way it can seem to be spinning its wheels for long stretches between bloated climaxes. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Thielemann refused to dwell on the climaxes, be they mountaintop vistas or thundering storms, blurring the boundaries between the episodes into an ever-shifting, gorgeously disorienting whole. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Den and Beera finally clash, on the wooden bridge, but what seems like the movie's climax is just where it starts to get interesting. Raavan: Scandal over a Bollywood King Kong 2010-06-24T04:35:00Z

Mr. Johnston’s voice soared at the climax, but the audience’s reaction was muted. Karaoke Singers Live the Dream at the Illinois State Fair 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

You think the bed scene is the climax of eroticism in the opera, and there is an element of drama that Juliette knows that Tybalt has been killed by Roméo. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

While both the Beckettian dimensions and the layers of meaning register with a certain force, it is possible, unfortunately, to watch the devastating climax of “Blood Knot” without feeling it gnaw at your insides. Theater Review: ?Blood Knot,? by Athol Fugard, at Signature Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:00Z

Their obsession with a boy band results in a panda-on-panda showdown that is part superhero film climax and part Sumo wrestling match. With ‘Turning Red,’ a Big Red Panda Helps Break a Glass Ceiling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

The whole thing is poorly staged and hits an absurdly loud climax that doesn't match the moment when the two lie on their backs in bed together. "Glee" report card: Which songs scored highest? 2010-04-28T11:01:00Z

And the episode’s action climax, with an army of Super Rays trying to save Jonathan at a Brooklyn ballpark, was especially fitting: this is a show that brings its A game to a minor-league setting. Bored to Death Finale: Family Affair 2011-11-29T15:41:01Z

“Because,” I replied, “my husband told me I don’t climax fast enough.” That was when I lost my body: The open-marriage request that opened my eyes 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Inevitably Clemons' introduction was the climax every night when Springsteen presented the individual band members to the audience, accompanied by a variety of regal nicknames like "Master of the Universe" and "King of the World." Clemons' death leaves void for Springsteen 2011-06-19T18:16:03Z

And its consonant mood returns in the finale, a meditative gathering of every singer, and nearly every instrumentalist, onstage for music of absolute solace, in a moment redolent of the communal, spiritual climax of “Atlas.” At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

The way his choreography ignores the climax of the dance-unfriendly music is unpleasing. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

But it becomes rather drifty and slack as it progresses, building to no particular climax or conclusion. Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The angelic quality of “Femenine” — not just quiet, peaceful angels, but the energetic, trumpeting kind, too — marked a climax in Eastman’s work. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

This past Sunday, he reached day 40, and the climax was one for the record books. The appeal and allure of the rotisserie chicken guy 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

As her speech reached its climax, she screamed into the microphone, about the effects of her family’s separation: “It is not temporary. It is forever. It is for life!” Actress Diane Guerrero Recounts Her Family’s Deportation Ordeal 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

But that momentum falters as the series searches for a suitable climax. ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ has its moments. Drew Barrymore isn’t responsible for any of them. 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Then suddenly — brrrrring! — an alarm clock erupts, and the game is over before it has reached its appointed climax. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z

Elegantly voiced chords morphed into sharp snippets of melody, glistening scales climaxed with sudden silences, whispered figures up in the stratosphere of the piano were answered with rumbling double octaves down below. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Compare the vacuity of this with the oratorical climax of Chaplin's The Great Dictator to remind yourself that comedy needn't turn its back on reality. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z

His stories climax in an OK Corral-type showdown against the villain. Anne Billson 2011-02-03T22:29:00Z

Hahn sustained an epic sense of line through cycles of harmonic tension and release, driving the music to its ecstatic climaxes with utter inevitability and retreating inward with doleful whispers. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

It’s that emphasis on construction — the cutting of the inessential, the calibrated build to a climax — that gives a sketch its zippy, fleet feeling. How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Animated snakes appear to hiss their approval at the climax of one acrobatic display. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z

The groin kick was the climax to what has become one of television’s most entertaining feuds. Watch Jon Stewart Kick Seth Rollins Where It Hurts 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Most impressive is how Ms. Paulus and her performers bring the anarchic good spirits to a climax that is suddenly and strikingly dramatic, despite the simplicity of its staging. | 'Hair': Back When Even War Seemed a Bit Less Scary 2011-07-14T02:01:04Z

As things become increasingly explicit, the screen turns black, leaving the audience lingering in darkness as the characters reach their aural climax. Sex Toys and Cybersex Are Enhanced by New Technology 2013-12-24T22:57:24Z

In any case, the moral ambiguities that animate the film’s last act are less intriguing than the world it depicts on the way to an overwrought climax. Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The climax of the film involves a decision to punish or forgive. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

For “Tannhäuser” and “Dutchman,” Dudamel began with the overtures and ended with a choral climax from late in the opera, with a little choral something in between. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The letter explained that the map showed the likely location of a deep lane in which Household's hero – pursued across Europe by Nazi assassins – goes to ground, and where the novel reaches its extraordinary climax. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

The book climaxes with an exhilarating exploration of the City of London, which reluctantly acknowledges that its profit-graph spikes and plunges are probably modern Britain's best piece of large-scale urban design. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z

How many moments of climax can a single symphony have? Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The climax of tonight’s episode is a case in point. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: Breakthrough 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It was a smart edit — that story felt like a strained and doomed attempt to capture the gut-punch emotional climax of “Nanette” — and the omission suits the prickly puppet-master vibe of this new effort. Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’ Doubles Down on the Comedy of Contradiction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

In the climax of the film, the robots finally snap, though no specific reason is given for their deviation from programming. Rewatching robo-sex: what can be learned from previous Westworlds 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

When that moment arrives, in a sequence that it both a narrative coda and an emotional climax, the episode blasts to a gratifying end. The Best Episode of the New “Black Mirror” Is a Princess Tale Starring Miley Cyrus 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

More than , this climax to Christopher Nolan’s trilogy is unquestionably the year’s most eagerly anticipated movie event. Ice Age 4 Wins a Chilly Weekend Before The Dark Knight Rises 2012-07-15T21:16:03Z

Pappano continues to draw out some astonishing instrumental detail, but coordination came unstuck as Siegfried strode up to the Valkyries' Rock, taking the magic and fire out of one of the opera's climaxes. Siegfried – review 2012-09-30T16:15:01Z

After a monstrous climax midway through, the tumult ended; over a warm foundation of strings, she played a slow, yearning melody later taken up by the full orchestra in a rapturous surge. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, the New York Youth Symphony 2010-05-24T22:44:00Z

A taster of what these clubs were like comes at climax of the exhibition. 1980s throwback: clubland's charming impact on fashion examined at V&A 2013-07-08T15:13:42Z

The climax comes when Boyd hands her his pistol and tells her to kill him. 'Justified' Recap: Ava and Boyd Go A-Hunting 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the second, a siren crescendoed into a blaring signal whistle to herald the piano’s violent re-entry — a satisfying climax built from unusual means. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

And its climax, a single sentence that gasps on for 10-pages, sounds like a stunt that I’ve endured too many times before. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

In particular, she was struck by the dramatic climax: the debate over Thomas Jefferson’s fiery denunciation of the slave trade, which was ultimately cut from the Declaration, to secure unanimous approval. ‘1776’ in 2022: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Dual Reality 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Things rose, reluctantly but deliberately, to a writhing climax. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Facing the ensemble at a toy piano he plunked and patted sporadically, Mr. Distler raised a finger to summon conspiratorial hushes, and leapt, arms outspread, to urge climaxes. Music Review: Summertime Anarchy, but of the Guided Kind 2011-07-03T21:09:12Z

It climaxes, in fact, with a speech in which one character denounces another’s vicious behavior toward his friends as an expression of the contempt he feels for himself, merely for being who he is. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Its first movement, “A Sense of History,” gleamed with horns and harps; soft, swelling strings; and curlicue flutes, before tightening into a more pugilistic mode, rumbling to a climax and resolving into somber shimmers. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

David T. Little proved most successful at capturing Buxtehude’s blend of pain and ecstasy in his “To the Feet,” which rose to a dark climax underscored by clanging percussion. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Scoff, you may, at the moments reeking of Camembert, but the extended climax is a satisfying onslaught of madness and mayhem that should leave viewers suitably drenched in perspiration. Patrick - first look review 2013-07-28T22:29:06Z

Antithesis reaches its climax in the metaphor of the eighth line: "I was love's cradle once, now love's grave right." Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

If the song has one climax, it must have four. Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

In a way, the dramatic climax of “Hadrian” comes in the fraught opening scene, which takes place in 138 A.D., the last night of Hadrian’s life. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires It is a moment of glorious climax, and one of the most memorable in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z

The piece is, by intention, in one style and harmonic area for its entire length, but Miller and the musicians shaped the work effectively around several thrilling climax points. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Patrick W. Lord’s video projections give the climax a little extra scale as Don Juan gets what’s coming and goes to hell. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

If "Joker" really was that film, its popularity could have had a galvanizing effect on society as a whole, much as the Fleck character is able to inspire a mass movement in the film's climax. "Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy, and these better but snubbed films prove it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The film's climax is a mauling of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought by Union humans against Confederate vampires with silver weapons. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter slaves away at a rotten metaphor 2012-06-27T13:15:49Z

Viewers will vote off another of the remaining singers this week as "American Idol" counts down to its May climax. Miley Cyrus mentors "American Idol" singers 2010-03-22T18:54:00Z

At the climax of Mounsey’s half of the piece, I had the undeniable feeling that she was about to hurt us in some horrible way. The Need for Art That Hurts 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

It’s here that the plot mounts to a climax between the three male figures. Dating is hell for women: Nightmare exes, mansplainers and “The Boy’s” broken emo brat 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Curiously, though, it's the most strait-laced work here, Brahms E minor Sonata Op 38, that benefits most; textures are transparent, climaxes never become overpowering, giving the music a buoyancy that seems very fresh. Brahms; Debussy; Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas, etc – review 2012-11-29T22:40:01Z

But none of the episodes crescendo to a climax, and the narrative involving Charles' video game is the only one that exhibits any progression or consequence. 'Plato's Reality Machine' spins unsatisfying vignettes

From Transformers 3 to Pirates 4, Green Lantern to Thor, the Harry Potter climax to the Spider-Man reboot, almost any picture aiming to dominate the box office is now filmed stereoscopically. 3D technology has even sceptical directors embracing another dimension 2011-03-17T10:24:38Z

Unfortunately, the film’s climax is at odds with its buildup, a plodding narrative constructed around flimsy characters with even flimsier motivations. ‘Seance’ Review: Summoning Trouble with Lipstick and Latin 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

I can’t really imagine anything after this climax of “Fear of Music.” Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The climaxes of a couple beloved movie franchises garnered enough critical praise to rank high as well — namely, 2019's "Avengers: Endgame" and 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." The 50 best 3-hour-or-longer movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

Lead singer Matthew Healy inviting patrons on the lawn to fill the remaining amphitheater seats felt like an ’80s teen movie climax. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Trump is just reaching a climax of that, because he declares Europe clearly as an enemy, and so on.” Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, American Elections, and the Future of Europe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

It’s never mawkish, even at its understated climax. | 'Go for It!': Hip-Hop for Life 2011-05-13T22:43:02Z

At the climax of current single Tightrope, she channels Brown at the Apollo, wearing a cape, bent double and commanding her band "onemoreonemoreonemoretime". Janelle Mon?e 2010-07-02T20:45:00Z

Weirdness climaxes with a solo for the engrossing Mr. Singer, who could be a gladiator or an angsty toddler. John Jasperse Reaches Into the Audience in ‘Within Between’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

At the song’s climax she lifted her wig, and rose petals tumbled forth, as they did on the show — but this time they also rained from the ceiling — to deafening screams from the packed house. Is This the Golden Age of Drag? Yes. And No. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

In Shakespeare the Athenian wedding festivities reach their climax in the fabulously clumsy performance of the play within the play, “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z

Involving your boyfriend in pursuit of your elusive climax may eventually be the right route, but first I’d set about trying to change the dynamic in your relationship. I’ve faked every one of my orgasms over the past four years | Dear Mariella 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Little is revealed as the plot bounces from one climax to another, making any eventual bloodshed feel exhausting and unearned. ‘Torn Hearts’ Review: Sequins and Savagery 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

And the climax, a chanting Na’vi priestess of eye-popping dimensions sings and drums with a fluidity that relegates most previous animatronics to wind-up-toy status. There are already four-hour lines at Walt Disney World’s new ‘Avatar’-themed attraction. Does Pandora live up to the hype? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

For the climax of the show, the group performed it at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of The Queen. Malone takes Choir to the States 2012-07-23T13:44:39Z

At the dance’s wild climax, however, Ms. Petersen liberates herself from her double. It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The finale Wouarri begins with a simple insistent bass riff, and builds to a furious, exhilarating climax involving wild chanting, and wailing brass and guitar. Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa: Fangnawa Experience – review 2012-11-22T22:00:01Z

But Scott Derrickson, the director, and his special-effects crew really deliver the creepy goods here, providing an apt climax for as taut and credible a movie involving demonic possession as you’re likely to see. In ‘Deliver Us From Evil,’ Fighting Crime With Exorcism 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The triumphant climax is the Waltz of the Snowflakes. ArtsBeat: 'The Nutcracker' Chronicles: In ABT Version, A Master Shows His Hand 2010-12-31T19:39:34Z

It's just that even their barest numbers eventually – and it might take a minute, sometimes two – build and build, keyboards and strings being added until they swell to a pop climax. New band of the day – No 1,287: Boy 2012-06-13T14:15:00Z

Even The Incredibles 2 resolves its media crisis with an action climax. The Incredibles 2’s Screenslaver: the most controversial film villain ever? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

If you try to skip ahead to a supposedly dramatic climax, it won’t pay off. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The somber opening violin and clarinet lines unfolded to haunting effect before eventually reaching a fervent climax. Review: Yale Composers Showcase Their Works at New Music New Haven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It represents the climax of Richter’s quest for a creative response to the Holocaust, and a conclusion to decades of wrestling with the question of how much horror and brutality art can, or should, show. Gerhard Richter’s (Sort of) Gifts for a New Museum Go on Show 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Naturally, they're well aware that they're telling a tale whose grisly climax will be familiar to, and anxiously awaited by, virtually everyone in the audience. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:25Z

At their commercial climax, principal songwriter and aquiline blond Paul Weller decided he had had enough of the din. Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

At the film’s climax, Scottie tells Judy: “I have to go back into the past once more. Just once more. And then I’ll be free of the past.” ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Most songs were mountain climbs, starting soft and peaking at ecstatic climaxes. Feist electrifying Thursday at Moore Theatre 2011-11-18T18:42:04Z

I thought the climax of the movie was when I go into the room and give my last speech to him about suicide and I walk out. Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The protagonists are earnest rubes, the antagonists villainous caricatures, and as in Wolfe’s best-selling tomes, the unlikely subplots thread into a fiery, calamitous climax. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Antony and Constantine toured the streets and clubs, recruiting downtown characters to perform in their theatrical extravaganzas, which would always climax in a song by Antony. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z

A 70-minute work for chamber orchestra, “in vain” hovers in the air, rising to burning climaxes but always slithering free of them, chastened, and returning to hushed stasis. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z

Kylie redeems herself with a spirited chug through oldie Better the Devil You Know, before the sultry For the Lovers triggers an acrobatic, aquatic climax. Kylie Minogue ? review 2011-03-27T16:34:54Z

Only at the story’s climax do the masks come off and true selves stand revealed. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

On the plus side, "Singer always has a neat special effect, a well-timed gag or an action set piece around the corner, whipping up the action towards a symphonic climax." 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' compelling, if convoluted, early reviews say 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Then, in each of the three extravagantly orchestrated movements of Bjarnason’s “Emergence,” what emerges from this equally slow music is focus and climax. Sigur Rós rocks the L.A. Phil in the name of Reykjavík 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

I wanted to do a story that has a beginning, middle, and end, where each year is corollary to the five points of a novel, the introduction, rising action, complication, climax, and resolution. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The novel's last few hundred pages race past to reach a climax of nail-biting suspense, followed by a moving and delicately wrought denouement. Sarah Waters mixes crime and romantic strangers in 'Paying Guests' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mälkki brought out piquant touches, like some characterful wails of clarinet, and the tidal undercurrent of the low strings at certain moments even anticipated the grand “swan call” climax of the Sibelius. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The evening was typical of his performances: accomplished without being overly assertive; legible and restrained with an eye toward explosive climaxes. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Its epochally violent climax announced that Hollywood was ready to become a full-time munitions factory. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z

He is frozen in a soundless scream, his mind blown by this inconceivable, unforeseeable twist at the climax of the world’s greatest space opera. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z

Bousman creates an effective atmosphere, from the 1940s style of the apartments and urban newspaper’s offices to the technical wizardry of the ghosts and horrors that lurk in the haunted house at the climax. “Abattoir” director Darren Lynn Bousman serves up horror with noir ambitions 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

With the use of feverish fantasy scenes and claustrophobic camera shots, the film builds to a harrowing climax. Rock solid 2011-01-04T08:41:49Z

In what might be the video’s climax, a slow-motion, smeary animation of a figure in a fluorescent ghillie suit starts raving to deep, pulsing bass. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The composer asked his librettists for a choral climax to the original first act, a scene that does not feature in Melville's original. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z

Today suicide is seen primarily as a mental health issue; in classical drama it tends to be looked at more circumstantially, as the inevitable climax of an unfortunate story line. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

All at Once is particularly rousing, building from a simple guitar and vocal into a stirring climax powered by kettledrums, horns, strings, a children's choir and, you'd imagine, a kitchen sink. Click to Download: Radioplayer, DJ Alexei, Airborne Toxic Event 2011-04-06T15:30:00Z

But the influence Lady Gaga still can’t escape is Madonna; the climax of the chorus, the words “perfect illusion,” use the same melodic line as “keeping my baby” in Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.” The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Its members gave horrifying voice to mob mentality, complementing Clayton’s unraveling in Act III with a chilling climax of their own. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

As in the Berio, clangorous climaxes were well gauged and weighted. Review: The Curtis Symphony Orchestra Dives Into Mahler and More 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The film’s climax is the real water cooler moment here, and if you’re currently a thirtysomething, you might never look at your parents the same way again. Bah, Humbug: 12 Movies for the Holiday Blues 2013-12-20T18:09:17Z

The island in “The Changeling” is full of weird enchantments that erupt, in the novel’s harrowing and beautiful climax, into full-blown wizardry. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

McDermid is a prolific writer, and she skillfully weaves the plot threads together, culminating in a climax set atop the same rooftop in Oxford that Dorothy Sayers depicted in "Gaudy Night." Val McDermid's new whodunit rattles with recent Balkans history 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

And their nadir, Blender said, the worst musical moment from the worst band ever, is The Wraith: Shangri-La, the album that climaxes with Thy Unveiling. And God created controversy 2010-10-08T23:03:00Z

Then the question is, if the guy has adequate ability to have sex and he’s able to have a climax, then what does he gain by being a little bit firmer? Wait, men fake orgasms? 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z

The climax avoids easy judgments about who is right and who is wrong. Video Game Review: In the Video Game The Last of Us, Survival Favors the Man 2013-06-14T04:15:09Z

The climax is a stirring recording session of “Higgs Boson Blues,” one of the standout tracks from last year’s Bad Seeds album, “Push the Sky Away.” Nick Cave looks into his dark mind with ‘20,000 Days on Earth’ documentary

For although “Gun & Powder” builds efficiently to a climax in Act 1, the musical suffers from a fairly common problem in musical-theater development: an Act 2 that drains some of the evening’s estimable power. Review | Get a load of the exuberant new sister act: Mary and Martha Clarke, singing outlaw heroes of ‘Gun & Powder’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Over all, the performance felt long, , but there were plenty of exciting moments during the vast sweep of ironic waltzes and marches, frantic moto-perpetuo string sections, brass and percussion climaxes and sardonic humor. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

However, some viewers were upset that the concert coverage cut to around ten seconds of credits before the firework display at the climax of the event was finished. Queen's diamond jubilee: BBC bosses dodge criticism of TV coverage 2012-06-06T12:04:04Z

During the harrowing climax of “Fire” the music turned raw, brassy and blazing, with fractured rhythms, choral plaints that border on screeching, and chanted repetitions: “Burn like, burn like, burn.” Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Much like Peckinpah's film, the new "Straw Dogs" climaxes with an eruption of extreme violence, and the sequence is both cathartic and corrosive. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z

Both reach their climax in the final two episodes. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

He’s rigid with purpose, masking Eric’s interior doubts with a stiff exterior bravado that comes rapidly undone by the film’s climax. With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Powell saves his highest artistic achievement for the book’s climax. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Yet at the climax of the second play the audience was jarred out of involvement. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

In the “Pastoral” Symphony, the tempo transitions in the scherzo were clumsy, and the finale meandered with little sense of narrative; the climax at the end felt almost like an afterthought. Despite some standout playing, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra struggles at cohesion

An entire action sequence, the movie’s climax, ended up getting cut and reshot, pushing the release date from December of 2012 to this summer and costing tens of millions of dollars. Case Study: World War Z‘s Rough Road to the Big Screen 2013-05-03T16:36:38Z

There is a fantastic climax, a satisfying resolution. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The songs assemble themselves from deceptively simple openings — on “Mermaids,” a lone, gurgling guitar; on “We Real Cool,” a single-note bass rumble — that evolve into rich climaxes full of string and keyboard flourishes. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z

Although Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of David Mitchell’s latest novel, “Utopia Avenue,” featured a thoughtful analysis of the “Mitchellverse,” I was disappointed that you chose to reveal his latest book’s finale and detail its climax. On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The drum roll of publicity that sounded on the red carpet at Cannes’ Grand Palais is meant to reach its climax on the red carpet next Oscar night. Rust and Bone: Marion Cotillard and Oscar Mania 2012-11-23T10:40:31Z

Owen Chase gave Melville his climax: As Essex’s boats were harpooning female sperm whales, a huge male, around 85 feet, rushed and holed the 88-foot ship, twice. Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

The show climaxes with her breakthrough album Tapestry, with its iconic feminist-era hits like “It’s Too Late” and “You’ve Got a Friend.” Carol King Joins the Broadway Cabaret with Beautiful 2014-01-16T18:47:13Z

Tom Courtenay gives a great performance in this gritty Tony Richardson film which has one of the most uncompromising climaxes to any sports film ever. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z

The climax came with the men having to run up three flights of stairs to work out the combination for the lock. TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011-08-15T21:00:02Z

Lush, lurid climaxes are plentiful, but a brass undercurrent, with special credit to devious trombone glissandi, offers the aural impression of sand shifting underfoot. 'Florencia en el Amazonas' a culture clash solved by orchestra 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The music unfolds with dramatic tension, textural clarity and powerful, though never disproportionate, climaxes. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

All in all, it's a climax to the evening that seems to up-end the conventional wisdom that reformed bands are going through the motions, doing it for the bucks. Pulp storm Reading festival 2011 2011-08-28T11:37:21Z

Here I Stand managed to mix the feel of something from near the climax of Act I of a decent musical, with a touch of Queen. Eurovision 2021: follow all the action from Rotterdam – live 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Cumulatively, the photographs feel a little less claustrophobic than McEwan’s taut narrative, in which you sense everything always building to the terrible climax. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

And the thrilling, sorrowful, dramatic climax of Hawaii's story - the disintegration of the kingdom - is relegated to little more than an addendum. Vowell takes on Hawaii's history but misses mark 2011-03-22T17:08:11Z

Otherwise, much of the piece seemed like barely comprehensible cacophony, with the tubular bells at the climax painfully loud in the library’s small auditorium. Opener of Library of Congress’s concert series is heard, a bit too loudly 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

From there, the writer-veterans go on to shape a collaborative poem they then perform at the climax of the documentary, We Are Not Done Yet. 'Guilt was the biggest injury': how veterans are using poetry to heal 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Fowler returns in “Socrates” to play Satie’s cantata “Socrate,” which sets three passages from Plato, climaxing in the death of Socrates. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

The viscerally gross and emotionally complex climax is kicked off when her daughter finds the final one that hits her with a devastating impact: “I am loved.” The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

At the movie's climax, Happy Slappy, in full costume, fights against Josh in court for custody of Buddy. 10 Most Notable – and Often Creepy – Clowns in Pop Culture 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The plagues of Egypt are invoked for the third act; so, for a boxes-toppling climax, is the Tower of Babel. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The 11 o’clock number, “Twelve Days to Christmas,” sung by the main characters and the ensemble, is full and frantic onstage, pushing the action of the show to its climax. Broadway Comes to a Laptop Near You 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

A three-month search commenced, which climaxed in Hamer and his posse gunning down Barrow, Bonnie Parker and their accomplices on a deserted road in Louisiana. Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson on tail of Bonnie and Clyde spin-off 2013-04-11T10:56:26Z

This climaxes to a smoldering evil made more sinister by white men picnicking with guests and waltzing to a Black man's agonized wails as he's subjected to unimaginable anguish. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

There are perhaps too many set-piece arias and melodramatic ensembles that crest to sweeping climaxes. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z

You can read about the . . . well, the climax of the story here. Why is everyone so horny for kitchen slang? 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

He conducted from memory with complete command, showing a canny sense of pacing and climax and playing the bombast to the full. Music Review: Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana’ by Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2012-06-03T22:14:06Z

Tuesday’s performance, though not flawless, offered velvety string playing, urgency, brassy climaxes galore and alluring tenderness during ruminative passages. Review: Juilliard Orchestra, Grabbing the ‘Ring’ Cycle 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

They do go the full monty, stripping off completely at the climax of the play - but clever lighting spares the actors' blushes. Full Monty play gets West End run 2013-04-26T11:03:54Z

How great his poetry and music were in the 1962–1966 period can be understood by the fact that Dylan himself was never able to approach his climax, despite half a century of relentlessly trying. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

With full, rounded tones, she repeatedly poured out blazing high notes to cut through the tumultuous climaxes of Strauss' orchestration, then lightened her voice to a lovely, delicate filigree for the quieter moments. Nina Stemme triumphs in `Salome' at Carnegie 2012-05-25T14:04:09Z

And what if you ruined the climax of that 3 a.m. Social Q?s: Misinterpreted 2012-02-02T22:07:31Z

Technically, it’s a dazzling, cinematic climax played out in quick-cut, rotating points of view. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

The book's climax is an exciting confrontation in a network of tunnels connecting Passy's hidden aboveground reservoirs. 'Murder in Passy': Cara Black investigates death in a wealthy French enclave 2011-03-17T19:57:04Z

The climax is an intense pas de deux of reciprocal sensuality: a dream within a dream. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The return of Tom and Huckleberry Finn from their pirate expedition in time to interrupt their own funeral is the climax of Act I, the nocturnal graveyard killing of the Doctor that of Act II. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

As Miranda stands amazed at the emergence of a whole tribe of these exotic humans at the play’s climax — “O brave new world, that has such people in ’t!” Theater Review | 'The Tempest': Air Sprite, Feral Creature, Rapturous Love and Other Sorcery 2010-02-26T03:15:00Z

The only issue I have is that it was a bit of a lazy arrangement where the climax was quite limp. "American Idol" recap: Take a hike, Casey 2010-05-19T13:01:00Z

Ms. Soper’s scope broadening into the galactic, “Metaphysics” takes on change and permanence, with the work reaching a serene climax at the promise of a “state of supreme contemplation.” Review: ‘Ipsa Dixit’ Makes an Unlikely Opera Out of Aristotle 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

The Melvillian showdown between this extraordinary man and his equally extraordinary quarry forms the climax of “Stronghold,” Tucker Malarkey’s finely observed profile of Rahr and his life’s work. The Man Who Tried to Catch the 100-Pound Salmon 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Even towards the climax, her signature song, Crazy In Love, was dispensed with in under a minute before giving way to another musical interlude. Jay-Z joins Beyonce show in London 2014-03-01T01:07:50Z

A gathering this week of Hollywood stars, studio bosses and cinema owners will climax with “big screen achievement awards”, but the focus will probably not be on achievements or awards – or even the big screen. Hollywood gathering puts focus on Sean Parker's home cinema proposal 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

In his masterpiece "East of Eden," the story of a profoundly unhappy family reaches its terrible climax at a Thanksgiving gathering. 7 fictional Thanksgivings to fill your holiday craving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

However, you may be able to climax by doing some exercises. I never have an orgasm and have been faking it for 10 years 2011-02-11T09:13:00Z

It’s probably no coincidence, then, that the viewer can’t tell whether the movie’s reluctance to serve up a rousing climax is the result of poor planning, or some kind of declaration of principles. Review: In ‘Jane Got a Gun,’ Clear Skies, Followed by a Hail of Bullets 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

But by the time the show reached its climax of Latex-look pants trailing into ribbons at the calf, this power woman deserved a new wardrobe. Special Report: Fashion: Mugler and Gareth Pugh: Don?t Forget The Clothes! 2011-09-29T17:22:14Z

The folk traditions he shows — the climax of “Ghost Town” is a ritual, torch-lighted chasing away of demons — seem at once durable and vulnerable, perched between a quickly receding past and an unknowable future. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z

The warmth, flexibility, and apparently inexhaustible power of her voice easily rode even the larger orchestral climaxes, and enveloped us all with its loveliness — most definitely, this is a singer with a big future. Opera review: Young artists offer seductive 'Ariadne' 2010-04-02T20:23:00Z

Her singing was variable in the extreme, with some soft, meltingly lovely parlando phrases giving way to strident, insecurely pitched climaxes that quavered on wiry threads of sound. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z

But in terms of these larger plotlines, we follow them through their many machinations and, as in real life, many lead to a climax, while many others lead to frustration or an underwhelming resolution. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

The second movement, Russian Chimes, rises to a brilliant climax of tintinnabulation, referencing the sound of bells beloved of Russian composers from Mussorgsky to Rachmaninov. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2010-11-22T22:45:00Z

The experience he produced breaks free from traditional Hollywood narrative, dispensing with backstory and character development, to focus on what would be, in a traditional film, the climax of the story. Review | It takes only 6 minutes to be fully convinced of the immense power of virtual reality 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Now all I have to do is turn that into three acts with an intention, obstacle, exposition, inciting action, reversal, climax and denouement and make it funny and emotional and I’ll be in business. ArtsBeat: That's News to Him: Aaron Sorkin on 'The Newsroom' and His Steve Jobs Screenplay 2012-06-07T13:00:24Z

In the solo climaxes that conclude the show’s two acts, Ms. Staunton lets loose with the full power of years of unsatisfied longing. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

As the show progressed toward the finale, he explained, the looks would climax in a performative fashion, becoming more and more decadent, with dramatic evening gowns encrusted with jewels. A Closer Look at Schiaparelli’s Surrealist Couture Jewelry 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

At the Armory, he found operatic climaxes in most songs — his high notes were strong, shattering, indefatigable. Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, the film’s emotional climax comes as Mr. Homsi himself reaches Istanbul, released from captivity and torture by the Islamic State. In ‘Our Terrible Country,’ Mohammad Ali Atassi Explores the Syrian Revolt 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The highly anticipated Battle of Winterfell “Game of Thrones” episode did not disappoint when it came to its shocking climax. "Game of Thrones" shocker: Maisie Williams and Kit Harington react to that Night King twist 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

“In many ways Trump symbolized the climax of the Republican civil war and the end of the Republican civil war,” he argues. How Did We Get From Compassionate Conservatism to the Party of Trump? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

It feels as if half of the town took a time machine to 21st century Charming to slum it in Sons of Anarchy, reminding us of that abject absence of climax. Deadwood is the best drama HBO has ever made – it must be revived 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Why not render one section in ellipses or skip the climax altogether? A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Here the tense dramatic climax toward which the play moves is resolved with an abruptness that pulls us up short. Theater Review: August Wilson’s ‘Piano Lesson’ at Signature Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z

Mary, the film’s protagonist, and Elizabeth, the most prominent supporting character, only meet that one time, in a powerful and entirely fictional scene that takes place at the climax. How Margot Robbie transformed into Queen Elizabeth I for ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The climax comes when Henreid hangs the half-naked Lancaster by his feet and laces his back with a riding crop: “Now, Mr. Davis, will you tell us where the diamonds are?” Video: Hard Work of Comedy and Straight-Shooting 2011-04-16T02:23:01Z

Women were found to climax more consistently with a long-term partner, while men claimed to plateau with a stable partner. exclusive: blockbuster scientific study proves one-night stands suck 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Slowed down by its fussy class geography and wheezing plot-motor, the novel builds into a vividly melodramatic climax with these kids at its heart. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z

Susan Sontag, writing about Leiris’s “Manhood,” noted that the book was “formless,” “provides no consummation or climax,” and is “sometimes boring.” Megan Boyle’s “Liveblog” and the Limits of Autofiction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

It provided a sensational climax to the evening. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z

"Juno" starts out with a simple beat, moves to a naked bass line, then veers into swinging jazz piano, building to a climax, then slides back down the mountain into tranceland. Kanye, Jay-Z head the list of new CDs 2011-08-22T22:12:30Z

This facet of the book reaches a riveting climax toward the end, when Arnold describes an encounter with his birth family that almost didn’t happen. A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Ellis's own romantic career is resolved a little too easily and the movie's climax is very melodramatic, but Mud is an engaging and good-looking picture with two bright leading performances from Sheridan and Lofland. Cannes 2012: Mud – review 2012-05-26T16:58:05Z

But a running debate about whether the ends justify the means in police work never ignites, and the movie climaxes ignobly with a plot point involving a machine that injects drugs into coffee. ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

A man died of his wounds after running into the final bonfire during the climax of the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert Saturday the Associated Press reports. Man dies after jumping into bonfire at Burning Man festival 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The news, announced in an emailed statement, quickly spread and has dominated the May 11-22 event as it reaches its climax. Witch hunt or wise move? Cannes ponders expulsion 2011-05-19T17:31:31Z

Mr. Crutchfield led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a bristling performance that increased in urgency throughout, reaching a fiery climax at the work’s chilling conclusion. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

He also takes the license allowed of a creative documentarian, using heightened editing and dramatic music to build to the furious climax of the Chicago Police Department’s televised beating of protesters. The Chicago 7 Trial Onscreen: An Interpretation for Every Era 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

I can get very turned on but never climax, either with my partner or by myself. I never have an orgasm and have been faking it for 10 years 2011-02-11T09:13:00Z

The title, the tangled, sinewy writing for the two soloists and the depiction of a battle that forms its climax, might all suggest connections with the ritual landscapes of Birtwistle. Prom 34: BBCNOW/Roth ? review 2011-08-10T09:56:51Z

Now he has created an operatic version of Philip Pullman's novel, which climaxes in an explosive competition to determine who is the finest firework-maker in the land. The Firework-Maker's Daughter – review 2013-03-24T18:11:00Z

The chatty comedy builds to a spectacular sci-fi climax that, despite its charmingly lo-fi production values, delivers a transcendent emotional wallop. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

I squirmed in recognition during every excruciating second of Lady Bird’s battles and reconciliations with her mother, but the film’s most joyous moment is the climax of its central love story. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The climax of the festival was the staging of "The Ruse of Medusa," Satie's surreal farce with piano interludes called monkey dances, which featured, of course, Cunningham. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

In a lurid climax, Myrtle is run over by a car driven by Daisy. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

For the big picture, Morlot tautened the massive climax at the beginning of the recapitulation. At Seattle Symphony, cosmic radiation from Beethoven and Messiaen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

As a superannuated karaoke session, the evening's climax was harmless fun – but it was the stupendous documentary that had preceded it that sent the crowd buzzing into the night. The Art of Rap – review 2012-07-20T12:17:11Z

That device cheapened the play, turning it into a glorified pep rally, but it built to a satisfying climax: the election of a black president. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z

Duchovny doesn’t do much more than raise questions about these issues as the story speeds to its fittingly biblical climax. Review | David Duchovny wants to be taken seriously as a novelist. His new book makes a good case. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The show’s collective climax — predictably set to “My Way” and “New York, New York” — does not find much fresh dance fodder in these chestnuts. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z

As always in the Gamache series, the main narrative branches into more complicated patterns until all questions are resolved in a spectacular climax that cross cuts between story lines. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The problem of translation — who speaks for whom and why — echoes through “Expedition Content,” which builds to a shattering climax during a long, boozy revel in which the expedition men joke and laugh. ‘Expedition Content’ Review: Anthropological Maneuvers in the Dark 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

You might expect this sequence to be the play’s exultant climax. Review: Urban Nightmares as Puppets in ‘The Paper Hat Game’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

Megaton prefers hand-to-hand combat to the usual gunplay; at the climax, the film freezes in its tracks for an odd interlude of Bryan and a villain in Greco-Roman wrestling. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z

It has a climax that looks set to underwhelm, until it ends up satisfying in a way you had not expected. Why Ford v Ferrari should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Arriving as the drama of the Trump years was reaching its climax, the pandemic “was almost like the strange sauce on top of everything else”, says Van Sant. Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The score, at once predictable in the galloping rhythms and eddying climaxes and inventively unexpected in the use of solo instruments, is dazzlingly effective and wholly unmemorable. Robert le diable; Basca awards; Queen's Medal for Music – review 2012-12-09T00:07:19Z

The story reaches its climax as Ewa, riven with guilt and a Catholic fear of hell, becomes crucified on her own weird love-triangle. Cannes 2013: The Immigrant 2013-05-24T11:28:37Z

The denouement is visible from a distance; a shame if you recall how expertly Carpenter unleashed the powerful climaxes of The Thing et al. John Carpenter's The Ward ? review 2011-01-20T22:40:02Z

"But I saw them as arias, to punctuate the emotional climaxes of the characters." Trailer trash 2012-07-28T23:06:07Z

At this point, however, she doesn't quite have the visceral power or cutting edge required to soar above the heavily orchestrated climaxes that Puccini wrote for his heroine. Soprano Martinez tries out "Butterfly" wings 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

The conductor Roderick Cox spoke movingly of his program a few nights later, though the distinctive atmosphere of Barber’s “Knoxville” and Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” Suite suffered from his unshaped orchestral climaxes. At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

So he became a maker and breaker of alibis when murder brought a climax to Jonathan Royal’s house party: a house party whose hostilities made its chief charm for the host’s wry sense of fun. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The play’s climax arrives with the same stealthy tread as the rest of the scant action. | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z

It's a professional performance, albeit one building towards a predetermined climax. Europe – review 2012-11-23T18:55:07Z

The sudden awareness of God's presence at the climax of the Rückert-Lieder was breathtakingly done. Skovhus/Vladar ? review 2011-08-15T17:45:01Z

The last line brings the story-so-far to its climax: the third driver not only smiles at the woman boarding his bus, but bids her welcome. Poem of the week: The bus to Ramallah by Jasmine Donahaye 2011-02-14T11:52:43Z

The climax is cathartic and transcendent enough to smooth over any flaws along the way. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Even at the climax, when the actors talk of the sackings and privations they have endured, they sing a folk song. Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker – review 2012-06-17T17:04:01Z

At the song’s fortissimo climax—the moment of the silent swan’s sound, the woman’s confession—Bullock’s timbre took on a miraculous hue, merging with the color of the pianist Renate Rohlfing’s harmony. The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Each of the character's missions and challenges are brought to tidy conclusions and wind up contributing to the climax in significant ways. "The Rise of Skywalker" fixes the sins of "The Last Jedi" 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

This tropical tour builds to a whopper of a climax. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

If she reaches a climax, it coincides with my own. My life in sex: ‘For me, it’s like enjoying the same meal every day’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

"The slower things go, the more you delay the climax," Baker continued. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

And the point of a slowly built drama is that it must eventually reach a frantic, breathless climax, no? Perspective | While you were watching summer’s biggest TV show, you missed summer’s best TV show 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

She particularly excels in bringing a solo to a climax, only to show — as applause erupts — that this is a transition to some new and further drama. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z

But his theatrics got the better of him at the climax of a buzzing version of Seven Nation Army. 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

He decided right then to bring Newton’s story to a wide audience, and would do so with a musical, using “Amazing Grace” itself as both a climax and a title. ‘Amazing Grace,’ a Faith-Based Musical, Aims at Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Female climax – in humans and, if it exists, in animals – has been viewed by many evolutionary psychologists as a biologically meaningless by-product with no effect on reproduction. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z

It all builds to a climax that’s entirely satisfying and not particularly overwhelming. Review: In ‘Cars 3,’ Lightning McQueen Faces an Existential Crisis 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

At the opera’s climax, the influence of Gandhi’s nonviolent protest on the work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is rendered explicit with slow-motion, hushed profundity. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

And whether it was the near-ambient “Color Song” or her big hit — which she used to bring the show to a climax — Rogers sang with an assurance that many artists twice her age haven’t achieved. Review | Maggie Rogers moves past her Pharrell moment 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Still, his tendency to drive climaxes to the maximum marred the reading. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The climax is driven from a quarter that won’t surprise McPherson fans. McPherson keeps the faith in Irish drama ‘Night Alive’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The show’s signature song came at the climax of the first season, when Rebecca realized that Josh was on to her. Losing Her Mind: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ends with Hope 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The plot moves swiftly to a shattering climax that throws notions of vengeance and atonement into sharp relief. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

The Admiral Bar, Waterloo Street, Sat Wonderland, Bristol Tonight sees the climax of Bristol's rejuvenated Pride Week, when two of the city's biggest LGBT-friendly nights present a four-roomed spectacular. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

Teller: I think it's awesome the film ends with a climax. Whiplash stars drum up Oscar hopes 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

These light standards, heavy on fanfares and loud climaxes, offer a passing thrill of recognition, but they don’t stimulate. New York Philharmonic Summertime Classics Series Opens 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But upon reaching its climax, the movie fails to fulfill. ‘Last Summer’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

But as Oscar becomes immersed in the life of a security guard, Ellis slowly introduces sly elements of the crime thriller that will bring the proceedings to a completely unexpected climax. Sundance film festival 2013: Metro Manila – first look review 2013-01-25T12:56:14Z

The diametrical opposite, Julia Wolfe’s “Early That Summer,” built up tension through a driving stream of notes, although the expected climaxes never materialized. JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

The buzz: "A mix of folk-electronica with a moody vocal that builds to a stunning climax." New band of the day: Fyfe (No 1,464) 2013-03-04T16:34:00Z

Carnival 2011 celebrations climax on Tuesday 8 March with the parade of bands. Soca ball: the stars of the Trinidad and Tobago carnival 2011-03-08T11:18:00Z

At the climax of the play's revelatory scene, Suchet stands hunched, with his back to the audience, in a grotesquely humiliated stance reminiscent of a man before a firing squad. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

The climax is notably sceptical about the possibility of truth and reconciliation. Belfast-set thriller The Fall joins the few dramas to tackle the Troubles 2013-05-14T13:23:58Z

The mad God of Walford originally wanted the zany saga to reach a festive climax next Christmas Day, typically. EastEnders is not real 2011-01-10T00:05:03Z

It too was slow and subdued, but the climax had majestic power. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Carolina Performing Arts' Rite of Spring at 100, a season-long celebration of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev's epochal ballet, which had its premiere in Paris in May 1913, reached an early climax. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z

Why close out such a lighthearted movie by reshaping such a feel-great concert into such a serious Hollywood climax? Perspective | Here’s the problem with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (and every musical biopic ever made) 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

And while the play reaches a pretty spectacular climax, it then insists on tottering on for 15 minutes more. Genet Interpreted Anew in ‘The Maids’ The Maids’ 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

I arrived just after 11 in the morning and left before 1pm, so I went through the midday climax of emotions: I expected, and got, Gary Cooper in High Noon. Christian Marclay's The Clock: a masterpiece of our times 2011-04-07T12:05:43Z

The climaxes, and the sense of motion, are still there, and he knows how to steer a narrative arc with the best of them. Music of our time: Washington Chorus offers monumental Glass symphony 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Seafair activities climax in a big way this week, with Kids Zone inflatable rides, food vendors, entertainment, beer gardens, the Boeing Air Show featuring the Patriots Jet Team — oh, yes, there’s also hydroplane racing. A&E highlights: Seafair finale, music and more 2013-07-24T22:01:22Z

By the time her story thread is played out, “Leading Men” has acquired a few too many leads and a superfluous climax or two. Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

But as Jacy dithers and stalls in the July heat, so does the story, even as it wends toward the feverish, improbable rush of its climax. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The number drops to two if I only count “successful” forays into the erotic, where at least one partner actually reaches climax. My husband won’t sleep with me 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

The mock grudge between them escalated and Silverman’s supposed cuckolding was the uproarious climax. Oscars 2017: Jimmy Kimmel the safe choice for host but sparks unlikely to fly 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The apocalyptic climax of the first movement’s development section was incoherent as he let the brass swamp the strings. This season, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays it safe, almost to a fault 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

The character’s motivations are barely sketched as the plot moves toward a twisty climax. A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Kultaselle, a set of fiery variations on a Finnish folksong by Busoni, brought some fierce responses around a muted yet effective climax. Isserlis/Hough ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:31Z

He engineered a real sense of arrival at the climax of the first movement, when all the sections of the orchestra suddenly seemed to be pulled into focus together. LSO/Bychkov/Kavakos – review 2012-11-26T13:36:10Z

The episode kicks off a week that climaxes on Thursday, the soap's 50th birthday, with a live episode and a 50 top-clips compilation. Coronation Street blasts into the future on its 50th birthday 2010-12-06T07:00:00Z

But in the season finale’s bloody and morally harrowing climax, “The Last of Us” fully embraced its video-game roots — and by doing so, became powerful TV. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

He was still crouching nearly to the floor when he wanted the volume softer, and reaching toward the ceiling to summon thunderous climaxes. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

But it’s the climax of this wonderfully dramatic conjunction of language and dance. Dance Review: Poetry in Motion by Anne Carson and Rashaun Mitchell 2010-07-21T22:15:00Z

I have never seen the climax staged with such matter-of-fact degradation. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z

Tivoli Towers, Crown Heights, Brooklyn The location manager, Samson Jacobson, said that for the film’s climax, Benny sent him pictures of “monstrous, brutalist, ‘Blade Runner’-type towers.” Is the Next Great New York Crime Movie Set in Flushing? 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Having sex with his wife, Todd approaches his climax chanting, “I’m not alone, I’m not alone.” Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z

Howling desert winds set the tone of a high school hallway smackdown; a few scenes later, a bedroom fist fight climaxes with a clatter of bells, thunderclaps and an eagle screech. ‘Polite Society’ Review: Pride and Plenty of Fists 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the finale is a denouement and sometimes it’s the climax. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses 'The Phantom' 2012-06-11T18:58:07Z

And the ending, which just seemed to fade into nothingness after building up to what, in my mind, should have been a terrific climax, a battle to end all battles. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 22: The Eyes of the Dragon 2013-06-20T15:00:35Z

Yes, Abbado should play the rest of the symphony too, but hearing him and this orchestra build up the nine-note dissonance at the climax of the Adagio was simultaneously terrifying and seductive. Lucerne festival goes Lupu for Brahms 2011-08-15T16:19:09Z

Her voice was at its most commanding throughout “Cool for the Summer,” a year-old ode to same-sex kissing, and during the climax of “Without a Fight,” a surprise duet with country star Brad Paisley. Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, DNCE and the rise of the mid-level pop star 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s the climax of this film, but really Ms. Flowers’s career is just beginning. Review: ‘Hearing Is Believing’ Documents a Rare Talent 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

It's transported me back to the time I was 11 and hyperventilated with excitement during the climax of the third film at the Wimbledon Odeon. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z

One by one, he calls the guilty parties to justice in a cross-cutting sequence that recalls the famous climax of “The Godfather.” 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell the Serpent Makes an Appearance 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

The series builds to that climax in an almost casual way, fleshing out some characters and plotlines but leaving others thin. Review: In Showtime’s ‘Guerrilla,’ Radicalism Without the Mythology 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The climax of this is this silhouette of the woman. Magic and mysteries woven into "The Wheel of Time" main titles 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

That she prosecutes sexual assault cases in court adds synthetic emotional fuel to the play’s highest-stakes climax, which happens offstage to people we never meet. Review: In ‘Bees & Honey,’ Love Is Both Sweet and Sticky 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

After all this lead-up, the ripping and gnashing feel like feral themes that have at long last reached their long-withheld climax. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

At the climax, belief and disbelief are painfully tested. Black Death 2010-06-13T14:20:00Z

After the Largo in the Sonata No. 50 in D, to which he brings an almost Romantic moodiness, the album’s climax is the beautiful Sonata No. 19 in E minor. Classical Recordings: HAYDN: PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 2 2011-06-10T14:26:16Z

Named for the trippiest movie of 1968, the 2001 Odyssey features a light show — strobes, moving beams and a translucent checkerboard dance floor lighted from below — nearly as cosmic as the climax of “Close Encounters.” ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at 40: You Should Still Be Dancing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Only at the climax does it escalate into martial majesty. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

That scene is one of the most horrifying in opera, a grand climax in a work that, when performed at this level, makes any onerous safety protocol worthwhile. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

As the night draws to a climax, My Kind of Love features a particularly powerful set of vocal lifts that stay on the right side of excess. Emeli Sandé – review 2013-04-13T23:07:42Z

The rescheduling to a post-watershed time slot was not because of content as the storyline reaches its climax, it said. ITV moves Coronation Street to maximise Britain's Got Talent boost 2010-05-19T11:04:00Z

The 80s turned out to be both the climax and the anticlimax of the cold war – a political conclusion that miraculously sidestepped nuclear war. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z

This special, which at its climax finds its star hunched in a nearly fetal posture, hits jarring notes that have never been matched in this form. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

It also provides an answer in the enthralling, wordless climax, a ballet that depicts, with moving clarity, what another, much-celebrated musical would call the circle of life. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ a Lyrical Meditation on Life, Death and Immortality 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

But in Penn’s depiction, McCandless’s death becomes a traditional dramatic climax in the film’s closing minutes: he meets his demise with a beatific smile across his face, at peace at last. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The way it folded in on itself at the climax – with Larry David doing an impersonation of Jason Alexander playing George Costanza, a character who was based on Larry David – was breathtaking. A Seinfeld revival? Here's what they need to do to get it right 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The best productions should leave the audience as shattered as the unicorn that gets toppled from its perch at the play’s devastating climax. Review: Amy Adams in a Too-Fragile ‘Glass Menagerie’ 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

At the climax, when the elephants appear, they don’t follow the Tarzan script and bow to Mowgli. Is The Jungle Book's Mowgli a superhero? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

These hearings, in an era of social-media cacophony, cable-news argument and fixed political camps, were never likely to build to a cinematic climax that would unite the public in outrage. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

At that orchestral climax, Kentridge crowds the stage with towering, obvious and distracting war imagery that overstates the effect. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

The festival, climaxing with the special meal—the Passover seder, as it came to be called—was not simply celebrated out of antiquarian interests. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z

Wilson’s plot hinges on a simple bucket of nails stolen from a mill, yet it climaxes in the slave trade’s brutal ocean crossings as Ester conjures something she calls the “city of bones.” Review | August Wilson’s titanic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ sets sail at Round House 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The plot, climaxing in a New York Times review that's the journalistic equivalent of an act of terrorism, drags on. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

What’s surprising — agreeably — is that the work’s climax is a series of brilliant solos. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z

Still, the general agreement is on delayed gratification — absorbing the rhythms, textures and climaxes, and holding off erupting into loud, vociferous pleasure until the end. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

She simulated climax so many times that the BBC kept count: 23, in 17 minutes. Disco Queen Donna Summer endured after era faded 2012-05-18T10:35:09Z

Although its temperature remains fairly sedate, “The Healing” rises to a quiet emotional climax with the unexpected arrival of Joan herself. Review: Friends Reunite for a Funeral, and Brutal Honesty, in ‘The Healing’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Where “Carmelites” is polished and elegant, this “Dutchman” is hokey, with its primary-color palette, its awkwardly stylized movements for the chorus, and its unfortunate handling of the opera’s obvious climaxes. At WNO, strong ‘Dutchman’ cast makes up for production’s deficits 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

"If Mr Darwin is right in his theory," the accompanying piece asks, "has not the climax of evolution been reached and are we not heading down the hill toward the aboriginal starting point again?" Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z

Adams described that opening, which swells to a swell climax, as “a vector pointing heavenward” — and that is what happened in a special way at the Bowl. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Hirai wants to tone down the gory climax, in a movie full of outlandishly gory sight gags. Spending Christmas Eve with 'The Interview,' and all its trappings 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

On my way back to Bend I took a detour and headed down some winding country lanes to 170-acre Eagle Fern Park, where the movie’s climax unfolds. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Though beaming, Dudamel instinctively began to shape the song’s climax with his arms. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

This year's ninth series climax was also the lowest audience for an Apprentice final since it was first screened on BBC1 in 2006. The Apprentice final: fewer than 6 million viewers watch Leah Totton win 2013-07-18T10:31:34Z

At the film's climax, our hero's fate remains unclear. Clip joint: dead or alive? 2012-11-21T16:38:02Z

Occasionally, and perhaps in an effort to avoid melodrama, the story feints away from emotional climaxes by leaping great expanses of time, which deflates some of the novel’s tension. Review | Eman Quotah’s engrossing debut, ‘Bride of the Sea,’ offers Americans a nuanced view of the Saudi Kingdom 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

And this film contains the titanic battle between Luke and Darth Vader, climaxing in one of the most shatteringly Freudian moments in pop culture history, the much misquoted line: “No, I am your father.” Every Star Wars film – ranked! 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

All this is the build up to the exciting climax: at 10pm a squad of abseilers, their bodies outlined with lights, slowly descend the falls in the dark. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe you remember the patriotic climax of “Independence Day” in 1996. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: With These Spaceships, I Thee Invade. Again. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

You keep expecting the song, usually just played with piano and the occasional harmonica, to reach a dramatic climax, but instead it fades away. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

Generous time is devoted to the sad truth of comprised negotiations and ethical impasses, yet when the climax finally appears, the contrast in pace makes it seem odd, even abrupt. Film review: Storm 2010-03-25T23:45:00Z

Inspired by Hogarth's morality tale in eight paintings, the opera has no organic unfolding or reassuring emotional climax. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Some of Nelsons's tempi were dangerously slow, but other sections fizzed with energy, the huge dramatic spans of each act were effortlessly sustained, and the dramatic climaxes vividly realised. Lohengrin 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z

But though this group keeps winning awards in Germany, it relegates improvising to brief diversions from general chord-hammering, groove-pursuing, thundering climaxes too often. Tingvall Trio: Vagen – review 2012-07-19T21:21:01Z

We are given interludes, aftermaths, climaxes without buildups. , in this sense, is a sort of epic in graceful shorthand. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-05-26T13:00:01Z

Where “Nightingale” differs is in a less melodramatic climax, easier conversational flow and radically altered path to the same poignant conclusion. What the heart desires in Tennessee Williams' 'Eccentricities of a Nightingale' in Venice 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The rehearsal hit a climax on “Lala Belu,” which the band took at a quickened pace, as if trying to funnel some extra energy into the empty basement. An African Funk Pioneer Gets a Second Chance on a Global Stage 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

But then, as Christian Grey knows, the tease heightens the climax. Fifty Shades of Grey: first film image appears, and it's not very sexy 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Rock can convey ennui just as effectively, too: think of the climax to The Graduate and the scene on the bus where Dustin Hoffman finally ends up with Katherine Ross. Score draws 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

At the climax of the episode, she staunchly confronts both incarnations of the Darkness. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The number climaxes when the two break from their perfectly choreographed moves and hold each other's hands and spin around and around. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

I also enjoyed watching the young cast, even when they had to enact horror-film tropes like the guy who leaves his girl alone near the climax. A Nightmare on Elm Street Review: Freddy's Not Dead Yet 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z

Valentines appeared for hundreds of years, but it was the Victorians, those same folks who “invented” Christmas, who took the holiday of romantic cards to its commercial climax. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The first in any Austen adaptation, it’s an unfulfilling climax of things not going as planned. The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s narrated by a woman called Cass, and includes female climax. Porn without the visuals: I tried audio erotica – would it turn me on? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The play’s end deliberately inverts the famous bloody climax of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” By chance, meeting the disgraced ‘M. Butterfly’ diplomat whose lover misled him 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

So it was with “Gemma di Vergy,” which like a number of the composer’s other operas has a tragic heroine at its center and climaxes in a shattering closing scene. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z

The assault was the climax of two months of tension and fighting in Bangkok that left about 90 people dead and thousands wounded, a vast majority of them protesters. A Thai Director Earns Acclaim Abroad and Ambivalence at Home 2010-09-14T03:00:00Z

Britten's Variations gave the concert its brilliant climax, yet also served to reaffirm, in retrospect, the affinities explored by Beamish in hers. Academy of St Martin in the Fields – review 2013-05-12T12:54:00Z

“Everybody wanted a story,” Julia says, “a story with an arc, with motives and a climax and a resolution.” Review | Sex and the teenage boy 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

As captured by Mr. Lindsay-Hogg and his team, their swan-song performance was the climax of both “Let It Be” and “Get Back.” Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

As a whole, it does not quite work, especially at the end, when Mr. Chan tries for a Shakespearean climax of filial rebellion and paternal rage. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z

In the show’s climax, four young men join the actresses to perform Shaker dances to songs we have already heard. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Its surging climaxes were passionately rendered by these two fiery musicians, whose vigorous playing elicited sustained applause between movements. Music Review: Violin and Piano, in an Evening?s Conversation 2011-05-06T21:51:12Z

Philip Roth's Literary Javelin Curiously, two admirable novels published this year - both "The Ask," by Sam Lipsyte, and "Nemesis," by Philip Roth - climax emotionally with the throwing of a javelin. Arts & Leisure Preview: 'Women on the Verge,' Dan Barry on Bugs Bunny and More 2010-10-08T18:57:00Z

Then when he hit the climax, the band could have kicked back into the song. People get ready, the Bowersox train is a-coming 2010-04-21T14:16:00Z

In “Referential,” Moore’s reworking of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1948 short story, “Signs and Symbols,” the impact is again in her altered climax. ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z

Nominees and their backers, of course, are not the only people running off the rails as awards season nears its climax. The Carpetbagger: Snooki and Squibb? The Season Enters the Silly Phase 2014-02-24T15:00:20Z

The oncoming storm and the all hell breaking loose climax was very well done, with a mix of CGI adding a bit to the already dramatic shots of the mist cascading over the mountains. Outcasts: season one, episode three 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z

The climax is a talk by writer Jeff Lindsay, creator of Dexter, the small-screen slayer on the right side of the law, plus a preview of the fourth season's first episode. This week's new film events 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

The ease and innocence of all this felt almost shocking to me, accustomed as I am to American novels’ high drama and noisy climaxes. Preteen Angst, Swedish Style 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The result was a genre nearly new to the theater: inside-out soap opera, riveting and relatable but without hokey climaxes. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

He even sustained tension in the visionary Adagio, its climax all the more powerful for Herbig’s refusal to linger before reaching the heavenly summit. Back to basics with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

As that finale drew to a close, it was startling to hear the detail – every voice precise – in the spectral slithering that provides the calm before the storm of the final climax. Budapest Festival O/Fischer – review 2013-04-28T13:17:18Z

What if the sensation they have associated with climax is actually one of the the early foothills of arousal? How do women really know if they are having an orgasm? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Come for her and stay for the film’s uproarious climax, in which the plot’s various high jinks snowball into a dance number about women’s empowerment. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

In a taut, coherent reading, he brought such stylish moves as a scissoring downbeat, a head-butt for cross-rhythms and a jumping jack for climaxes that peaked midair. Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

As the work builds towards a climax, the chorus — the same one that performed the Brahms Requiem with Masur in 2001, the New York Choral Artists — almost shouts "Prepare yourself to live!" Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

When the ruthless, faceless power of the state finally asserts itself, what is meant to be a shocking climax merits little more than a nod and a shrug. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

But when those notes are the climaxes of arching lines, they’re thin. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s when it takes an extended period of sexual stimulation for a man to reach climax. “Men are rubbing themselves raw”: The trick to avoid losing penis sensitivity 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

I Am Love climaxes when Emma must choose between the pull of her family and the tug of her heart. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

Climatically, this may have been a climax, but for the company, it was an unfortunate interruption of the momentum built in the first week of its winter season. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Released in 1977, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions are perennial Queen live favourites, and were both performed in the Live Aid set whose recreation provides the climax of Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen divide audience at Oscars ceremony 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

The score's soft and softer passages, with subdued climaxes, showed Ohlsson's virtuosity in a quieter mode. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson packs Disney Hall for a thrilling, sometimes punishing, performance 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The novel climaxes with Hastings’s attempt to prevent the Nov. 22 assassination. The novel ‘Fever City’ puts a new twist on the Kennedy assassination 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

As Mathilda, an orphan who befriends a hitman, she was confident without being precocious, likable without being cloying and effortlessly involved us in the poignant climax. Natalie Portman: five best moments 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ten women drive through hard, slicing, geometric formations; lights flash, electro-percussive music reverberates; and the air becomes as thick and swarming as a tropical thunderstorm as the movement accelerates towards its convulsive climax. Ballet Preljocaj – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-19T15:57:12Z

But for many Strauss fans this spectacular sonic depiction of an Alpine outing and its exhilarating climaxes are irresistible. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

Before their departure, the Fairy rewards them with an assortment of confectionary dances that prove the climax of the ballet’s story — except that they tell no story and exist as if beyond all narrative. The Sugar Plum Fairy: An Enigma Wrapped in a Beautiful Dance 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Salinger’s disillusionment reaches its climax in 1945, as he helps liberate one of the camps at Dachau, in a masterful and stomach-churning set piece. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The climax involves a murder, or at least a murder attempt, although in place of flesh and blood the victim appears to be made of wood chips. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z

Only briefly, at the climax, in a terrifying psychosexual brew of sadism and fascism, are they fully aligned: she in domination, he in humiliation. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

And in a battle whose length and phantasmagoria befit a prog-rock double album, it reduced a climax eight years in the making to an inky, ill-defined scrum of beards and bones. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

A crushing climax leads not to destruction but profound acceptance. Gustavo Dudamel brings out the full force and awe of Mahler's Third Symphony 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The first movement, which moves from contemplation to anger, comes to a climax with the pianist hitting the keys with his forearms, an old California composer trick. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

And at that he succeeds very well; “Worthy Brown’s Daughter” is a fast and absorbing read, and Margolin’s law expertise makes the book’s climax — a courtroom battle — an exciting moment indeed. ‘Worthy Brown’s Daughter’: fighting for freedom in Oregon 2014-02-06T22:35:07Z

Then there are the occasional, exhilarating eruptions of noise, like the ecstatic climax of “Third Construction,” during which Mr. Cha-Beach drew piercing moans from a conch shell. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Jeanne Dielman,” the first of several of her films exploring the interior lives of women, meticulously tracks the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, slowly building to a dramatic climax. ‘Jeanne Dielman’ Named Greatest Film of All Time in Sight and Sound Poll 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

There was a moment, last fall, when that story seemed to reach its climax. How Do You Say ‘Kardashian’ in Italian? 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Magically, a satisfying twist turns the climax of “Mission: Possible” into an unforgettable, high-stakes game where love and war hang in the balance. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Rocker Paul Rodgers also complained about the use of his "All Right Now" at the climax of Trump's speech. British stars complain about Trump's use of their music 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an attractive, festive piece, a bit cinematic in spots but with a complex underpinning, building to a grand climax with chimes bonging away. David Lockington kicks off Pasadena Symphony with precision 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

No, this is a problem built into the biographical jukebox genre, whose songs leave the narrative only enough time for turning points and climaxes. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In this chronological narrative this happens, and then that happens, but there’s no drama; nothing builds toward climax or catharsis. Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z

One goddess pearl gray evening gown made in Chantilly lace dazzled as the music climaxed with an aria from Tosca, sung by Greek legend Maria Callas. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z

Cushing was a 22-year-old first lieutenant and commander of an Army artillery battery on July 3, 1863, at the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, a turning point of the 1861-65 Civil War. Obama awards officer Medal of Honor for Civil War heroism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Its climax was the - 12 weeks of concerts, exhibitions and events across the country that ran alongside the summer of sport in the Olympic Park. Did the Olympic arts inspire? 2012-09-12T09:59:30Z

Which brings us to the excellent climax of this inventive suspense story. ‘Not a Sound’: A thriller worth staying up all night to finish 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The climax of the piece is the famous two-handed tapping section. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

I still remember my husband finding me standing in the living room mid-chore, as if someone had hit pause on my activity, and crying with headphones on during the novel’s climax. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Invoking ghosts and ghostliness, this spacious yet intricate work managed to fill NYU Skirball’s expansive stage, building to a climax in which the three dancers, uncannily, appeared enmeshed as one. Best Dance Performances of 2022 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

His desire was to record one single collection from its blank start to its visual climax on the runway. The Inside Story of a Couture Dream in the Making 2012-01-09T12:30:21Z

The brio of the best Americana is present throughout the work, particularly in its rousing climax. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Herreweghe is never an extrovert interpreter, and after some very scrunchy, pointed dissonant climaxes, he lets the music float with Rosemary Joshua's ethereal soprano solo in the last movement, fading to nothing in eternal bliss. Mahler: Symphony No 4, Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Orchestre des Champs-Elys?es/Herreweghe ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:11Z

Edelstein's staging of the homicidal climax is more adroit with the violence than with the poignancy. Old Globe's 'Othello' lays on the melodrama, but it works 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

But she might just as well be Coldplay's highly strung kid sister; tracks such as Catalyst plot a steady but deeply satisfying course towards stadium-sized climaxes - epic bluster replaced with genuine bite. Kyla La Grange: Ashes – review 2012-07-28T23:05:42Z

The climax of his plot is heart-wrenching and spine-chilling, theatrical and deeply moving, and it speaks to the power and limitations of human resilience in ways that resonate profoundly with our time. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z

A later scene involving a preposterous musical number staged in front of the school board is supposed to be the climax but was probably funnier onstage than it is here. Review: 3 Teenagers Seek a Voice in ‘Speech & Debate’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

At the climax of Glacier, Grant just sits on his keyboard stool facing centre stage, nodding away, while the band carry this song about personal geology to its grand conclusion. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z

Right at the climax he varies it, giving a sense of pleading. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

If ever there was a moment when her infatuation with Greece and all things Greek seems to climax, this is it. A Passion for Punctuation Meets a Love for All Things Greek 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

“It was pretty interesting to watch the actors in the first take,” Mr. Soderbergh said of the sequence, which climaxes with a startlingly lifelike baby, complete with inflatable lungs, being pulled from the carnage. Modern Medicine, Circa 1900, in Soderbergh’s ‘The Knick’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Conductor Edward Gardner and the orchestra bring out the quiet lyric beauty of many passages while hitting the dramatic climaxes with thrilling power. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z

Photograph: ITV Tonight will see the live climax of The Big Reunion, the hit reality show about 1990s and noughties bands reforming. The Big Reunion: from broken dreams to reality stars 2013-02-26T15:46:23Z

One of the most famous scenes, in the second act, is an amorous encounter between the lovers that is brutally spoiled right before the climax. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In terms of a narrative and the traditional Western storytelling form, there is no climax with the Age of Trump. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

At the climax of the song “Memory,” Mo Rocca would bite a couch pillow. Why exactly did so many people like ‘Cats’ in the first place? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The 93rd Oscars didn't wipe out that badly, but it sure did massage us toward a specific climax that did not arrive. "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Disembowelment and death provided an erotic climax of unspeakable perversity. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The liveliest dance sequence arrives at the climax of the first act, when Danielle and Henry, who have been visiting a monastery with a particularly rich library, are set upon by a band of Gypsies. Review: ‘Ever After,’ a Slipperless Cinderella Tale, at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

He represents the Twin Towers in two big sections that build to big climaxes and then musically collapse as a symbol for works of humanity over the long river of time. Hear Now Music Festival reveals the essence of Los Angeles new music -- we do as we please 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

They are, barely, although it hardly matters in the flurry of frantic rewrites and tumbling mishaps that climax in a dangerous-looking acrobatic finish. The new farce ‘The Good Devil’ presents a banana peel of a plot 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Znaider's next engagement with the Hallé is on the podium in May, conducting the Ninth Symphony at the climax of the Beethoven cycle. Hall?/Elder ? review 2012-02-12T15:11:38Z

As Greg arranges the buying and selling, the big dramatic climax involves shooting and chasing and helicopters and explosions and even a rocket launcher, but all of it comes off as lackluster. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Structurally, in the script, her meta performance is the climax of the movie, the director said. ‘She Said’ Filmmakers and Weinstein Victims: An Emotional Collaboration 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

When Candace finally puts her stiletto heel down, the crack is heard round the K-pop world, resulting in a nail-biting climax that plays out thrillingly until the very last page. Young Adult Debuts 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Just as the emotional transformation reaches its climax, the music startles with a shimmering, introspective diminuendo that drifts down from the heavens, a passage Ms. Netrebko navigates with trembling and bewitched delicacy. Anna Netrebko May Be Extra, but That’s Why We Love Her 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Having to work for every effect builds a thrilling tension, particularly in climaxes. Verismo Arias 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

As big and dark and serious as The Avengers was big and light and fun, the climax to Nolan's Batman trilogy ticks most of the boxes it was demanded to – which is quite an achievement. This week's new films 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

Its potential for complex chords was fully explored in a work whose terrifying climax felt like a headlong rush to destruction. Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin ? review 2011-04-11T17:31:24Z

Ms. Stefanovich’s performance was staggeringly brilliant, especially the frenzied, explosive climax of the final fast movement. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

I am drawn to the ones who will never be there at the climax of the book. Michael Ondaatje: By the Book 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

As carefully lit by Kevin Adams, Hedwig’s face can suddenly look shockingly naked, even before the real stripping down that provides this show with its stirring climax. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z

His own anxiety, however, becomes even more overwhelming as he wanders, alone and frightened, through the dark apartment in the film's climax. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert’s love for Bruckner is unmistakable, and this performance contained glories: luminous French-horn solos by Philip Myers; awed hushes; pulverizing climaxes. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z

The novel’s closing chapters are as suspenseful and ultimatelyas shocking as the climax of any thriller I can recall; the final pages will leave readers numb. Book review: ‘Irene’ by Pierre Lemaitre 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

The chord vibrates toward climax, then yields to a few pinpricks of guitar and an easy interplay of cymbals and handclaps. Song of the Summer: “Parking Lot,” by Anderson .Paak 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

As danced by Tiler Peck, the brilliant New York City Ballet principal who plays the central role, this wordless passage brings the musical to a stirring climax. ‘Little Dancer,’ With Tiler Peck as Degas Muse 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

This Faustian bargain impels the plot to an inevitable climax that works less well on the stage than in the film. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

I mean the reproduction of the White Queen’s rising cry of “Better, better, better!” as the climax of the most successful of all Beatles singles, “Hey, Jude.” Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Everything climaxes in the TV studio that, with the help of willing earthling collaborators, beams out subliminal propaganda to the clueless earthlings at home. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Milton is named at the argument's climax, and Milton's art is equalled in the syntax and tone. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z

The crowd in Austin also was jangled by its slow-burn escalation of menace to a climax of outrageous, deeply unsettling proportions. SXSW Film: The Movies and Performers That Stood Out 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a stunning climax in a mostly light half-hour, and it feels like a mission statement. Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Then there is the problem with the film's climax. In Jewish horror film "The Vigil," a mythological demon manifests the trauma of anti-Semitism 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Witnessing desperate Dan pluck out his opponent’s peeper was the sort of operatic climax that can define an entire series. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

She cries out with pleasure as they climax eight times. Fifty Shades of Grey: the digested screenplay 2012-06-12T17:30:01Z

It’s nearly always penetrative, and that might be how you make babies, but it’s not the best way to make your partner climax. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

And in fact, while some of the political messaging struck a slightly gauche chord, it was captivating, and the results – particularly the climax, when they conjured a Gauguin image – memorable. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z

In “Die Wetterfahne,” he is unafraid of a little ugliness, which works until a barking climax. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Weeks later Bareilles emailed an MP3 demo of “She Used to Be Mine,” the soulful ballad that drives the musical’s climax. ‘The most welcoming safe space on the planet’: How Sara Bareilles returned to her roots in theater 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

To reach climax, I had to find that same toxic mix of shame and lust. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

The hangover sets in only when the film stirs in false suspense about its half-baked climax. ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: Cinema Pinot Grigio 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

“I think back to where we were even 10 years ago and one or two of the set pieces in ‘Tenet’ could have probably been the climax of one of those earlier movies,” Thomas laughed. What’s bigger than an event film? ‘Tenet’ might just be 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

And in the affecting climax of this evening, McSweeny manages his own commentary on this world, with a vision of a solitary Viola, at peace and inwardly transformed. Review | A ‘Twelfth Night’ that’s great for any night 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Extremism in the pursuit of a stage climax is not necessarily a vice. Carrie Is Back: The Resurrection and the Life 2012-03-05T14:35:27Z

He neither had to establish the story and introduce the characters nor deliver “an exciting climax” for the trilogy. Director talks about expanding ‘Hobbit,’ dragon anxiety 2013-12-12T00:32:07Z

The Intermezzo from “Atzimba,” an opera by the 19th-century composer Ricardo Castro, had a Wagnerian flavor, with lush string passages and stirring climaxes. Music Review: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas at Alice Tully 2010-05-12T21:31:00Z

As the narrative hurtles toward a shocking and cinematic climax, Tiller’s funny and naive observations keep the reader rooting for this wonderfully magnetic lost soul and his enigmatic mentor. Review | Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Her writing was cathartic but instead of building to an epiphany, she would evoke the climax more circumspectly, let the reader sense it. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

The kids gasped as if they'd seen the climax of the magician's final act. I grew up in the city, not hiking or camping. As an adult, I want my family to enjoy nature's beauty 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Goerke, who has sung Brünnhilde, easily navigated Sieglinde’s music with her dramatic soprano, cresting the climaxes instead of getting washed-out by them. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Potato-bodied Jimmy meets the father he never knew, and the story stretches back over a century to climax, unforgettably, at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

When Edo finds out about his mother's amour, events mount to a violent, guilt-ridden climax with an accidental death, resembling a distaff version of Louis Malle's Damage. I Am Love 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

To me, the series climaxes in this moment. How ‘Unorthodox’ Captured One Woman’s Flight From Hasidic Brooklyn 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Only one other financial meltdown can compare to the Wall Street Crash for the length of its impact: the one that hit a climax with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Either way, prepare for an emotional climax built, like the rest of the film, around what happened to rich white people. The Impossible submerges the true impact of the tsunami 2013-01-03T10:53:56Z

With designer David Walker, Corder tells his story with beguiling, romantic imagery climaxing in a spectacular finale that seals the happy ever after conclusion. Dance picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

This processional narrative reaches its climax with the hills, which will be partly built on the rubble left over from the demolition of the Coast Guard barracks and warehouses. Architecture Review: Plan for Governors Island Has Hills, Views and Hammocks 2010-04-12T22:21:00Z

When this builds to a colossal, tragic climax, it makes the ballet’s scale seem briefly cosmic. ‘Swan Lake’ Discoveries Allow for a Deeper Dive Into Its History 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The climax is both chaotically messy and fussily neat, as the bullets fly a little too frequently and hit their targets with clean, hollow thumps of significance. Movie Review | 'Brooklyn?s Finest': When Troubled Cops Cross the Thin Blue Line 2010-03-04T22:53:00Z

These are necessarily subtle changes because Guetta’s music is explicitly designed to achieve ecstatic, cathartic climaxes, the kind that’ll help listeners forget their own problems, and those moments remain the focus of Listen. Review: David Guetta Falls Behind His Contemporaries on Listen 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It’s also a devastatingly powerful wish-fulfilment story that builds to a mysterious, spiritual climax of sacrifice, redemption and rebirth. Melissa Mathison: a masterful storyteller who brought ET to life 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Yet even this bare moment is clothed by prefigurement: We grasp, even as we read, that Williams will turn it into the cannibalistic climax of “Suddenly, Last Summer.” Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Despite OUATIH’s relaxed pace, we know it is all building up to a violent climax. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Tarantino's last word? Discuss with spoilers 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s vaudeville just shy of burlesque, zipping into a lively Charleston-slapstick air as they dance the “Hot Honey Rag” finale that climaxes in cartwheels. The killer-dillers of ‘Chicago’ have been slaying audiences for decades 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Right before the climax of “The Businessman’s Blues,” trap doors open onstage, and a small army of additional spotlights rear their mole-like heads. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The ratings for the final will not be known until Thursday but are expected to top the 8.5 million viewers who watched the climax to last year’s fourth series on BBC2. Nancy Birtwhistle wins The Great British Bake Off 2014 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Ferocious climaxes, composed of complex, raw instrumental textures, were too compelling to dull. Evening of tangerine dreams as wild Up makes its Santa Barbara debut 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

But in case you were worried Shawn Ryan might have lost his touch, wait till you get to the climax of the first hour. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z

At the end, the two movie stars come together — and the climax is a long tap-dance sequence. Film: Paying Tribute to a Silent Hollywood 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

And as such, it is a work of written-through drama, rarely pausing for reflection and moving propulsively toward its tragic climax. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Even the Americans briefly commissioned airships in hopes of winning the heavens — all of which is recounted in “Empires of the Sky” with mounting tension, building to the climax of the Hindenburg. When Airplanes and Zeppelins Competed to Conquer the Skies 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

But Espinosa botches the climax, with four of the principles rolling in the Rostov mud, and the bad guys given more strength and fighting skills than is remotely plausible. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

At least you do until all sense drops out of the story at the climax. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z

And the dramatic rooftop climax was dramatic and climactic. TV review: Doctor Who; The Thick Of It 2012-09-30T11:00:02Z

If the second Hobbit film climaxes with all the dragony stuff, then pretty much the whole of There and Back Again is going to be the Battle of Five Armies. The Desolation of Smaug's quest to transform The Hobbit 2013-06-12T17:04:00Z

Another form of transportation, a train, also becomes significant, and its loud rush is used to bring the action to a climax. Building Sounds for ‘Killing Them Softly’ 2012-11-24T23:26:30Z

At the climax, as the Potemkin estate begins to dematerialize, he thinks, “My shriek’s like a shriek shrieked into a traffic cone all stifled and muted.” David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her choice of an ending is curious but powerful in its own way - instead of swelling to a climax, the music quietly trails off, almost as if in mid-measure. New opera celebrates imprisoned Maori hero 2012-03-16T10:01:06Z

Also the climax was a bit of a let-down, because it lacked excitement and activity which was not what I expected. The Feluda Stories by Satyajit Ray - review 2012-08-16T08:00:00Z

If you think you are about to climax, then try to produce the relevant facial expression but don’t, it makes sense that your brain may deduce that you are not having that much fun. Does Botox curb your sexual pleasure? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet this fall, Washington theaters lamented that the stage had a puny voice, if any voice at all, as the hyper-theatrical campaign boiled to its climax. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Wielding his 10 batons to extraordinary effect, Temirkanov elicited myriad inner details and colors from the orchestra, building inexorably to Shostakovich's shattering climaxes. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Later, as the climax to Schaal's woebegone take on the Little Match Girl story, Braunohler sweeps in as Satan and the pair perform a flat-footed ballet. Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen ? review 2011-08-17T18:50:01Z

Madness becomes a climax in operas by Boito, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Britten and others. They’ve Come Undone: Giselle, Lucia and Romantic Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levine began with orchestral excerpts: the Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from “Das Rheingold” and the Ride of the Valkyries from “Die Walküre,” with radiant, full-bodied string playing and stirring, brassy climaxes. James Levine Ends a Climactic Season With the Met Orchestra 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Broadway musical Rock of Ages climaxed with a massed rendition. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax. Life of Brian: No 10 2010-10-18T10:44:00Z

In the first episode that Shane Meadows himself directs, a Gary Lineker hat trick provides the backdrop to a disturbing climax. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-09-21T07:00:00Z

But Mr. Ryoo adroitly moves his camera through vast, crowded settings, and the climax sweeps you up in its ineluctable intensity. Review: ‘The Battleship Island’ Is a Violent War Spectacle 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Building to a mighty climax in a grand account of Liszt’s sprawling sonata, Levit projected a kind of burning patience through the evening. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The three completed movements mean the symphony ends with a great Adagio that builds to a formidable climax, to which Blomstedt brought incredible power, and then it ends quietly. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The sons’ humiliations climax with the oldest, Gregory’s, tumultuous speech at a luncheon after Bellow accepted the Nobel Prize. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The climax for the day is the traditional fell race up Loughrigg fell. Rush hour in Ambleside; and everyone knows what to do 2012-07-09T15:30:00Z

Painting with what he calls Shostakovich’s “cold colors,” Nelsons traces the tragic arc of the monumental first movement, slowing building tension to a tightly controlled climax before receding in weary resignation. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Their relationship, which dominates the climax of the film, is the movie’s crucial one. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Towards the climax of the piece, the women hold up photographs of the dead. Ea Sola: 'I'm not an intellectual, I come from the forest' 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z

Of course, any show that features a hard-fought sporting event as its climax should have suspense. ArtsBeat: Running in Circles: 'Chariots of Fire' in London 2012-06-28T14:59:50Z

And Breads Bakery, though not where our babka story starts, it is where the story climaxes. Babka's disputed, delicious origin story 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

It's reminiscent of the climax to Beasts of the Southern Wild, and in its way it's just as moving. 12 O'Clock Boys: the documentary for those suffering The Wire withdrawal 2013-06-18T10:30:13Z

In reality, that choice was the climax of the experiment; there would be no electric shocks for either group. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

There was quite a rude scene in it when I had to, um, climax. Katherine Parkinson: 'I like stuff that's both harrowing and hilarious' 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Even if the issue of the war veteran returns awkwardly at the climax, Norris's play nails the thorny subject of race relations with a bilious zest that takes one's breath away. Clybourne Park 2010-09-03T09:35:00Z

Image and illusion are routinely taken for substance, a confusion that reaches its climax in the simple but resonant coup de theatre that ends the show. ArtsBeat: Under The Radar Review: 'Diciembre' 2011-01-12T18:24:49Z

A sympathetic partner, he mustered robust climaxes but never overplayed. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z

And inevitably, the time for breaking up — and making up — reaches its hoped-for climax. | Tick, Tick, Tick 2011-01-28T20:10:58Z

But the true climax is the epiphany that can only be delivered by the wild obliterating sea; and hence is not available in Hampstead. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Even more impressive is “The Oak,” from 1943, in which Jeter leads the players through an exquisitely gloomy opening and shattering climaxes. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The book revisits questions that have long preoccupied Luiselli — how can language be an agent of both violence and repair? — but this time, they are nested into a story with a heart-stopping climax. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

But as the story spirals toward its climax, Mr. Sturridge grows more expressionistic; what at first seemed like a cameraman’s charming squint, for instance, begins to look like a moral migraine. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

That exchange highlights the most meaningful currency in this 30+ year long drama that is just now seeing its climax unfold on the public stage: silence. Bill Cosby and the Oppressive Power of Silence 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The players emphasize the beat, four-bar phrasing and instant gratification climaxes in the manner of much 21st century popular music. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The political heat rises but the movie stays cool, its smooth, smart climax in keeping with its levelheaded tone. Review: In ‘Monsters and Men,’ Racism Disrupts a Neighborhood 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The mystery, she said, will continue through episode 15, “with a giant, delightful, delicious climax in the season finale.” Dallas Returns with J.R. Ewing’s Final Schemes 2013-01-25T19:10:26Z

And I guess he did give the best piano performance, pounding out parts of “Rhapsody in Blue” at the climax of “Good Night, Oscar.” Best and Worst Moments of the 76th Tony Awards 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Dohnanyi built to the two explosive climaxes — inexorably but without speeding up, everything in its own good time — the restraint was palpable, almost painful. Review: New York Philharmonic Dives Into Brahms’s ‘German Requiem’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Tharp has also set the climax — or rather two climaxes, one in the middle, one at the end — to Sinatra singing “My Way.” Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

And so eventually, especially in the film's bloody desert climax, the sun bakes everyone mercilessly, bleaching away the colors and revealing the characters' true natures. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z

“Ultralight Beam” is — more than most songs — a collective effort that scoops up energy from various traditions and performers as it chugs hypnotically toward its climax. Perspective | One of the most powerful works of video art will be available free online this weekend. Here’s why you must watch. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

It's quickly revealed that the events we are watching are happening 60 days before the climax of the previous film. Paranormal Activity 2 ? review 2010-10-22T10:53:00Z

I wouldn’t have dared say that out loud, but even then, I think, I somehow sensed that this was a climax that wouldn’t provide much resolution, a space-age shaggy-dog story. Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Yet Storgards kept sight, doggedly, of where he wanted to go, and by the time he reached yet another climax, in the final movement, he brought to it a feeling of arrival. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But if industrialization messed up the evening's climax, that failure only fulfilled Ginsberg's greater prophecy and wound up seeming like an unintentionally inspired moment. 'Hydrogen Jukebox' a timely illumination of the American experience 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Only one scene shows an aftermath of violence: the assassination of JFK, the climax of the show. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Especially moving were the impassioned climax of the slow movement and the delightfully, then frighteningly, off-kilter scherzo. Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

"Send up a prayer in my name," Garvey begs tonight, as the band build the song into a huge, drenching climax. Elbow ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:55Z

Plus he’s plenty anxious over Iraq’s threatened missile attacks — which indeed arrive at the movie’s climax. ‘Golden Voices’ Review: In Tel Aviv, With an Unappreciated Talent 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Her fans, who are mostly women, call themselves CoHorts and post gushing reactions to her books’ devastating climaxes. How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

The sensible spouse and inquisitive offspring are foils for Andrea, and help ground the show as a domestic sitcom that usually climaxes in a lesson of the week. The Toothless Satire of “I’m Sorry” and “Friends from College” 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Once the overloaded electronics reached a massive climax, we were left in someplace sonically new, full of electronic echoes and somber piano chords, as though arriving in a magically gray land. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

To make matters worse for the school the gory climax of the film takes place onstage in the campus’s theatre, officially putting an end to Ohio Windsor’s nascent theatre program. Scream Queens: a look at campus horrors at pop culture's deadliest schools 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

And so the opera comes to its astonishing climax. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

This lyrical climax — among the most famous in literature — becomes more a rhetorical exercise than an epiphany of self-revelation. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

They've only got until the end of the movie to make up, win the girl AND the contest, and climax in a horrific, Auto-Tuned finale of toothy doom. TV highlights 13/07/2012 2012-07-12T18:59:01Z

And she is a vibrant presence in front of an orchestra, rising to her toes at climaxes. Review: A Rising Star Takes Her Turn, as the Met Turns the Page on Levine 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

When the book’s climax finally does come, Isabel manages to extricate herself from her past in a relatively simple fashion. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's a fittingly adrenalin-splashed climax to a gig that has showcased a truly exceptional talent, one who can currently do no wrong. Plan B – review 2012-07-31T14:00:46Z

When she fakes it, he is the wounded party: her absent climax becomes his loss. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The drive takes just 10 minutes, winding through spectacular scenery that recalls the climax of “The Sound of Music,” which was filmed on a distant section of the same mountain range. The best of Slovenia in one day: Ski in the morning, take a dip in the sea in the afternoon 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

But Aucoin gives the sequence an orchestral accompaniment of Wagnerian grandeur, rising to a pitched climax, as if the father had just built Valhalla. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Ravel’s “La Valse” was the climax, a work that seemed overplayed and indeed was last heard from the NSO in 2014. From the NSO, a pops concert that fizzled 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But for the finale, they have to reach some kind of story climax, dazzle the audience, and most importantly, as Hank Williams allegedly once said to his son, Hank Jr., “Always leave them wanting more.” The Walking Dead Watch: Beside the Dying Fire 2012-03-19T13:14:58Z

The record’s emotional climax is “Valentina,” a salute to Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

But 25 minutes is a long time to sustain a climax, and the effect wore off long before the ending came. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The play’s use of music, given eerie specific life here by Stephen Warbeck, charts the fragmentation of the male characters, climaxing in a fourth-act danse macabre of uncanny, ugly beauty. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Three parties here in 2010 climaxed with a monster all-nighter on New Year's Eve and they continue the momentum with tonight's Valentine fancy dress number. Clubs picks of the week 2011-02-12T00:05:37Z

He found the experience so disgusting that he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, climax, waiting until he was home to take the matter in hand. Tolstoy’s granddaughter. Dali’s sleek couch. How Serge Gainsbourg became Serge Gainsbourg 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

I’m meeting Sheikh for the climax of the course – our practical exam, if you will. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The performance climaxes, then slinks on, crests again and continues. Review: Mummenschanz Offers Wonder, and a Grumpy Trash Bag 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

This is why during the film’s climax Kevin literally transforms into a murderous, cannibalistic beast, complete with a mane of wild hair, super strength, the ability to climb walls and unbreakable skin. “Split” has very problematic views on psychological disorders — but to explain why, I need to spoil the film’s brilliant twist 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

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. | 'Through a Glass Darkly': Under Pretty Skin, Madness Lurks 2011-06-07T02:06:38Z

Days is more equable and consistent, hanging onto a rhythmic ostinato while rising to a hefty climax before sinking back into silence, though it is also the least memorable of the four. Emerson String Quartet ? review 2011-04-12T10:46:27Z

The film proceeds at an agreeable clip toward its fairly predictable climax, led by Mr. Byrd’s assured performance. | 'Norman': Jonathan Segal?s ?Norman? ? Review 2011-10-21T02:30:11Z

Unlike the original, Paranormal Activity 2's pacing is uneven; it builds slowly and effectively before rushing too quickly, and at one point not particularly coherently, through the climax. Paranormal Activity 2: This Time, It's Impersonal 2010-10-22T18:20:00Z

At the emotional climaxes, Miss Landis grew rather tearful, but no one mocked her. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Only toward the climax, when the live/die/repeat cycle is abandoned, does Edge of Tomorrow go logy. REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“Life and death are not clean, separate functions,” an errant nun tells Cora as the story hurtles along to its creepy, oddly lovely climax. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The sections of the text were similarly proportioned; I placed Ruth's words "Allele, occult as Kabbalah" at the work's climax. Symphony of life: making music out of the human genome 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z

A physically imposing actor with an executioner’s glower, Mr. Shannon seemed ready-made for the lethal role of the Stranger, who appears briefly in two scenes but drives the play to its climax. A Theater Is Conjured, Then Leaves Only Memory 2011-06-06T23:01:50Z

Her take follows Pilate from his youth as the sensitive son of a Roman knight to the reluctant governorship of Judea, climaxing with his reluctant decision to order Jesus Christ's crucifixion. Warner Bros planning film about Pontius Pilate 2012-08-22T14:39:23Z

One exploding orchestral climax was like a Big Bang, scattering motifs into shards of notes to reveal a lumbering, elemental bass line that gravitationally pulls the music back to earth. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z

A few hours later, TV audiences will have an opportunity to hear some of that symphony played during the climax of this acclaimed drama. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Bronx, USA’ and ‘Baroness von Sketch Show’ 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Singleton shot the story’s scenes in order, which is virtually unheard of; you can sense his tracking shots growing more ambitious as the story reaches its tragic climax. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

They closed the set with a trio of "Bitte Orca" songs, climaxing with "Stillness Is the Move," Dirty Projectors' would-be hit, and the album's title track. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z

The story climaxes with a murder but otherwise bears no resemblance to traditional crime fiction. Review | Five years after Henning Mankell’s death, his gritty first novel makes a welcome appearance 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

As rewarding as the matchup is — pile-driver force meeting the graceful kung fu style wing chun — it is not the movie’s climax, and ends in a stalemate. Review: In ‘Ip Man 3,’ Donnie Yen Brawls With Mike Tyson and Others 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

They took the EDM standard of building a pulsing musical climax quite literally. Watch this girl group’s orgasmic new music video 2014-05-09T18:00:00Z

The most magnificent element, though, is Prince’s vocal — a fantastically acrobatic falsetto come-on, punctuated with firecracker exclamations and climaxing with roof-raising shrieks. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It happened halfway through the first movement, moments before the climax. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure whether Barnard intended her horrifying climax to be a specific allusion to this, or if it matters. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z

For Vass and his festival orchestra, though, the climax was clearly the first airing of Elgar's String Quartet Op 83 in David Matthews's sympathetic arrangement. Presteigne festival 2010-09-03T21:16:00Z

Happily, her marshaling of the concluding climaxes erased the memory of that deficit, down to the pounding thuds of the doubled timpani. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra finds its Mahler groove 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the film’s climax. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

At the story’s climax, the children stumble into a scene of mob violence against Tamil-speaking people, sparked by conflict over scarce water in a warming world. A Jailed Indian Boy Chases His Scrap of Sky 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

There's a brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives, and shameful compromises. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z

At the climax of this exceptionally entertaining book, Holmes solves not one but three interrelated mysteries. 'The House of Silk': a long-buried Sherlock Holmes mystery 2011-12-15T20:52:00Z

A brilliantly staged scene when the echo from Chuck's listening device tips Orson off about being eavesdropped – and everything unravels while the loose ends come together at the film's climax. Clip joint: Lipstick 2011-07-27T08:15:36Z

Bintley is also choreographing against the obstacle of Carl Davis's score, which pumps out atmospheric climax but lacks sufficient rhythmic variety to inspire serious dance invention. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Aladdin – review 2013-02-18T11:49:51Z

The climaxes, if there are any, are instrumental. Review | Amen Dunes’s 9:30 Club show wasn’t dramatic. But it had a mighty sound. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The “Animal Farm” meets “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” climax yields some clever twists. Review: ‘The Belko Experiment’: Kill or Be Killed 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

At the emotional climax, Tick and his young son duet on “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Always on My Mind.” | 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert': With Song in Heart, Pompoms on Head 2011-03-21T02:02:00Z

During the musical climax a suspended truss raises the ceiling to twice its height, and clips holding the walls are released and the fabric falls away. ArtsBeat: The xx’s Armory Show: Step by Step 2014-03-21T21:01:22Z

It works itself to a ferocious climax, and then turns more reflective, surrounding the voice with shadowy, evanescent textures. London Sinfonietta/Beat Furrer ? review 2011-01-20T18:10:59Z

Yet part of the wonder here was that Otaka was able to fashion a thrilling climax to this section, while still creating expectation of an eventual fulfilment of an even greater architectural span. BBC Now/Otaka ? review 2010-10-04T21:45:00Z

A fake-folk aria for Régine’s devoted maid falls flat; an attempt at a Puccinian “meditation” for strings never takes off; and a complex ensemble climax is weakened by aimlessly drifting counterpoint. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

At the climax, one can hear she's not a girl anymore. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z

If the notes of drama here are occasionally struck too hard — in this scene’s climax, Zo is momentarily too superhuman — it’s nevertheless effective. In ‘Zo,’ Love Must Overcome Class Difference and Disaster 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

“I could all of the sudden feel O.K. about writing a big symphonic movement with a big climax in it,” he added. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

At the film’s climax, there is a different emotion. Short films, big Oscar hopes: Inside 4 Academy Award contenders for Best Live Action short 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

The difference in “The Witch” is that climactic combat concludes in midair climax, and that not everyone is cheering at such literal comeuppance. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

When the song reaches its climax with a chorus of double-tracked vocals – Ocean's low-key sing-song voice set against a passionate falsetto – it's probably the sonic highlight of the album. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z

“You Can’t Stop the Beat” comes at the celebratory climax of “Hairpspray,” as characters of all sizes and colors unite in an expression of belief in themselves. Perspective | This remarkable ‘Hairspray’ video raises the roof. Even better, it raises money for entertainers in need. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

And here, in the climax, they apply them. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

Eli Block calls them the “junk food” of sex, as they are about getting speedily to the brief explosion of climax. “Like you’re touching your closed eyelid”: (Mis)adventures in orgasmic meditation 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The climax of the set was a drum battle; full kits were set up at each end of the stage. 'Broad City' takes the Troubadour 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

None of this is especially scary, but, if you’re patient, Wan delivers the kind of hilariously sick climax that only a sadist would spoil. ‘Malignant’ Review: Womb for Improvement 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The knives are out, but only notionally; the play’s hysterical climax, in which they, their daughters, their cats and their parakeets feast on one another as food, is merely a mutual fantasy. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

It works, but climaxes come less regularly or easily. My life in sex: ‘For me, it’s like enjoying the same meal every day’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Its beguiling climax – left so open for interpretation that it still inspires debate to this day – was perfect for a series that enjoyed defying convention at every turn. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

If fans are right, and lip-bitten ballad closer Indestructible is a preview of Body Talk Pt 3, that record might be the big sentimental climax. Robyn: Body Talk Pt 2 2010-08-26T14:30:00Z

The climaxes were blazing yet never over the top, and textures were carefully layered: in the Adagio from the 10th, the horns formed a liquid foundation for the leaps in the strings. Music Review: A Conquering Climax to a Tribute to Mahler 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

But Jolson — for whom the fourth wall was a mere inconvenience — managed to stop the show each night, usually at its climax, to sing a medley of his popular hits. Hollywood Star Gives Broadway a Much-Needed Boost. Sound Familiar? 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

The dramatic outcome of that killing is the climax of the film. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Some of the voices are high, some low, some graceful, some coarse, but all are beautiful, swelling together into an almost overwhelming climax. Readers recommend: songs about birds 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z

It climaxes with the realisation that the passing is ultimately an act of catharsis. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z

The climax of “The Undoing” on HBO was a classic TV event, a murder mystery that built viewership and interest until the killer’s identity was revealed on Nov. 30. 2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The title describes the climax, a weird vaudeville show presented on a rickety outdoor stage for an audience of everyone Binew has encountered over the previous 12 hours. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z

Their stories are cleverly intertwined, as Kazuma is reluctantly hauled back into action for a thrilling climax. Yakuza 4 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:22Z

A climax came in 1913 when artists and critics put together a massive show of recent trends in European and American art at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The play reaches its climax in the historic speech, the Checkers speech, with which he vindicated himself. Theater Review: ‘Checkers,’ With Anthony LaPaglia, at the Vineyard Theater 2012-11-09T03:00:08Z

I’ve never heard the clearing of the air near the start of the second movement, marked “Comedy,” sound so eerily gleaming, nor the climaxes feel so sleek. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The days that the movie spends with them touch on issues of race, class and gentrification, and build to a wrenching climax. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Expecting Amy’ and ‘Palm Springs’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

In both episodes, the comedy seems to be working on a parallel track to the journalism rather than building with it to a climax, as on Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight.” Review: How Do You Solve ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

By the show's climax, D'Banj is half-naked and essaying moves that seem to refer mostly to the title of his forthcoming album, Mr Endowed. D'Banj – review 2012-08-29T09:05:08Z

The practice started in 1974, when Arthur Fiedler, the locally beloved maestro of the Boston Pops Orchestra, performed it at the climax of his annual Fourth of July concert on the Charles River Esplanade. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

But when Fleming finally let rip at the climax of Mahler's Um Mitternacht, the mix of sensuality and spirituality proved intoxicating. Renée Fleming/Maciej Pikulski – review 2012-12-10T18:50:49Z

As the trailer reaches its climax, we see the Batman insignia set against the backdrop of a crumbling city. The Dark Knight Rises trailer: Batman's best bits, but what else? 2011-07-19T16:53:09Z

At the climax, though, the picture becomes Wall Street Weak. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z

As the lurid story unfolded, Mr. Nelsons summoned enveloping swaths of sound and piercing climaxes. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

The emotional climax of Terence Blanchard’s SummerStage concert on Friday night, at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island, arrived precisely one hour in, like a timed detonation. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

But it just builds up to such a fantastic climax, I think. Nick Hornby's favourite music – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-07-10T10:11:50Z

Photograph: Robert Day It might at first seem odd to find Ibsen's tight-structured play forming the climax to a Festival of Chaos that has already brought us The Bacchae and Blood Wedding. Hedda Gabler – review 2012-07-11T16:33:08Z

The climax of the book is the chapter “The Raging Fire,” about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Two Authors View America From Above and Below, and Are Not Happy With What They See 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

When she belts them out at the film’s climax, they’re almost revelatory. Hear me out: why Crossroads isn't a bad movie 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

There is another convenient accident near the end, but in this more full-bodied, deliberately paced, stylistically controlled film the atmosphere of entrapment and futility isn’t entirely dissipated by the climax. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z

In the Eighth, both the first and last movement displayed the orchestra’s impressive firepower, with Mr. Fischer holding back for a fraction of a second before a climax, allowing the sound to detonate unencumbered. Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Close to 6 million tuned into the BBC1 show last weekend, setting Saturday's live final up for unflattering comparisons with the Britain's Got Talent climax, which was the highest-rating TV show of the year. The Voice: TV talent show needs a revamp, says BBC 2013-06-21T19:00:22Z

The 2013-14 season commemorates the 25th anniversary of Ashton’s death; this festival brings it to a climax. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Festival in Sarasota Honors a Legacy 2014-05-01T23:32:34Z

Her film confronted pharmaceutical companies that suggested women were dysfunctional, and therefore needed some sort of medicinal or therapeutic help, if they could not climax during sex. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z

In the movie’s famous climax, “the riot after the death of Radio Raheem feels earned,” said Justin Gomer, a film scholar and assistant professor of American studies at California State University, Long Beach. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that’s why the movie doesn’t use the Largo show as a climax so much as a prelude to the rebuilding of her act. Review: Netflix’s Tig Notaro Documentary, ‘Tig,’ Recalls a Time of Uncomfortable Laughs 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Eventually Malachi’s world intersects with that of the teenagers, but the climax, such as it is, isn’t very climactic. Review: ‘Sunset Edge,’ Where Mysteries Lurk at an Abandoned Trailer Park 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

At the climax of “Fort Apache” Thursday becomes a victim of his stubborn commitment to the life he has led, unable to escape himself or the institutional history he embodies. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z

What a joy it is when Herman marries the two styles, endowing plain-spokenness with panache, exactly at the climax of the song. How a Jerry Herman Song Landed a Triple Punch 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The pair can be seen running through a prehistoric wilderness, Spot perched atop Arlo's head, at the video's climax. 'The Good Dinosaur' teaser trailer: Pixar asks, 'What if ... ?' 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

It involved CGI penises and a very evident climax, with sexual positions that had to be re-shot after complaints from the editing suite. How American Gods changed the game for gay sex on TV 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

"You reach the climax, boom, that's it. Next one. It never gets boring." Oscars 2015: Argentine director's 'Wild Tales' hits on universal tensions 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

I might have skipped the passage describing the creation by Hephaestus of a new set of armor for Achilles, which slows the momentum just when this hour-and-40-minute evening should be racing to its climax. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z

It's a clever climax to a programme that delivers three very different views of Russia. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z

Given all that transpires leading up to the will-they-or-won't-they-make-it climax — and the film is just one suggestion of how things could possibly play out — Dewil feels he needs to explain what happened. The intriguing, well-acted "Immaculate Room" isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

But the visuals are minimal at the play’s climax — an evocation of the massacre that unfurls largely in darkness pierced by flashes of aching light. Review | ‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Their long and loud clash climaxed in a cavalry charge by mounted police down the main street of a terraced village. The art of Thatcher: images of the battling baronness 2013-04-09T08:00:03Z

As it lumbers to its climax, the movie delineates the border that separates the merely stale from the genuinely rancid. ‘The Fanatic’ Review: John Travolta as a Troubled Devotee 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Only at the story’s shocking climax do we finally grasp the hideous significance of its title. Review | Long before ‘Ghostbusters,’ fiction’s detectives were exploring the otherworldly 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

In “Isabelle Eberhardt,” the piano enters tentatively over initially faint, diffuse electronics, and the whole builds to an exuberant climax before dissolving into the placid, otherworldly theme of the Andantino from the A major Sonata. Shai Wosner and the Parker Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

This rookie drama has garnered buzz and acclaim as its first season heads toward an explosive climax. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Succession’ and ‘Like Father’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

It would also cue audiences to expect an unfinished story at the end of “Dune,” which rockets through a couple of higher-octane climaxes before landing on a somewhat muted denouement. Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Questions 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

James Cameron’s follow-up to Terminator 2 hails from an era when nuclear weapons could be casually detonated as a second supporting climax, and less-than-sensitive portrayals of Middle Eastern ethnicity were no barrier to box-office success. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Right at the climax of the movie she did, making it back in time for the credits. Adding to the Sweeter Moments of Life 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Now, as “Girls” climaxes in its last five episodes, I finally understand what I resisted so much. How I learned to stop worrying and love Lena Dunham after six seasons of hate-watching “Girls” 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

He floats luminous soft high notes and rises to resolute climaxes, but lower in its range, his voice fades. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

It is so shimmeringly coloured, so precisely made, so assured in the delivery of its climax that it always leaves my mood effervescent. My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

The climax of “Gallows Hill”—in which a girl’s classmates believe her to be a witch and gather on a hilltop to hang her—was so thrilling that I literally trembled. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Yet even if these things are so, the events leading up to the film's EastEnders-meets-Pulp Fiction climax get closer to farce than demonstrable fact. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

The climax of escape is indeed a triumph, with the McGloones meeting an end befitting their outrageous terribleness. Turning Myths and Fairy Tales on Their Heads 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Tatiana Thombtzen, the slim model who could have been Michael Jackson as a female, recalls that Pytka advised her not to kiss Michael at the climax of “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Bad 25: Spike Lee's Thrilling Tribute to the Michael Jackson Album 2012-08-31T18:02:26Z

The awful, almost unlistenable climax transmits a terror and desperation that surely still doesn't even come close. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z

They spend 10 days in a barren, mountainous landscape, their interactions filled with spite, passive aggression and conflicting motivations, leading to a wrenching climax. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Each member of Mary’s family has a distinct role in her persecution, and she and Eleanor try to evade them several times before a grisly climax. ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The story reaches a wrenching climax when Nina manages to lure Emma and her family to Nina’s vacation house in the south of France. Mysteries review: Paula Hawkins’s ‘The Girl on the Train” and Harriet Lane’s ‘Her’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The novel slows near the end, with a half-dozen plot threads left hanging, but explodes in a near-cinematic climax. Flawed detective takes on cult's 'Great Leader' 2011-11-09T23:04:04Z

A long orchestral climax builds slowly before Bluebeard grants the key to door No. 7, as Judith declares she now knows that the rumors of uxoricide are true. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

I wanted to make sure that Nile had a full backstory, had a full arc, that she was integral to the climax and to the plot. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

During some climaxes, this interpretation leans away from the straightforward, triumphal connotations that were fashionable in performances of symphonic Americana at the midcentury. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The new “Heathers” commits to what the critic Pauline Kael called the “sadistic gaudiness” of the original; it was supposed to climax with a prom-night slaughter, and a dénouement in the afterlife. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Her voice is too blunt to expand over the score’s long lines, and her crucial duets with Cendrillon are not ecstatic climaxes but trouble spots for both singers to negotiate rather than luxuriate in. Review: The Stepchild of Cinderella Operas Finally Makes It to the Met 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

But the climax of the show, the lighting of the cauldron, depends on whether Brazil's most famous athlete — soccer star Pele — appears. Rio Olympics opening ceremony highlights Brazil, environment 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

At the movie’s climax, his hand grasped by good-guy Robert Cummings, Fry dangles from the top of the Statue of Liberty before the seams of his jacket come undone and he falls to his death. Norman Lloyd: Hitchcock's Saboteur Is a World-Class Raconteur 2012-05-26T23:41:42Z

There was no sex in The Killing, the 20-part serial from Denmark which reached its retributive climax last night. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z

It’s just like Chekhov said: If somebody discovers a bomb shelter in the basement early in a novel, people will need to hasten inside it by the climax. A musician slips into a kind of hipster retirement in ‘Know Your Beholder’ 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

"Z's" reworked third act shifted from an all-out action spectacle to a taut, character-driven climax. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet from this very point tension builds over three more acts in a steady crescendo climaxing in massive bloodshed. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

The night I saw it, the play's climax was greeted with silent horror, but on some occasions the violence has apparently prompted whooping. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z

The film climaxed with the man shooting a flaming arrow into a pool of gasoline to kill the homicidal cat. 'Jurassic World' is Trevorrow Land 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And although one might argue that the climax seems a bit busy and rushed, Selbo’s suspenseful drama nonetheless challenges our expectations and respects our intelligence. A compelling experiment in 'Boxes' by Theatre West 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Once again, the awards season comes to its climax with my “Braddies” for the calendar year, a selection of my personal awards that exists entirely independently of Guardian Film’s best-of-the-year countdown. And the 2019 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw's film picks of the year 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It climaxed in 2007 when Spears shaved her head and attacked a relentless paparazzo's car with an umbrella. "Framing Britney Spears" makes viewers reflect on how everyone accepted the abusive sexism she faced 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Pursuing an active sex life with a long-term partner, while forgoing climax, suggests a desire to keep your feelings under wraps. I’ve faked every one of my orgasms over the past four years | Dear Mariella 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

And by the movie's incendiary climax, some tension. 'As Night Comes' a dour look at teen alienation 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Loving,” which will open theatrically in the heart of awards season in November, is an unconventional civil rights drama in that it doesn’t swell with amplified Hollywood moments or a heroic courtroom climax. The tender biracial love story 'Loving' lands at Cannes 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But just as all of this is building to a potentially fascinating climax — will Alice finally recognize that Dicky has failed her? 'The Fighter': Two parts punchy drama, one part formulaic sports movie 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z

The climax comes with more Wagner, as a reprise of the duet becomes a trio. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

This being TV, the events of the finale's climax probably negates the finer points of what built to Fred's reckoning in those dark woods. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, his coverage climaxed with a compelling live demonstration of just how fouled up the process was. ‘Oh! So frustrating indeed!’: Not even Wolf Blitzer could take the agony of waiting for Iowa 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The drama — staged as two plays — picks up the story 19 years after the climax of Rowling's last Potter novel. J.K. Rowling Swears Fans to Secrecy 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

He told me that when we have sex, it is all he can think about, but when he uses his hand, his mind is free, and he is therefore able to climax. My boyfriend has sexual anxiety and can only ejaculate through masturbation 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mark Grey’s keen sound design kept acoustic and electronic sounds and amplified voices mostly in fine balance, a handful of unruly distorted climaxes aside. Music Review: ?Klinghoffer? Returns, to Be Debated Anew 2011-06-17T22:32:42Z

Characters wear language on their clothing, and words cover walls; the look of the show propels the story as much as the score does toward the climax of Said’s burning need to write. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Even more striking is the Second Symphony, a tribute to Copernicus, which pivots from a brutally dissonant opening section to a liturgically chanting climax. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Guleghina plays by old-school diva rules: find a way to caress any statue onstage and always keep your arms outstretched at climaxes. Music Review: In ?Nabucco,? Maria Guleghina Plays the Diva - Review 2011-09-29T21:32:42Z

R. P. is the opposite, usually, delivering his lines in galloping succession, enunciating every word, limbs stampeding, pushing his audience right up to the edge before hitting the climax and slowing to a trot. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Lichtenstein and director Gari Jones pile on the atmosphere, cleverly lead us around a few forest false trails, and bring the bubbling violence to a dramatic climax. Darkness ? review 2011-08-28T14:34:57Z

“The apartment is extraordinary,” Mr. Goldberger said of the former residence, adding, “it is the apex, the architectural climax of the building.” Who Owns Helen Gurley Brown’s Legacy? 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

In 2021, the effect is a symphony that feels both long overdue and profoundly on time; that hangs around in your head for hours after its shocking climax. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The reason for this glorious creative climax was that Orwellian blurring between the satirical pigs in the series and the Westminster men and women. The Thick of It: the TV programme of 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:06Z

When they’re discovered — the Protector, of course, reads about it in the book — he is murdered and she, after a cannibalistic climax that suggests “Salome” and “Titus Andronicus,” kills herself. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Unexpected outbursts interrupt meditative interludes, culminating in a sardonic climax that eventually subsides to a whispered conclusion on double bass. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z

The film's startling climax comes at an otherwise innocuous Brannaman seminar in Chico, Calif., where he's confronted with a nearly feral orphan colt who has attacked and severely injured his owner. Pick of the week: Tales of the real-life horse whisperer 2011-06-17T12:01:00Z

Though Mr. Franco musters a single, perfect tear for the play’s tragic climax, I only came close to shedding one. Theater Review: James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-04-17T02:00:12Z

But the most moving part of the show is the climax when the actors relate their personal stories. Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker – review 2012-06-17T17:04:01Z

Like the party that serves as its climax, the retro teenage-friendship movie “Beats,” set in 1994 in Scotland, owes its appeal to mood and vibe. ‘Beats’ Review: A Last Hurrah, and a First Trip 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The climax, Rembrandt’s “Night Watch,” is a bigger-than-life-size group portrait of a militia company. European art comes alive when you learn the story behind it 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

At Yale University in the Walton centenary year of 2002, she presided with grace and majesty over a glittering festival which climaxed with the opening of a superb Walton manuscript exhibition at the Beinecke Library. William Walton obituary 2010-03-24T18:21:00Z

Sunny and Ray live in very different parts of their segregated Mississippi town, but their separate stories begin to intersect with greater frequency as the novel moves to a hard-hitting climax. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

His accessories are a clipboard and a stopwatch he uses to keep track of how long it takes the various parties to climax. | The Joylessness of Sex on TV 2013-05-28T13:30:29Z

Here, as What a Wonderful World begins to surge towards its bombastic climax, we meet a funny parrot who says silly things. Dolittle trailer – Robert Downey Jr talks his way into all sorts of trouble 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

The film, by Maya Stark and Adi Lavy, is built from an unusual mix of history, science and traditional Navajo culture, and its emotional climax pulls no punches. The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z

Though the final emphatic climax was achieved with suitable flourish, this was not a particularly illuminating interpretation. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z

Swelling slowly to a sudden climax, the music cut off sharply, then began again. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z

Halfway through the book, the goatherd stumbles across the ruins of a defunct civilisation, thereby reaching the novel's climax, after which each story is resolved one by one. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

And as the movie creeps toward its shockingly appropriate climax, the filmmakers’ grip on tone is almost uncanny. ‘Lamb’ Review: Oh No, Not My Baby! 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

It's a heady business that reaches its climax when the dreams of five people merge and conflict. Inception 2010-07-17T23:02:00Z

The children in the audience seemed most delighted by a number that climaxed in confetti cannonry. Review: ‘Annie’ and ‘Elf: The Musical’ Stay Kid-Friendly 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Much of the symphony’s seismic power is preserved in this recording — especially the second movement’s explosive climax, with coldly steady snare drums that conjure relentless gunfire. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

"The incident climaxed in a bizarre act of solidarity," Gavron writes in the voice of a Washington Post reporter whom he places at the scene. 'The Hilltop' views everyday absurdism in occupied territories 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The foreshadowing can be heavy-handed, and I’m agnostic about the book’s climax, which cribs from Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours.” ‘Neon in Daylight’ Lights Up Ambivalence With Shades of Didion and Others 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The music is often affecting and even openly illustrative: a huge ecstatic climax toward the end of the “Love and Joy” section, or fragmenting into bits of percussion in “Evil and Ignorance.” Music of our time: Washington Chorus offers monumental Glass symphony 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The climax of the first season hinges upon a savage irony that is too good to spoil, deliciously hidden in plain sight from the start. Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”: A Cautionary Tale for Those Who Believe in Comforting Lies 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Rossini creates a giant-sized double crescendo, twice building up from a moment of hushed awe to an almighty climax involving all of the principals plus chorus and orchestra. La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z

It travels far beyond its dramatic climax, aiming for an altar-call finale. 'Courageous': 4 officers deal with faith, family 2011-09-29T20:03:04Z

The pressure to climax can make a man less likely to do so. Does my boyfriend’s masturbation style prevent him orgasming during sex? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

The movement’s climax, depicting the opening of the gates of heaven, felt powerful and ecstatic, while the coda’s hushed lyricism offered a quiet benediction. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

At the film's climax an exquisite beast performs the piece the work is named after, raising his forelegs off the ground and springing along on his hind legs. Artist of the week 118: Salla Tykk? 2010-12-22T15:30:37Z

Its mounting climaxes dissolve, and its recurrent thematic material doesn’t really hold it together. Pianist Leon Fleisher brings energy, clarity to Prokofiev 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

As he approached the climax, a giant, gaudy blue-and-gold curtain, similar to the one used by the vaudeville troupe, descended behind him, apparently catching him by surprise. Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

It was the emotional climax of the play. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z

From the astonishing first act at the dawn of man to the hallucinatory, largely non-verbal climax, the film takes more risks than any 10 studio films made today. Clark Gregg's 5 favorite sci-fi movies 2012-05-03T16:56:09Z

Afterward I felt like cuddling, but Jane’s climax released her into energy. She hurried from bed to workroom. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Rick’s confession, centering on the detention of immigrants whose legal status is in dispute, builds steadily to a terrifying climax. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

And the orchestra shone again, with those remarkable strings upholding their lofty standard and the brasses — after a few early hitches — improving on their previous performances, in blazing climaxes. Music Review: Adding Another Layer to ?War Requiem? Story 2010-12-19T23:24:23Z

The film’s music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo’s defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax. Review: ‘The Apostate’ Chronicles a Rebellious Catholic 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

As a result, Paul’s mother is the only person in his life who doesn’t know he’s gay, and it’s that secret that drives Moonface toward its cathartic climax. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Adaptations, from this perspective, merely repackage the original, removing the stuffing in order to fit the mould of neat, two-act drama with all the exposition and climaxes in the right places. Gatsby gives theatre a novel twist 2010-12-02T17:21:00Z

But the Happy Birthday Mr President dress was the climax of this quest. ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

At its climax our heroes must escape from certain death deep underground and then, without ropes or handholds, somehow scale the 80 feet of a smooth-faced well that is rapidly filling with water. Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Reprising a role that sounds almost easy for him after his recent exertions as Wotan, Terfel musters stentorian power for the climaxes but sings many passages with a quiet, yearning tenderness. Review: Terfel shines in Zurich's odd 'Dutchman' 2012-12-10T11:31:05Z

This song is the best of his new material, a churning electronic odyssey that speeds towards its climax like a robot gone rogue. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Dressed in a black sequined suit and high platform heels, she thrashed on the stage like a 1970s arena rocker, as pyrotechnics announced the song’s climax. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Lulu's rebellion climaxed on a vacation in Russia. 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother': Raising kids the 'hyper-severe' Chinese way 2011-01-14T19:44:06Z

So to sum up: we spent over an hour on a half-baked plot with no proper climax or resolution, and the only main character who had any proper emotional journey was dreary Clara. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The big emotional climax is unearned and the all-important high concept is now a bit blurred. One Day 2011-08-24T14:16:51Z

Like the tsunami scene, it boasts deft editing and a killer climax. 'Hereafter' Review: Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

The song's climax is a giant hug of soaring strings and everything's-OK-it's-Christmas-now sentiments. New music: Coldplay ? Christmas Lights 2010-12-02T15:33:00Z

Mr. Boyd said after the group stormed through its turbulent climax. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

A quietly beautiful, meditative track that builds through sweet dissonance to a scrambling climax, it conjures a foggy coastal morning. The Westerlies blow into town to play with Dave Douglas 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

This movie climaxes with the usual car-speeding-to-Albert-Hall setup, and similar staples. ‘Military Wives’ Review: Unlikely Choir, Familiar Frictions 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

With naturalistic cinematography and sound design, the film builds on Isabel’s small, everyday ruptures into a climax that startles with its simplicity. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Especially when looking for a long, dramatic arc over the entire cycle, the most violent sounds should be kept in reserve for major climaxes. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The reviewer in The New York Times called it “the chop-choppingest climax, ever.” Film: Slashing Samurai: A Culture Savored 2011-02-12T03:43:01Z

So the vigilante role he assumes in the story’s climax doesn’t just lend itself to an enthralling action sequence, though it does that. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Even if the actual movie plays less like a climax and more like the outtakes that filmmakers sometimes roll after the credits. The Interview Review: Much Less Compelling Than the Events It Inspired 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Optimism is vindicated in a climax that I found both thrilling and frustrating. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Then, in the right hands, the pressures and stresses in August Wilson's "Fences" build, build and build, to a series of stunning climaxes, explosive and tender. Theater review: Seattle Rep's staging of 'Fences' hits it out of the park 2010-04-01T20:18:00Z

Whether the denouement satisfies you depends on your anticipation of bloodletting vs. a more thematically resonant climax. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Hankins' style is distinguished by precise slices and filigrees of movement building to intense climaxes. 2 young choreographers to watch in Seattle 2011-11-16T03:43:25Z

At its climax, Becky shares her fears with Darlene about her unexpected pregnancy and, for once, Darlene doesn’t fall back to her familiar position of making cracks about her sister’s stupidity. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a gripping, vividly realized homage that builds to a dazzling climax. Review | At the NSO season opener, Noseda leads a show of force and a showcase of talents 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The climax is a dramatic face-off with a hostage taker that manages to avoid hackneyed movie imagery while still showing the heroism of the job. | 'Newyorkland': ?Newyorkland? at Coil Festival Shows Police Work - Review 2012-01-17T22:42:59Z

Ms. Poerstel, continuously undercutting climaxes or resolutions, frames the piece with two solos. Review: Molly Poerstel Challenges Structure at Gibney Dance 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In 2009, the Brooklyn Academy brought its long association with the choreographer Merce Cunningham to a climax on his 90th birthday, giving the 90-minute world premiere of his “Nearly Ninety.” A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

For the record, he employed the optional cymbal crash at the climax of the slow movement, but not the optional triangle; those yearning for the full Wagnerian effect might have gone home disappointed. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in the village joins in the effort and the climax is an effort to build the highest ever cake. For The Record by Ellie Irving- review 2013-05-21T08:00:00Z

At the end of an hour they convene to shoot the climax with whatever passers-by they’ve attracted, then race back to the theater, shedding clothing as they run. Gob Squad Returns to the Public Theater 2012-01-03T23:39:34Z

In the first scene, their low panting drowns out dialogue, and you need every single line for this play to build to a convincing climax. Miss Julie 2010-06-18T21:30:00Z

He especially liked one dramatic sequence when he traps and kills a hyena — a moment that gives the filmmakers a suitable climax to the coming-of-age arc. Sometimes, Making a Documentary Can Take Years (and Years and Years…) 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

The climax is the stage at which the protagonist finds release from their seemingly inescapable predicament. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

And little things grated: The daughter never touched the drum until the climax. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

I don’t remember how most of these battles ended, but I do recall our chop-choppingest climax, ever. Film: Slashing Samurai: A Culture Savored 2011-02-12T03:43:01Z

As this thriller nears its climax, Mr. Vyleta’s plot twists also require an awful lot of exposition. Review: Dan Vyleta’s ‘Smoke’ Is a Supernatural Take on a Victorian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

But the climax -- a fifth columnist begging Erica to shoot him, to create a scapegoat for the attack and prevent her from being exposed as a resistance fighter -- was inspired. "V": How to fix ABC's struggling alien invasion series 2011-02-22T15:40:00Z

These series consistently feature highly emotional climaxes that encourage binge-watching. Netflix: Is mainstream content squeezing out the daring plots viewers originally fell for? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

As the film builds to its climax, Denis keeps viewers rapt as they become deeply invested in Sara and Jean as they hurt each other and take a good hard look at their relationship. Juliette Binoche is torn between two lovers in Claire Denis' potent "Both Sides of the Blade" 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

For “I Never Learnt to Share” he used looping equipment to create a wall of densely harmonized vocals, while “Retrograde” built to a thundering climax of fuzzy digital noise. James Blake plays it both ways at the Roxy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the closing solo Mr. Madoff forcefully irradiated a mass of conflicting movement information, bringing the work to an astounding climax; he was supercharged with self-discovery. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z

Like everything else in “Loving,” the movie’s climax doesn’t soar so much as whisper. ‘Tell the judge I love my wife’: The brilliant simplicity of ‘Loving’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The climax is a dance battle with everyone taking escalating turns in the center of the circle. Review: A Hip-Hop Take on Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The conductor Bertrand de Billy refined the score’s occasionally astringent harmonies and piquant climaxes. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

In a basement-laboratory climax that is close enough to The Human Centipede to make some viewers squirm and others giggle, Dragon Tattoo almost summons awe for the killer’s psycho-majesty. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z

"Ted" also happens to be sweeter than you might expect, despite the predictability of its formula, with a climax that will warm the heart of anyone with New England ties. Review: 'Ted': So cuddly, so wrong, so hilarious 2012-06-25T21:29:09Z

Kermit: Oddly, I don't consider that to be the climax of the movie. A Minute With: Kermit and Miss Piggy bicker about lines and love 2014-03-19T18:20:01Z

This novel is more of a pas de deux between Laney and Miss Baby, whose lives hurtle toward a climax that seems every bit as inevitable as it is brutal. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z

The movie builds to a shocking climax, even though the revelation of the bad guys makes immediate, sickening sense. Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

At the climax of the first volume, Jimmy has to figure out a way to kill his current host body, armed only with “nearly an entire square of toilet paper … double ply.” New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Worse, at the climax, gray machines slug it out on gray terrain under a gray sky. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

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. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

Faulkner confirms his rising-star status as he engages in intricate dialogues with the tenor saxophonist and pianist on Marsalis' "Whiplash" before climaxing with a riveting, powerhouse drum solo. Review: Drummer propels Branford Marsalis Quartet 2012-08-13T20:31:14Z

Newman repeats the line at the film's climax. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z

Many of the songs run along similar grooves, relying on laid-back melodies that gradually expand into soaring climaxes. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Then the climax is “a moment of reconciliation, consolidation and redemption.” At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

As he imagines her not only undoing her bikini top, but also confessing her long-held secret attraction to him — before kissing him — Brad works himself toward climax. The best movie masturbation scenes 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Hulu's new documentary "Aftershock" is devoted to examining the obscene disparity in maternal mortality rates that Black women face, but its climax centers on a smooth, problem-free delivery at a birthing center. "Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

There's no music to give audiences their cue, no dramatic climax. Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z

In Christian’s “playroom,” decorated like the upmarket gift shop of a Louisiana bordello, we finally get to the climax: six whacks of a riding crop, which he gently, carefully prepares her for. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The climax of “Der Doppelgänger” — the narrator’s vision of his stricken double — was played more for its “Twilight Zone” horror than for its existential depth. Music Review: The Austrian Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair at the Frick 2014-02-11T21:51:32Z

That is, until the last section built to a climax at once giddy and fearsome. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

That sets up a natural second-act climax: that Abby will hear his sour truth, in comedy form, and be forced to confront the dead-end that she and Matt may have reached. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z

The crisis Coalhouse sets in motion with his righteous vigilante movement generates plenty of suspense as the show crests to a violent climax. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The townspeople turn on Grimes as the opera spirals toward its tragic climax. A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s typical of Mr. Roberts that the work’s climax comes during a drum solo. Review: A Quieter, Virtual Fall for Dance, With Starriness Intact 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

A century on, the truly shocking thing about The Rite is still with us, right there at its climax. The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z

The production also makes dexterous and multifarious use of Monty’s cane, a derelict refrigerator and, for the climax, a thick suspended rope. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

In the 18th variation of the “Rhapsody,” the work’s aching climax, she began demurely and dreamily before adding muscle. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the final movement, the orchestra unleashed enormous reserves of sound in the climaxes, which were memorable also for the raw firepower of Adrian Bending’s timpani salvos. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z

He recorded the bulk of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” which provides the series’s climax, in 1971, but the album was released in 1972. Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

He could get stuck on a line and repeat it again and again, the pitch rising, the rhythm gaining in insistence, a crescendo crashing on a climax. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

Ms. Hynes stokes the suspense with a steady hand; a hilarious, drunken monologue by Mr. Buggy gives us a brief reprieve before the play moves to its tragic climax. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z

It’s nodding freely to everything from Fatal Attraction, to Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion, to The War of the Roses; all but tripping over itself in its rush to the climax. Gone Girl review – a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Car chases can climax by colliding with them. Clip joint: windows 2010-12-08T14:34:00Z

It’s an appealing mess, moving at a fever pitch until swelling to something like an enthused climax. Critics? Choice: New Music From Gorillaz, the Chieftains and Fenn O?Berg 2010-03-14T21:41:00Z

Here, a solo might begin a piece, rather than define its middle peak or occur at a climax. Music Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2014-03-02T21:26:07Z

At the novel’s climax, the snakes both metaphorical and literal seem poised to destroy this backwoods Eden. A Contemporary Feminist Spin on the Traditional Pioneer Novel 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

As time goes on and you start to have anxiety-free, highly arousing experiences, gently and seductively encourage him to climax using his hand incrementally closer and closer to your vagina. My boyfriend has sexual anxiety and can only ejaculate through masturbation 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Along with the usual attractions, this latest entry offers an intricately braided plot and a near apocalyptic climax. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

At the book’s emotional climax, Sophie, alone in her bedroom, has a revelation: “God, if I am rabid, I am equal to what is outside.” Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

After a savage climax, a slow, occasionally discursive string threnody takes over, during which the brass intrusions gradually lose some ferocity and the music moves towards a tentative nobility. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z

This scene is only the first of many very interesting and cleverly linked events that lead to a nail-biting climax. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - review 2012-07-13T14:00:00Z

That’s enough for Joelle to fashion a tidy, consistently smart story that you might expect to climax with the notorious Crown Heights riots. Review | The new comedy ‘Trayf’ at Theater J is Zalmy and Shmuel’s excellent adventure 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Sinaisky conveys the work's impacted grandeur and its cast-iron structural integrity very well indeed, and the Malmö orchestra rises to the challenge of its great climaxes most impressively. Schmidt: Symphony No 4; Variations on a Hussar's Song ? review 2010-12-02T22:45:00Z

The first movement is a glorious hymn, and those climaxes gradually grew in intensity. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Their schedule of events climaxes on April 26 with the annual “Extravaganza,” a celebration of all things Victorian at the charming Old Stone House of Brooklyn. 5 Ways to Time-Travel (and Party) in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“All these stories hinge on a climax where the reveal is a threat to the relationship, but it’s not so horrible that it can’t be overcome,” Mernit says. Perspective | ‘Working Girl,’ and why we love the impostor rom-com 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Drucker, on second violin, opened “Days” with a syncopated ostinato; the other players, initially floating over its clockwork regularity, were swept into lockstep at the movement’s climax. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z

At the time, colors practically bounced off the walls in the lively acoustic; climaxes, perhaps overshot, took on a fuzzy quality. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

With his fourth film as director and actor, “The Nutty Professor,” Mr. Lewis enjoyed a climax in his career, one he was never able to repeat. Why France Understood Jerry Lewis as America Never Did 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In all, this episode turned the wheel, with threads finally being stitched into place, all the pieces being aligned, and the final gilding of the story ready for the burn to the explosive climax. 'Arya should skewer Ed Sheeran': your verdict on the new Game of Thrones 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven was strangely mellow and often tentative, with lovely moments of delicacy and introspection, but few grand climaxes and little excitement. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress

It’s a long crescendo, then it’s an epic climax, then it’s a diminuendo. The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

It climaxed a tense scene between Walt and Skyler, and as usual they shot several takes, varying wording, tone, body language. How Walter White Became the One Who Knocks 2013-09-30T00:25:43Z

But the banal choreography, here and elsewhere, repeats itself with such frequency that even the lovers’ duets are stunted by monotonous embraces and lifts that climax, recede and then start over again. Dance Review: Ballet Preljocaj’s ‘Snow White’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-04-24T21:55:25Z

If Heggie’s scene transitions and climaxes tend to blare, he gives voices ample room to take flight. Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z

The, um, climax of Sunday's episode found Sasha doing background research by mounting Hank, showing off her downy rump and oft-marveled-over great tits -- her description, quite accurate -- and then slugging him in the face repeatedly. "Californication's" atrocious masculine fantasy 2011-01-10T16:30:00Z

She concluded with Liszt’s version of Isolde’s “Liebestod” from Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” slowly building tension in the opening measures and increasing to a simmering climax. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z

Waves of musical color characterize Bedford's "Outblaze the Sky," with sudden increases in intensity from one instrument or another, the whole leading to a climax. British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z

As Waldheim’s victory looms, the younger man studies the history of Nazism in Austria and, newly armed, he forces the professor into a truth-telling climax. Piano lessons with a side of philosophical sparring 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The plunging motifs of Tomeka Reid’s “Volpaning” and the aggressive energy of its climax, seem to depict a flying object finding its preferred momentum only as its journey is concluding. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Speaking of trains, in McKeon’s script the story’s tragic climax is conveyed in soliloquy by the agitated, drug-impaired and hopeless Anna. Love’s tragedies, triumphs in Book-It’s ‘Anna Karenina’ | Theater review 2013-02-14T02:15:42Z

The climax will be a 24-hour marathon concert, but until then, “Density” is unfolding incrementally, with Chase as the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe. Review: ‘Density’ Keeps Expanding the Flute’s Universe 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

At the song's climax, his triumphant exclamation is "my blood flows harshly". Hidden treasures: The Microphones – The Glow Pt 2 2013-03-12T15:45:19Z

Kent Tritle played valiantly on a surrogate, the available electronic organ, producing an agreeable murmur but hardly the grand climaxes called for. Music Review: Philharmonic?s French Flavors With Tangy Seasoning 2010-06-04T22:36:00Z

The bloody climax of nationalism that followed makes Kafka’s story not a little poignant: he found a true home neither in life nor in death. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

But after 170 pages of relentless, knowing brittleness, this climax has the feeling of a deathbed conversion to some older model self. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

The orchestra rose to powerful climaxes, but in quieter, conversational moments he held the sound carefully below the singers. Opera Review: ?Khovanshchina? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-02-28T16:32:53Z

“Now it’s gone, and I am incomplete,” he sings, although the ambivalent lyrics are somewhat belied by the somewhat overripe balletic pas de deux the men perform at the climax of the song. Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

Her climax comes at the direct expense of his pain, when the massager ends up aggressively vibrating against his crotch, putting him out of commission for future games. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

He has no idea there's a problem and I can't tell him that I've faked nearly a decade of climaxes with him. I never have an orgasm and have been faking it for 10 years 2011-02-11T09:13:00Z

The drum roll of publicity sounded on the red carpet here at the Grand Palais is meant to reach its climax on the red carpet next Oscar night. Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples 2012-05-17T21:08:25Z

In the climax of the Windsor Park scene, Verdi’s Falstaff is supposed to be pinched and poked by townspeople pretending to be goblins. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z

Nor did the Beatles seem to gussy themselves up much for their last public appearance on a London rooftop — the climax of “Get Back.” Glyn Johns Doesn’t Get Why People Like His Look in ‘Get Back’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The musical climax takes place during one of the Auschwitz scenes. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

On its way to a brutal climax in which two major characters are killed, “A Hazard of New Fortunes” smashes teacups right and left. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The climax of all this sees Gio reduced to a figure of desperation, inexplicably facing his meta-death at the hands – and rocket launcher – of Sue Barker. The Hard Sell: Go Compare 2012-07-13T23:10:46Z

Brody had reached his dramatic climax in last season's finale deep within the bunker of the State Department. Rewind TV: Homeland; Wonderland: I Was Once a Beauty Queen – review 2012-10-13T23:06:22Z

The singer shaped his set well, rising to a climax with the clipped, scissored energy of "Regalito" and the hard burn of "Me Enamora." Colombian superstar Juanes kicks off world tour in Seattle 2011-03-11T20:13:03Z

As multi-dimensional as they were in ‘Become Ocean,’ the ensemble sounded surprisingly thin and light while playing the Debussy, the orchestral blend and grand climaxes two-dimensional. What the critics said about Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T20:28:09Z

The orchestra certainly sounded lush and rich, though in the Mahler, and also Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony on Thursday night, Mr. Nelsons sometimes went for huge climaxes that turned blaring and raw. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

This new garden, then, is the climax of the Botanical Garden’s ambitious projects to remake itself. Critic’s Notebook: New Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden 2013-05-02T22:27:06Z

It's not perfect: the sound of the chorus lacks clarity and definition at the climaxes, and some of the solo contributions are uneven. Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust ? review 2011-02-17T22:00:00Z

The event climaxed with Casey performing Tap Your Troubles Away from Mack and Mabel, accompanied by 14 dancers in top hats and spats. MacFarlane croons Broadway tunes 2012-08-28T08:24:20Z

There’s no big climax to speak of; what you hear is the sound of musicians in deep communication, listening and feeling as they go. Mariah Carey Calls for Action, and 12 More New Songs 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's a climax worthy of the tribute thread running through "Kung Fu Killer." 'Kung Fu Killer' is standard issue but kicks it up with cameos 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The graffiti, which includes, "Don't eat the chicken," is pretty amusing, but even the film's climax makes a pointed commentary. Riz Ahmed rapping and a dark comedy about prison: A look at the Oscar-nominated live action shorts 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Yet at the climax of this vocal tour de force, which Ms. Voigt sang with steely toned vehemence and vulnerability, she looked a little comic getting on her mechanical steed. Music Review: Robert Lepage?s ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met ? Review 2012-01-28T21:28:42Z

At the climax of that work, the performers yanked open the wooden cube’s canopy, spilling a supply of sunflower seeds to the ground. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Without meaning to do so, he pulls a number of characters — cops, powerful villains, Choi’s own gang of vulnerable-yet-deadly, deaf-mute foot soldiers — inexorably into “Drug War’s” 15-minute-long climax of bloodshed and mayhem. ‘Drug War’: A compelling cops and gangsters crime drama 2013-08-08T19:32:54Z

The moment when Kattrin defies her mother and begins beating a drum to warn a nearby town of an imminent attack brings this entirely engrossing production to a hair-raising, then heartbreaking climax. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

That makes the possibility at the climax of the third season's finale — that Kendall, Shiv and Roman could put aside their differences and work together to enact a full coup — so enthralling. In the "Succession" season 3 finale, sibling unity arrives too late to save the Roy kids from Daddy 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The velocity intensifies in an exhilarating climax, as the indefatigable team — and they are fabulous — increasingly plays with veering off-center. Review: On Faye Driscoll’s Life Raft, Spinning Toward the Unknown 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the finale, just before the climax, as a ballad drifts in from the lantern-lit party, fifteen remarkable seconds pass. The Cathartic Finale of “Big Little Lies” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

“From Hell” has Gull experiencing a vision of the late twentieth century at the climax of his murderous spree. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

A queasy romance follows, treading a line between grim exploitation and surreal fairytale, one that reaches its climax with one of the strangest, least comfortable sex scenes in recent memory. Life on fast forward 2012-06-22T23:00:00Z

It culminates in a confrontation in a bell tower that might well have left traces on the climax of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” DVDs: Douglas Sirk Without Tears 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Then the climax, in which the person, revealed to be a woman in a beanie, refocuses her bleary eyes as the music reaches a buzzing, droning peak. New band of the day – Angel Haze (No 1,293) 2012-06-22T08:00:00Z

This is an existential prison-break movie that cuts deep and, at its earned, ecstatic climax, soars high. Danny Boyle's 127 Hours: An Existential Great Escape 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

But the climaxes, satisfying and riotous as they may be, are not the final destination; even after the climactic-seeming tutti riffs in “The Shedding of Landscapes” comes a restive percussive section. Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The competition show was filmed before Michaels' medical emergencies but is nearing the climax of its broadcast run, with the singer still in the running to win. Bret Michaels announces May 28 comeback gig 2010-05-14T22:31:00Z

The climax of the opera comes with Orfeo’s hypnotic song when he attempts to placate Charon, the boatman at the river to the underworld, and pleads for permission to cross. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

The climax came at the village of Lauterbrunnen, stunningly set in a deep gorge lined with waterfalls, one of which Byron described as “the tail of a white horse streaming in the wind.” Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

I heard a similar touch in a Mahler Four that Mäkelä conducted last year in Munich; there, the cool performance didn’t deliver on the symphony’s heavenly climax. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

When we do have sex, he doesn’t seem to be able to climax, which isn’t something I have encountered before. My boyfriend can't climax through vaginal sex 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is derivative, being very indebted to Alan Ball's script for American Beauty both in the general situation and the multiple stranded narrative pile-up climax. Breathe In – review 2013-07-18T20:35:00Z

It culminated in a raucous, emotional and rhythmically propulsive climax, with Mr. O Lionaird declaring, “I would be near death.” Music Review: Crash Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-20T20:49:46Z

The text and choreography and stage direction have been shuffled and tightened without major additions or deletions; the show builds to a real dramatic climax and poignant denouement. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z

The climax feels rushed and muted, the resolution a little pat. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Catherine Malfitano, a ferocious Salome and Tosca whose voice retains its penetrating edge, handles the assignment with dignity and conviction, flaring at times to feverish climaxes. Music Review: ‘The Martyrs,’ at the Dicapo Opera Theater 2012-11-13T23:53:31Z

The pleasant negative inconsequence of Campion makes a dramatic contrast with the undercurrent of suspicion and fear that grows to a climax – particularly in Flowers for the Judge. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z

She finds her voice during the climax of the action, though her revelations would be more satisfying if we’d been offered earlier hints about her outlook. Tales on Two Wheels: Cycling in Fact and Fiction 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Then there’s the sharing of secret revelations with the audience that nobody else in the play knows about; and turning an inane-seeming line into a haunting climax that brings down the curtain via lighting cues. Review: In ‘Oh Hello,’ Sour and Crotchety Old Men at Their Best 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

But after a long, slow build up, the suspenseful climax is at least well-handled. This week's new films 2011-01-01T00:05:36Z

Toby Spence shines in his title-role debut, unlocking new vocal energy and soaring above the orchestra as the work reaches its climax. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

The play’s climax shoehorns all the elements of the story into a farcical scene that seems a little forced, funny though it is. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

The climax builds brilliantly, with Dafoe's craggy face gradually becoming part of the rocks and trees, his sinewy, prowling presence increasingly animalistic and instinctual. The Hunter – review 2012-07-07T23:05:30Z

For this climax of old-fashioned operatic thrills, they weren’t even standing on the machine — as if they existed outside Mr. Lepage’s production entirely. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Air + Style Los Angeles, though, hit its unfortunate climax near the end of that first day, with masses of disappointed Lamar fans chanting the vulgar equivalent of "Screw this stuff!" Kendrick Lamar blasts Air + Style sound system, cuts off set early 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Setting a new text by the poet Tracy K. Smith, Thompson also reveled in sumptuous, worried strings, and gave Costanzo mellow, narrative vocal lines that surge into piercing climaxes. Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

At the climax, Henry undergoes the indignity of urinating on the duvet while dressed in his mother's underwear. That Face 2010-07-07T21:01:00Z

The show’s climax in particular features a crowded, crazed multi-character scene veering close to farce. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

In the first movement, these references form the centre of the first big climax, building with an irreverent glissando to a cacophony that dissolves to leave only a sparse chord. Marc-André Hamelin – review 2013-06-28T15:45:01Z

But there were also moments of fantastic warmth in both operas; at his best, Corti draws elegantly unadorned phrases that surge within simple contours and really blossom at their climaxes. Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci – review 2012-06-06T17:31:41Z

And while I say there was little climax or closure, there was a return to a pattern. The Americans Watch: The Evil Empire Strikes Home 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Just be forewarned: After enduring the horror and screwball absurdities of the novel’s extended grand and bloody climax, readers may well feel that they, like IQ himself, need a restorative break. Review | Joe Ide’s IQ series continues with the idiosyncratic marvel ‘Smoke’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Even so, the episode’s climax has a gross-out splendor that equals or exceeds that of De Palma’s , and is parsecs beyond what Peirce summoned for the remake. Carrie: A Remake Not Worth the Blood or Bother 2013-10-18T21:34:26Z

He and his pals, feral lost boys of the Southern California dream, widen the rift between Alison and Lily and propel the movie toward a violent, ugly climax. Movie Review: ‘Little Birds,’ First Film by Elgin James 2012-08-29T01:16:25Z

"American Idol" reaches its climax in May when viewers will crown the next star and he or she wins a recording contract. Lacey Brown out, Urban survives on "American Idol" 2010-03-18T05:35:00Z

Unraveling the knots in the climax — which insists that more traditional scares pale beside the horrors of a bad divorce — should be left to those who care. | 'Dream House': ?Dream House,? With Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz in - Review 2011-09-30T23:03:07Z

At the climax of the movie, instead of hearing the marchers singing "We Shall Overcome," we hear a very moving, contemporary piece. Director Ava DuVernay populates 'Selma' with real people and events 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Sure, its narrative climax features his character being vaporized by a rocket-propelled grenade. The Disconnect of ‘The Interview’ 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Of course that 1962 film ends with a violent climax and its damaged American protagonist dead. ‘Homeland’ Returns for Second Season on Showtime 2012-09-12T14:05:13Z

The only question is if the film will keep the dream alive until it arrives at Harvey Weinstein’s White House: the Motion Picture Academy stage at the climax of Oscar night. The Butler Holds Serve, Cans Kick-Ass 2 and Terminates Jobs 2013-08-18T19:20:50Z

There are episodes with gossamer textures and others with pumped-up, frenzied climaxes. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

“The Resisters” might be the only dystopian novel whose climax involves a tense, high-stakes baseball game. The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Gotye’s arrangement is understated and coy—mirroring the lyrics’ own unremarkable but arresting realization and climax. Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z

Klein’s 1947 poem “The Cripples,” about French Catholic worshippers at St. Joseph’s Oratory, which I quoted from earlier, reaches this climax: Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Since June, there has been drama but no climax. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the climax — an onslaught of slashing, hard-edged chords — the orchestra played with fearless, grating power. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z

Suddenly Anthony has more than his father to worry about, and the adversity just keeps piling up, building to a ridiculously improbable climax. Review: In ‘Wolves,’ a High School Athlete Can’t Outrun Clichés 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Its climax depicts an air battle between the Albatross, the piratical Robur’s flying machine, and a huge, state-of-the art balloon called the Go-Ahead. He photographed Victor Hugo and Jules Verne — now the spotlight is on him 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Did Bland, on her last time in bed with Wells, come to "a genuine, uncontrollable climax, crying out in surprise and joy"? A Man of Parts by David Lodge ? review 2011-04-10T02:30:01Z

Vox Lux, like A Star is Born, climaxes with a comeback concert: a full, seamless, blaring half-hour set that Portman barks and dances through with jaw-dropping elan. Pop goes the fantasy: how Vox Lux shows the darker side of music 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Suspension of disbelief is always needed with Adamsberg, but in this case a deus ex machina at the book's climax may be too much even for fans. Crime fiction: a new Ian Rankin hero and nightmares from Joyce Carol Oates 2011-11-09T22:55:06Z

And, when it comes to the climax, plausibility flies out of the window: since the landlord's daughter is a partial witness to their behaviour, one feels they would not escape legal sanctions quite so lightly. Posh 2010-04-16T00:58:00Z

Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it’s that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart.” ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers Review 'Three Sisters' 2011-02-07T13:00:29Z

He starts off solid, but when he's supposed to hit the sweet spot of a song, the climax if you will, he's just ordinary. In the midst of music this bewildered 'American Idol' blogger lost his 'Twain' of thought ... 2010-04-28T14:51:00Z

The most incredible bit for me is this ascending line in the right hand, the scales after the climax. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

This is partly because its downtown theater is more suited to a story that reaches its climax in a trendy club on Lafayette Street. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Murder Ballad’ 2013-05-23T02:00:01Z

People who have seen “Sweat” will recognize him as one of the perpetrators of a heinous attack on a Colombian American busboy at the climax of that play, also set in Reading. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The climax, so to speak, is a murky swirl of limbs under hazy red light, a finish that demonstrates the limits of Noé’s immersive method. ‘Climax’ Review: A Party That Assaults the Senses and Scrambles the Brain 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In conversation, Lin and Morgan have both described this movie as essentially the second half of the previous film, which actually does explain why the first half drags while the final climax rocks. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Having built tension by nicely guiding viewers smoothly through Christian’s courtship of Ana, Taylor-Johnson has little to deliver as a climax, erotic or dramatic. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“They might tell themselves, ‘I need to build an opera, therefore the songs must be in Italian, my climax has to look a certain way, my libretto has to sound a this way.’” A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality. Anna Christie ? review 2011-08-09T22:12:00Z

A sophisticated conceptual work of art that reflects the energy, desire and crazy craving for climax of an audience and in some ways is the audience itself, turned into music, and play? Paul Morley meets Swedish House Mafia 2010-05-28T12:20:00Z

While the plot gets increasingly outlandish as it hurtles towards its climax, many of the book's best moments describe quiet, humdrum events. The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth – review 2013-01-26T18:00:01Z

"It's metaphor built on metaphor built on metaphor … The tragic climax of the story comes when what's going on in the outside world finally impinges on this bubble of imperialist nonsense." Found: JG Farrell a worthy winner for the Lost Booker 2010-05-19T19:37:00Z

Even the other characters realize that Cassie is undergoing a transformation and that there is something off about her: At the climax of Season 2 she no longer seems to belong. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Boss gives her too little to work with: a hackneyed backstory and a string of slapstick gags that lead to an all too predictable climax and denouement. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

It's a suitably theatric climax, perhaps, but in some ways disappointing that a band have resorted to pulling in "star" names. My Chemical Romance bring the theatrics to Reading festival 2011 2011-08-27T11:30:00Z

His final decision on whether to tell provides the movie's climax. 'Little Accidents' mines small-town tragedy with Gothic grit 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The need to readjust plotlines to fit into significantly shorter episodes was mirrored by the need for a season-ending climax at what represented the halfway point of the story. Television: Comparing ?The Killing? to the Show ?Forbrydelsen? 2012-03-28T18:16:21Z

And the climax, involving the identity of the elusive Edge, took me completely by surprise. Review: 'Remember Me' a mind-blowing head trip 2013-06-06T14:12:08Z

So what does Joe envisage will be the knock-on effect for the region's creative arts industry once the project reaches its climax? Watch out north eastern England - Space Invasion is imminent 2012-07-18T07:32:32Z

It is when Margot requests a simple burger and fries – a meal a world away from Slowick's intellectually challenging haute cuisine – that "The Menu" boils over into its dramatic climax. "The Menu": Ralph Fiennes’ new film shows why restaurants are a ripe setting for horror 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

Next comes a carefully constructed and splendid love scene, crafted to highlight the pleasure Arabella and David take in each other's bodies, climaxing with her on top, penetrating him. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Near the climax, she finally gets to strut her stuff musically. "Country Strong" a Nashville nightmare 2010-12-22T23:47:51Z

Perhaps the climax will be a battle royal in New York, a bit like Avengers: Endgame, only, instead of the Infinity Gauntlet, someone will be grabbing desperately at a USB drive. Mr Robot: from show of the zeitgeist to TV's biggest disappointment 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

The show climaxed with Thompson taking a large elk with one rifle shot from about 50 yards. 3 Mont. tribal leaders indicted in singers' hunts 2013-01-09T04:01:05Z

The climax of the list, at the end of the second stanza, shows us the lack of moral transformation in the survivors – "we" who've witnessed courage and suffering. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z

In the wickedly hilarious climax of the novel, the Bunnies show up to their last class bruised, bleeding, and ready, finally, to get real. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Yet nothing adds up and the climax is a fizzle that resorts to CGI instead of any conflict resolution. "Big Bang" a disappointment for Banderas fans 2011-05-12T22:25:35Z

The film was partially financed by the WWE, so perhaps it's fitting that "Dead Man Down" should climax with the automotive equivalent of a body slam. Review: 'Dead Man Down' is lifeless, ludicrous 2013-03-07T21:00:11Z

Its masterful climax is a sudden torrent of prop lights, which shatter on the floor at the precise moment that Starlite, in a kind of full-body rebellion against gravity, departs from it. Francis and the Lights, Pop Star Interrupted 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It would have been a powerful climax to a better action movie, but feels like a cheap geek-show gimmick here. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the revelations of Sandison and other key characters as the story reaches its climax provide ample reward. Ivan Doig's 'Work Song' is epic novel of miners, strikes and hardship 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z

Its climax is built around an arresting image of an animal in distress, one of Hunt’s many haunting visions. Review: ‘The Dark Dark,’ Beguiling Tales of Women in Metamorphosis 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Aldridge’s opinion: “I will venture to say that there is not a play on the stage with a more powerful climax.” Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

An episode at the waterfall where Syd and his crew as well as Sari and the kids contend with a narrow ledge, two baby cubs and bad CGI hardly feels like the big, exciting climax. Predictable "Cocaine Bear" never achieves the level of dumb fun to elicit laughs – not even a snort 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The furious fiddling climaxes, and a title flashes on the screen: . Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Sundance Sensation Wins Cheers at Cannes 2012-05-18T20:01:44Z

Everything leads up to a wild, near-risible climax of a melodramatic, soap operatic sort, something predicated, if not dictated, by the hard-driving, hysterical tone. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z

The episode's climax suggested that he might have been critically wounded, or at least incapacitated for a while, by the poison. Tony Soprano, Al Swearengen, Vic Mackey, Gus Fring 2011-09-19T14:20:00Z

Many adventures follow but, with a daring that most writers would shrink from, Burroughs brings the novel to a climax in, of all places, Wisconsin. Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

The climaxes in this piece, though relatively few, are particular. Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z

As the event reached its climax, the ubiquitous opening notes of a guaranteed crowd pleaser — “Work,” by Rihanna, featuring Drake — vibrated through the room. PartyNextDoor Is Finding His Voice, and a Bigger Spotlight 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Its delivery leads to her infamous necrophiliac behaviour at the opera's climax that would become the talk of European cafe society. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

The novel’s pulpy action climax at the World’s Fair, meanwhile, is unconvincing, as its outcome relies on the credulity-straining gullibility of security officials. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

A complete surrender by the Japanese would supply a particularly dramatic climax for Season 4. ArtsBeat: 'Whale Wars' Waits on Japanese Government 2011-02-17T20:21:52Z

Ninety minutes are full of acts and climaxes, so where is the depth, where is the place to tell a story with image and sound? Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

After the rivalry reached its climax with the Sox’s World Series win in 2004, the 19 games between them seemed less like a battle of enemies and more like a version of trench warfare. Yankees, Red Sox prove they have the most annoying rivalry with cheating allegations 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The second movement climaxed in the piano’s softly conclusive, consoling line, setting off a spiral of light calligraphy in the cello — a passage of superbly unified playing. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The end result is a fascinating mix of contemplative ambience and childlike wonder, building up to the intensifying polyrhythms at its thunderous climax. How a Digital Rabbit Hole Gave Midori Takada’s 1983 Album a Second Life 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

He is erotically responsive to you, but he has to bypass his anxiety in order to achieve climax – and that’s not easy for him. My boyfriend has sex in silence – is that normal? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

At the opera’s climax, a huge chorus sings that “the glory of Russia shall never be tarnished.” A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

They provide the prelude to the film's violent climax the way the debates over abolition were the curtain-raiser for the civil war. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z

The climax of Le Pétomane’s performance was a stirring rendition of “La Marseillaise” that brought down the house. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z

As the tension builds to its climax, the film manifests what the critic Arthur Vesselo called Hitchcock's mastery of contrast, "balancing the normal against the abnormal, slowness against speed, sound against silence, humour against terror". Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z

And the opera's climax comes when she publicly humiliates the princess by pointing at her while declaiming a speech from Racine's "Phedre" that talks of a bold-faced, brazen woman. Review: 'Adriana' a treat at Covent Garden 2010-12-05T12:31:00Z

With these three weird brother-widows all assembled, the stage is set for the novel's climax. Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z

At 3:18 there is this huge orchestral climax and the violin is out of the picture for a bit. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Though he whipped up the two climaxes hard, especially the second one, overall Dudamel was in no hurry and the haunting opening returned peacefully enough at the close. Night of connections, musical and personal, for Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Phil 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The narrative is cunningly paced for an unpredictably piercing climax. Ballet Black ? review 2011-02-10T17:29:30Z

What would, in a lesser book, be a heroic climax—repenting mother reclaims lost child—Lessing writes as plainly horrifying. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

All in all, the performance seemed weighted towards rage rather than despair, reaching a disturbing climax with Maltman's articulate yet self-lacerating account of Der Doppelgänger. Christopher Maltman/Graham Johnson 2010-04-22T20:50:00Z

This 1960 picture, long considered lost, and newly restored courtesy of the bold indie distributor Cinelicious Pics, is a sex-crime thriller that teeters on the edge of morbidity before its galvanic climax. Review: Once Lost, ‘Private Property’ Is a Genuine Rediscovery 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The sale, a timed online auction that reaches its climax at 1pm on Thursday, is not at Becker’s instigation; all proceeds go to his creditors. Bizarre Becker: Sad and turbulent saga of a fallen tennis champion 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was charming to see a few of the children in the Boychoir joining in so heartily for the big fortissimo climaxes. Review: Tanglewood Orchestra Celebrating Its 75th 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Oundjian's conducting was businesslike and built some ringing climaxes, but generally lacked finesse: the Vltava's waters were slow-moving, the fortress walls at Tabor lightweight. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-03-24T13:53:47Z

Let’s get this out of the way: The highlight of David Anzuelo’s new play, “Día y Noche,” is a wild, riotously funny sex scene that brings Act 1 to, well, a climax. Review: In ‘Día y Noche,’ Opposites Intertwine 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Some walking parades and streetcar-riding groups touch off Carnival revelry, which climaxes on Fat Tuesday — Feb. 25 of this year. Countdown to Mardi Gras: This year, 7 weeks of festivities 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

It is likely the first Broadway musical in history whose bloody climax takes place to Huey Lewis and the News’ “Hip to Be Square.” Don’t You Forget About Me: The Formerly Irredeemable ’80s Return 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The last few chapters build to a devastating climax, and as a reader you are caught in the undertow. The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait – review 2013-04-13T10:31:01Z

The sound at some of the climaxes, especially in the opening poem, Vyšehrad, is decidedly congested. Smetana: Ma Vlast 2010-10-14T22:50:00Z

And abruptly we are here: the critical moment, the biographical climax of Simon's story. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z

This was the year that our family's long-running sweet potato casserole feud finally reached its blatant climax. The sweet potato casserole feud that almost imploded Thanksgiving 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

So vivid and complex is this experience that for many veterans it becomes the emotional climax of a lifetime. ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Just as certain aspects of Moravia’s novella recall Louis Malle’s film “Murmur of the Heart,” so its climax echoes the ironic last chapter of Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education.” ‘Agostino,’ by Alberto Moravia

That climax comes about halfway through the 17-minute piece, which loses some urgency after, with droning tidal motions continuing to rise and fall, even if the colors in Martinaityte’s orchestral writing remain intriguingly agitated. Review: Another Week, Another Philharmonic Podium Candidate 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

And the repeated entreaties to the house to sing along and the haunting a cappella string of excerpts at the climax complete a fairly remarkable portrait. Review: 'Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin' at the Geffen Playhouse 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

But I will most remember the way Ms. Frank reached the climaxes of phrases with an unlikely, perfect combination of peacefulness and intensity. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z

But Mr. Tully is less interested in climax than in reconstructing teen-movie formula through a deeply personal lens. ‘Ping Pong Summer,’ Michael Tully’s Nostalgic Comedy 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because of the inconvenience of history — the two never met — we are denied a direct confrontation, and with it a satisfactory climax. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

The writers of "Mad Men" are fantastic at this dramatic reverb, so beautifully rendered last week with a mirroring of worlds that climaxed in Peggy and Pete choosing opposite paths in life. "Mad Men" recap: Honor before reason 2010-08-23T13:30:00Z

Slight and sweet, and without much of an edge, “Yes, God, Yes” uses the pursuit of climax as an opportunity to take a gentle dig at religious humbug and holier-than-thou hypocrisy. ‘Yes, God, Yes’ Review: Sin and Sensuality 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Let Me In closes the album in darkly shimmering style, the epic climax to 43 minutes of discoid posturing and deathless yearning. New band of the day ? No 1,086: Class Actress 2011-08-17T16:54:00Z

He brings the first act to an electrifying climax with his powerful rendering of “Soliloquy,” in which Billy dreams of the future life of the child he has just learned Julie is expecting. Review: ‘Carousel,’ a Broadway Turn at Lyric Opera of Chicago 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The novel’s shocking climax implies that, in their hearts, even the most decent of Neapolitans embrace the bloody, cynical values of the Camorra. Natural Born Killers: Italy’s ‘Baby Gangs’ Blast Through Roberto Saviano’s Debut Novel 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The climax of the so-called confrontation was an enigmatic staring contest which, after a few minutes, ended of its own accord. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Several of the actors role-double in order to portray the lunatics that Ferdinand dispatches to scare his sister as the tale approaches its climax. ‘Duchess of Malfi’ at Capital Fringe: A brisk tale of revenge

His control of pulse and transition, his summoning of tonal resources, were so firm that the opening Andante movement built inexorably to a catastrophic climax. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z

Though some of these seven pieces uncoil climaxes of  savagery, there is a delicacy and refinement to much of the orchestral writing that sometimes recalls Dutilleux or other French composers of an earlier 20th-century generation. Dusapin: Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-04-15T21:30:00Z

The album’s first single, “Love So Soft,” sets the tone — it’s a swaggering track packed with girl-gang backup vocals and horn blasts that climaxes with a blistering high note. Kelly Clarkson Is Nobody’s Puppet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Hints of growing tension in the duo's sometimes pathological bond — long-sustained, in part, by a violent disdain for outsiders — slowly gather to a stunning climax. 'Disco Pigs': Creepy, codependent teens' twisted road to adulthood 2012-09-26T18:43:03Z

Though the choreography hits the music’s big climaxes, it is often bizarrely unmusical: big traveling lifts kept recurring to quiet passages in the score, and so on. Dance Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s Triple Bill 2014-05-11T21:31:32Z

Its whirlwind climax skewers the hypocrisy of discriminatory bathroom laws and transforms into a circular farce lampooning comparative suffering that keeps on finding ways to top itself. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

The generational mix of actors works well enough, although Campbell too often seems stranded with little to do until the climax. "Scream 4" more of the same, but fans won't mind 2011-04-13T20:42:22Z

So if you’re struggling to climax, why not try yoga, too. My life in sex: the woman who found yoga helped with orgasms 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

The songs roll by perhaps a little too smoothly, a frictionless voyage toward Don't Stop Believin', which they launch into with little fanfare, but climax with an impressive theatrical flourish. Journey/Whitesnake – review 2013-05-21T17:34:08Z

Through their various interweavings, the realities of modern South Africa – particularly inequality and unemployment – are laid bare as the play hurtles towards a bloody climax. Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z

It's hard to explain why without spoiling the film's climax, which when you get right down to it is the entire reason why this film was made. 5 excellent political horror films to watch this Halloween 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

There’s no climax, no building to something greater and more developed. How “Bitches Brew” blew our minds: Remembering the first time I heard Miles Davis’ masterpiece 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Over at the Huffington Post’s Gadling blog, Mike Barish points us to an underwater scuba scene with an unusual climax: a wedding proposal. In Transit Blog: Morning Walkabout: Mexico City's Greening and an Aquatic Proposal 2012-04-10T15:24:23Z

“Inspection” is rich with dread and builds to a dramatic climax. Review | While we wait for the ‘Bird Box’ sequel, its creator has a novel that’s yes, creepy 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

And yet we stubbornly refuse to call these “not quite a baby shower, not exactly the climax of a ‘Fixer Upper’ episode” stunts by their proper names. It’s a boy! It’s a girl! But, people — it’s not a “gender reveal” party! 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Their efforts to transcend their station leads to a stark climax that is a silent, anguished and haunting cri de coeur. Review: ‘Woodpeckers,’ a Tale of Love and Agonizing Penal Confinement 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Deirdre's drama reached a climax two years later when she had an affair with Mike Baldwin. Anne Kirkbride: A life of drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

There were some glorious moments, and a thunderous final climax, but the journey never mattered half as much as the arrival. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z

And so forth, to the piece’s big climax, “At the Summit,” and through a storm, sunset and, finally, night again, with that disconcerting cluster. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

The plot climaxes in horrific bloodshed, a lacerating irony for characters forever idealizing their romantic quest. 'Penelope' an audacious reimagining of Homer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The record climaxes with "Mortal Man," a twelve-minute epic that features wondrous Lamar verses about Nelson Mandela, devotion, spiritual enlightenment and power. Kendrick Lamar's 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

At the climax of her aria the doll is hoisted on the end of a crane manipulated by three visible men from the stage crew. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z

“Green Girl” offers no arc, no rise or fall, no climax or denouement. In Kate Zambreno’s ‘Green Girl,’ a young American wanders through London

“It seemed to use that in the climax of that performance, in that mass of summoned energy, there was the possibility for the past to break through the surface of the present,” Forsyth said. 20,000 Days on Earth: Nick Cave “Documentary” at Sundance 2014-01-16T21:24:10Z

At its climax, the audience member's blindfold is removed and an actor talks through their experience, finally bursting into tears. Ontroerend Goed: touch-sensitive theatre 2013-03-11T03:20:18Z

Not that the play provides the bullet point climaxes you would expect in a standard biographical drama. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

McBride’s novel is nominally an account of the last years of Brown, the zealous crusader whose ill-fated attack on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 is the comi-tragic climax of the series. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The film’s fiery climax remains one of the most memorably chilling finales of modern cinema. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Is it that, in order to climax, you require a higher level of friction? I’m a man who can’t orgasm through vaginal sex 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

The climax is a bloody tour de force that is less terrifying than puzzling, in part because it also seems, like the business with the apple tree, aggressively obvious. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The restored sound is poor, but the electricity of the performance – the power of its climaxes and dramatic intensity – is unmistakable. Beethoven: Symphony No 9 – review 2013-01-24T22:30:01Z

She stops him before he can climax, underscoring how this scene is all about control – on her terms. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Jumping Into an Ice Cold Lake 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

They continually sabotage their own climaxes, tapering off at the end of songs to forestall applause; and their intros and outros are gnomic and downbeat. Hedluv and Passman – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T12:14:48Z

Lester also moves one with his conflicted emotion at the climax: one moment sniffing the bedclothes, the next achingly drawn to the woman he is about to kill. Othello – review 2013-04-23T21:30:01Z

To prepare for this festival climax, Denardo Coleman has been rehearsing his own core group of players on a weekly basis. Composers Give New Shape to Ornette Coleman’s Jazz 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The climax at a deluxe hotel in Hawaii must be the most objectionable gathering since 1923 when Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. Just Go With It ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:27Z

"You Feel So Lonely You Could Die", the penultimate track, provides the climax which McCormick calls "fantastic, a lush companion piece to Ziggy's Rock'n'roll Suicide that drips vitriol in place of compassion." Bowie is back to best on new album, critics say 2013-02-26T21:01:08Z

So much of this episode — a disappointing one whose pedestrian detective story climaxes with a bathetic confrontation — boiled down to waiting to see if and how Jones would handle breaking the difficult news to Cage. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 6: The Truth Comes Out 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Yes, I realize the climaxes in the “Pines” and “Fountains” are meant to be loud, and that can be — and in spots, was — thrilling, but the amplification crossed the line between loud and deafening. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The play’s climax then further loses itself in a haze of historical exposition. Review | ‘The King’s Speech’ amounts to a stale retelling 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

There is a spectacular climax that left me stunned. Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer - review 2012-08-22T08:00:00Z

Compared to that, the emotional climax is a bowl of cold groats. ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Review: They’re on a Roll 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The ballet’s climax tends to be the Act III grand pas de deux; this is usually associated with other dancers, but nonetheless I’d always hoped to see how she delivered it. Watching Maya Plisetskaya 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

For many of us, though, the evening’s climax was the exalted pas de deux from “Diamonds.” Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

A recent study found that — please brace yourself for shocking information — women are more likely to climax with male partners whom they are attracted to. Closing the orgasm gap 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

And the timing couldn't be better as #OscarsSoWhite reaches its climax with Sunday's Academy Awards. Ava DuVernay's Oscar-week gift: a rare screening with the Broad of Haile Gerima's 'Ashes and Embers' 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The whole cast is excited to be here,” says Chen, whose dominant Olympic performance climaxed a career including six U.S. titles and three at worlds. Stars on Ice back after pandemic with Olympic, world champs 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

The plot climaxes with Posh taking the wheel of their tour bus in her strappy stilettos, and saving the day. ‘Spice World’ & Me 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

What follows is, essentially, a well-made episode of a type you’ve seen on any number of procedural crime programs, with a predictably tense climax and ripped-from-the-headlines awareness of the importance of Black Lives Matter. Perspective | Feel like screaming? Head to the theater. 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Emre then quickly sketches the minimal plot, which climaxes with the chic dinner party at which Mrs. Dalloway learns of Smith’s suicide. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

They also cite Toy Story 3 - in particular the heart-wrenching climax, where Woody and Buzz come perilously close to perishing in a furnace. Sheep thrills as Shaun hits cinemas 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

That is why the two words appeared on the knuckle rings of Radio Raheem, a fictional character killed by police officers at the climax of Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.” Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The one where they started the new agency, it was the climax. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses 'The Phantom' 2012-06-11T18:58:07Z

The climax of the theater season can leave a critic — and dedicated theatergoers — feeling a little bit dazed and sluggish. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z

While drawing colorful, textured sound from the orchestra, building stealthily to chilling climaxes, he was sensitive to the expressive subtleties of Ms. Goerke’s singing. Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Delivers Electric ‘Elektra’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Werewolves Within” darts between sharp visual gags, intricately choreographed scenes and a few standout performances, but its climax lands with a thud. ‘Werewolves Within’ Review: Small-Town Chaos 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

And, from his first entry, Omid Djalili, playing a corrupt Whitehall official, delivers every line as if it were the climax of the play. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z

The climax of the show is a trio of works all centring on the same shuffling of past and present, vantage, vision and perspective. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z

And that turns out to be the climax of Stab 7, which two girls in Woodsboro, Ohio, are watching when a "real" monster, in the same Munch-y mask, intrudes and slices them up. Scre4m: The Ultimate Shriekquel 2011-04-15T15:10:00Z

The opening acts build up to a tragic climax that leaves the king, Leontes, mourning the loss of his wife, son and infant daughter, who is abandoned in the wilderness on his orders. Novelists Reimagine and Update Shakespeare’s Plays 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

It narrates the events leading up to Anne Boleyn's execution, a climax arranged by Mantel's protagonist, Thomas Cromwell. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

The book isn't meant to be a speedy ascent to some grand climax. 'To a Mountain in Tibet': Colin Thubron's pilgrimage through a land stalled in time 2011-04-13T21:38:03Z

The “you and me forever, pal” climax seems like the movie’s reason to be. Movie Review: ‘That’s What She Said,’ a Comedy Directed by Carrie Preston 2012-10-18T21:33:23Z

The movie, which saves the true story’s famous, fatal act of violence for the climax, is a murder mystery in which the killer’s motive remains a mystery. Sports at Cannes: Wrestling with Foxcatcher, Scoring With Red Army 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The quiet climax of the piece is a song that relishes the moral that “nothing lasts forever.” A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

If these episodes — dreamy passages endlessly alternating with punchy, driven ones — never really cohere, and if the blazing, rushing climaxes grow exhausting, there are lovely moments throughout. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Both of those shows, for the record, include climaxes that involve the wholesale trashing of their sets. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z

As “Sweat” drives to its disturbing climax with the headlong speed of a train reeling out of control, you may feel that you know where it’s going. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The book climaxes with the phone call, which was recorded and then given to multiple news organizations. Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The novel lacks a conventional climax, to be sure, but it hits a high point of another kind, a spiritual affirmation as well as an aesthetic manifesto, when Bourgeois affirms her core principles: Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Just when you think it’s going to deliver big on an anticipated clincher, it pulls back, and that withdrawal feels far more satisfying than the expected obvious climax. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Angular passages of spectral music explode through Kushner's brisk dialogue, building to an exquisite, hymn-like climax with the arrival of the stentorian Angel. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

But once the boys all set off on their quests, nothing much happens until a late-coming, somewhat implausibly dramatic climax. | 'The Burnt Part Boys': Mining Families in Disaster?s Wake at Playwrights Horizons 2010-05-26T02:29:00Z

Mystery story addicts, though, may have guessed the secret behind the killings even before that climax. Review | Sherlock Holmes can never die. New books about the great sleuth are making sure of it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

And some onstage violence is not averted: One character audibly snaps the neck of another in combat, and the climax includes Macduff holding the severed head of Macbeth for all to see. In London, a Bloody ?Macbeth,? for Children 2010-07-16T22:40:00Z

Southern , with a pedigreed clan battling their upstart cousins — reaches its climax Sunday night. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Animated Feature 2013-02-21T22:04:37Z

Nevertheless, as seen in the film’s terrifying opening and its gruesome climax, Avery deftly orchestrates some grisly, intense set pieces. ‘Overlord’ Review: Old-Fashioned Nazi-Killing, With a Gory Twist 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Image and illusion are routinely taken for substance, a confusion that reaches its climax in the simple but resonant coup de théâtre that ends the show. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z

He worked the first movement to a catastrophic climax, ratcheting up the savage irony of both the Ländler and the Rondo Burleske. CBSO/Nelsons - review 2011-02-03T16:47:54Z

Alternating between Hodges' and Brady's points of view sets the stage for a creepy, ripped-from-the headlines climax, a showdown between good and evil that characterizes the best of King's work, regardless of genre. Driven to solve murders in Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

This is a work that climaxes in a cancan — that famously scandalous dance in which women flaunt what’s underneath their skirts. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Gaîté Parisienne’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

That reaction — from a room stuffed with Oscar voters — bodes well for “Hugo” as Hollywood’s award season climaxes in the weeks ahead. ?The Artist? and ?The Descendants? Win Golden Globes 2012-01-16T05:19:04Z

The lonely, lumpy child was transformed by her talent, and the evening, full of wonderful vignettes and speeches, reached a moving climax in the reconciliation scene of Lear with Cordelia. Lynn Redgrave obituary 2010-05-03T18:40:00Z

In the climax, as she watches her love die in her arms, her self-containment fractures. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The city’s aerial pyrotechnics typically reach a climax with its official spectacle, Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The haunting noises of a machine, combined with an eerie electronic aura, surged to almost uncomfortably intense climaxes in “Wail.” Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Yet that slow pace can have benefits: the first two seasons took time to reach their climaxes, but when those endpoints came they were both explosive and fully earned. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z

Grainy mobile phone footage of his last moments, bloodied and bewildered as rebels dragged him along a road, recorded the grisly climax of the conflict. One year after revolt, Libyans feel insecure 2012-02-17T11:12:00Z

Edgar Landa's swiftly moving fight direction infuses the climax with general suspense. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Warners pulled the trailer and, according to a story in today Los Angeles Times, is mulling changes to that scene — the movie’s climax. Bane for Real: How the Aurora Killings Shattered Movie Fantasy 2012-07-22T19:49:58Z

Yes, there is a gloopy spiritualism that threatens to overwhelm the film towards the climax, but it remains one of the best vehicles for Carrey’s buffoonery. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Q: How did you get ready for the climax, Miss Piggy? A Minute With: Kermit and Miss Piggy bicker about lines and love 2014-03-19T18:20:01Z

The show climaxed with "Born in the USA" - the title track of the 1984 album that catapaulted him to superstardom, his anthem "Born to Run", and "Dancing in the Dark" before McCartney walked on. Springsteen storms through London marathon 2012-07-15T11:02:01Z

Neighbors complained to authorities that “jazz hymns” sung by Divine’s followers after dinner climaxed in shouts of “joy and delirium” that kept them awake at night. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The two conflicts: Zoe's home life and The Big Bad Thing she did, keep the book moving though I found it lacked a big climax, a Wow moment. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher - review 2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

The climax of the Nutcracker ballet features the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

This ethereal performance of what is perhaps Bowie’s most enduring anthem floats along for over seven minutes before the triumphant climax. Starman: David Bowie’s 10 Most Unforgettable Video Moments 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

The first “Man Who Knew Too Much” climaxes with an extended gun battle of the kind generally played today for slapsticky sight gags. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z

But thankfully Chapter V's synth-smeared masterworks Never Again, Heart Attack and Simply Amazing bring two hours of teenage titillation to a vibrant climax. Trey Songz – review 2013-01-31T13:19:00Z

When that story climaxes with the titular character obtaining vengeance, even audiences who weren't well versed in the history of this period understand where it was coming from. The problematic history in Tarantino 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

The climax of his career was the congress of Berlin, which he turned into a personal triumph even though he spoke no foreign languages, misread maps and imagined conspiracies. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z

It reaches a climax when Reed whacks a gong at the back of the stage: incredibly, it's the loudest and most startling sound all night. Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio 2010-04-20T20:30:00Z

That song climaxes with Carey’s ascent to the whistle register for which she was famous—but the choir enfolds Carey’s pyrotechnics within its cradle of sound. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

This, and the book’s finale, “The Gathering,” seem appended, an anticlimactic climax. ‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

An appearance on the pop charts is just what the groups on “THE SING-OFF” are hoping for, and on Monday at 8 p.m. that NBC reality competition reaches its climax with a live two-hour finale. The Week Ahead: Dec. 19 ? 25 2010-12-16T15:14:51Z

Carmy breaks down and, in an emotional climax, he's seen preparing his brother's spaghetti. The real star of FX's "The Bear"? San Marzano tomatoes 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

Though Posy is an invention, readers of “Ethan Frome” will immediately recognize the story of the sledding accident from the climax of the novel. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

The music then turned tidal, accumulating and swelling into an almost earsplitting climax that jolted through our bodies. Review: Guest conductor leads a striking program at SSO 2010-12-10T18:49:00Z

Bathed in a silvery spotlight, she enacts a tour de force, wriggling and seductive, alternately pained and pastoral, building to an arresting climax as she slowly leans back, gazing ominously upward. Catch 'Sharks' before it swims away 2011-06-03T16:28:51Z

Their death at the hands of matador is the climax of the ritual - only rarely is one spared. Coronavirus epidemic could deal mortal blow to Spain's struggling bullfighting world 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The creep's pattern remains more or less the same: Taunting verbal abuse to nubile high school girls over the phone, sometimes climaxed by the phrase, "This is the last person you'll ever gonna see alive." "Scream 4" more of the same, but fans won't mind 2011-04-13T20:42:22Z

In the competition for the Palme d’Or, the smart money that year was on Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red, the climax to the estimable Polish auteur’s Blue/White/Red trilogy. Pulp Fiction at 20: When Cannes Was Cool 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

And the highlight of the tour: “Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the eighth wonder of the world,” he says, building toward the climax, as his rickety steamboat passes behind a makeshift waterfall. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

And I suggested the idea of incorporating her fans as a climax, for the ending as a kind of surprise.” Director Mark Romanek defends Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' video 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The climax of our tour came in a reggae-infused bar: 13 varieties for tasting, including one standout — Berry Hill, flavored with pimento. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z

It is a dark legacy indeed, and as the season reaches its climax, we are beginning to wonder if Claire might want to disavow it altogether. 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Their Only Child 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Historians have been fighting over the same scraps of documentation for decades, so there’s not much new here, aside from Larson’s argument that 1909 represented the “climax” of the age of exploration. To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

And while I doubt any viewers thought things would neatly follow that trajectory, I’m guessing many were surprised by the clumsiness of the climax. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z

"Sick hamsters, a fraught road trip, and a King Kong-esque climax atop Blackpool Tower" are promised. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z

Stories We Tell chronicles the climax of Polley’s research, when she found the truth: she was indeed her father’s spitting, fighting image. Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies 2012-09-05T18:21:19Z

The survey found women were more likely to achieve climax if their partner was financially well off, confident, and attractive. Closing the orgasm gap 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

“Beef” provides ample evidence of this, in the cascade of escalations that builds to a climax so weird and explosive that it defies spoiling. ‘Beef’ Review: Mad in America 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s there that this doomsday fantasy reaches a frothing, hysterical climax and offers deliverance of a kind, once again with a savior right from a promised land called Hollywood. Review: In ‘Inferno,’ Breathlessly Globe-Trotting and Decoding to Save the World 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

And there is a splendid climax when Hildegard Bechtler's drawing-room set becomes a minefield in which lights sizzle and flare, pictures fall and even a chandelier ominously descends in Phantom of the Opera style. Blithe Spirit ? review 2011-03-10T00:59:34Z

At the chaotic climax of the Prologue an explosion interrupts proceedings. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z

He didn't spend all of the chips up front; he let the music build to a climax that really paid off. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z

With each, she got into character in the most general way and systematically worked toward a climax. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

In the past, things go horribly wrong as the Ford/Arnold rift reaches its climax, with Dolores and Teddy playing prominent roles, along with the now hardened William. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Obviously not: if Tipping the Velvet hadn’t reached any climaxes, it would have defeated its own object. Is Toni Collette really the first woman to orgasm on BBC One? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

But Fentiman's pick'n'mix approach to place and his juxtaposition of high tragedy and low comedy only becomes clear towards the climax. Titus Andronicus – review 2013-05-24T16:47:26Z

The combination of Robinson's fleet virtuosity and Davis' intricate orchestration made this the fitting climax of a work that gained expressive power with each movement. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z

Mr. Volle’s voice is compact, yet it expands for climaxes, riding Strauss’s grand, lyrical lines without too much pushing or strain. Opera Review: A Baritone Shines in Strauss Opera at the Met 2014-04-04T09:10:47Z

Ms. Van de Vate’s skill as an orchestrator is evident from the opening measures of the eerie, brooding overture, whose gently dissonant arc built in tension to an apocalyptic climax. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in Its U.S. Premiere 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's soft but somehow relentless, the climax of Loop the Loop being a fine example. Who will make the Mercury prize shortlist? 2011-07-18T17:56:44Z

The more I heard male voices, the more I could use that in my head when I wanted to climax later. My sexual awakening at 70 2014-04-14T00:00:00Z

A new celebration of brevity reaches its climax this week in Matt Shoard's online magazine, Fleeting. Fiction in a flash 2012-10-08T15:17:42Z

"Our Kind of Traitor" has several virtuoso set pieces, from Dima's desperate opening entreaties in the Caribbean to a stunning climax in the Swiss Alps. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z

Sunday saw the suitably surreal launch of the Eurovision week, which will climax on Saturday with the 2016 final watched by an expected 200 million people. Eurovision song contest 2016: latex, chiffon and a little bit of politics 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Lindelof’s continuation is intimately informed by that game-changing climax, only not in any way that the fly-by comic book consumer might immediately connect. “Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

In the final movement, Ms. Malkki deftly balanced the music’s tumultuous frenzy with symphonic majesty, driving headlong to the brassy climax without a trace of cinematic excess. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

As Bryan Ferry signalled the climax of their performance and took a bow, Ross walked over to the stage and was about to thank the band when drummer Paul Thompson oddly started up again. Jonathan Ross's final Friday Night: an insider review of his last big BBC show 2010-07-16T06:30:00Z

The conductor Gustavo Dudamel was in the pit at the Metropolitan Opera leading a rehearsal recently when he decided it was time to jump ahead to the climax. Gustavo Dudamel’s Favorite Part of ‘Otello’ is a Quiet Prayer 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

There are songs about twinkling stars and flashes of light that tear through darkness, and the show’s climax involves the Northeast blackout of November 1965, given dazzling life by Jeff Croiter’s celestial lighting. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The performance, not without blemish and becoming somewhat murky at climaxes in the Bowl’s amplification, was nevertheless a good one. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

And here’s a touch that’s not just Vegas but basic showbiz: They and Mr. Anastos know – amazingly few do – how to make the ballet’s finale the real climax of all that has gone before. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Vegas but No Showgirls 2010-12-23T13:00:41Z

It's now an expectation that every Bolívar or Carreño concert will climax in exactly the same musical party, featuring the same music, and the same choreography of string players twirling their instruments. Tom Service on the Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra 2010-10-20T21:15:00Z

At this novel’s climax, Tuppence, closeted with an unlikely killer, has an epiphany: She realizes, simply and profoundly, that she is old. In Praise of Agatha Christie’s Accidental Sleuths 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He climaxes then rolls over and goes to sleep leaving me upset and unsatisfied. I love my husband – but his sexual limitations are blighting our marriage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Dead Poets Society had its share of sappiness, not least in the climax in which the students climb onto their desks and salute Williams with Walt Whitman's line "O Captain! My Captain!" Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The second season offers a circularity that confounds the basic narrative arc, that thing that generally tracks from problem to climax to resolution. This is what the female gaze looks like: “Transparent” returns for a thrilling second season 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The furious fiddling climaxes, and like a thunderclap the title flashes on the screen: Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Child's Garden of Wonders 2012-06-26T10:45:42Z

The minimalist repetition builds up quietly to a traumatic climax. Chantal Akerman, Pioneering Belgian Filmmaker, Dies at 65 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Its success depends on providing a roll call of attractive bodies and a galloping succession of climaxes. Sex Tape first look review: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel in perky porn-com 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Its opening scenes are beguiling in their strangeness, and its climax is wild and hilarious. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z

But those shadows, or the stars that appeared at the climax of the title song, only augmented the work’s heavy-handedness. Lost stars on stage for Washington National Opera 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mee suggests that the show climax in “a big, loud wonderful party dance.” Review: ‘Daily Life Everlasting’ at La MaMa 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

But cluelessness reasserted itself at the last moment as Arcade Fire's triumphant encore approached its climax and a voice interrupted the TV coverage to give thanks to sponsors. Lady Gaga "essential" viewing at the Grammys 2011-02-14T21:00:01Z

"I have to say the result is a bit of an anticlimax," she says, about the fruits of Mr Alpaca's climax. Wild Shepherdess – TV review 2013-07-01T10:04:00Z

RP: I like the moment of climax—it seems so obvious to have the peak and then his line is, “Do you find this interesting?” Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

The event climaxed with an emotional tribute to Luciano Pavarotti. Zimmer triumphs at Classic Brits 2013-10-03T10:10:36Z

If it tends to be very rough, then it would make sense that vaginal sex may not allow him to climax at this point. My boyfriend can't climax through vaginal sex 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

It contains climaxes fit to clear the listener's sinuses, but also some lyrical melodic writing that tugs at the heartstrings. Review: Spano and SSO skillfully serve 20th-century classics 2010-04-30T17:05:00Z

Even if it doesn’t really bloom at its top, Ms. Wilson’s soprano easily swells to fill climaxes. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Disco Demolition Night was the climax of a protest years in the making. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The third season of the show climaxed with what is now known as the "Red Wedding," where three primary characters were treacherously murdered along with scores of others at a wedding feast. Desire, ice, and fire: 'Game of Thrones' returns for fourth season 2014-03-28T19:51:15Z

She delivers a satisfying, dramatic climax that represents the comeuppance of 19th-century colonialism, as Naila and the half brothers monkey-wrench the tools of the oppressor. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

And the action climax, showcasing some simple but proficient special effects, doesn’t grind you down the way so many of today's blockbuster battles do. Review: The Dark Tower Is a Fantasy That Runs Like Business as Usual 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Same cathartic climax in a vengeful hail of paintballs. Second time lucky: when directors remake their own movies 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Anxiety and dread are not feelings that most musicals aim to arouse, but they are inevitable in “Carrie” because most audiences know the climax, made famous in the 1976 movie starring Sissy Spacek. What Happened to Off Broadway Revival of ?Carrie?? 2012-04-09T21:38:26Z

Bath festival's day devoted to Cornelius Cardew, the greatest of British experimental composers, climaxes in a complete performance of his most influential work of the 1970s. The best classical music for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:02Z

A font of innumerable interpretations, the original tale reaches a climax with the battle of Dan-no-Ura, during which the Heike clan is defeated, the child emperor drowned and a sacred imperial sword lost. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

And in the hands of Dickinson and Patterson, fireworks light up the story at its climax, when long-silenced resentments finally detonate in the sort of blaze that only arises from love. Review: Three Generations Awaiting Justice in ‘Cullud Wattah’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Then it finally explodes in a climax that reveals dark family secrets. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z

At the climax of every number, her jackhammering heels propel her like a locomotive. Review: Sara Baras in a Flamenco Whirlwind 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Rumbling low notes and treble reveilles carry on a conversation that sometimes climaxes into the rippling tsunamis Taylor is best known for. Jazz it up on Record Store Day Black Friday 2019 with these special albums 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The Stabat Mater begins in massive depression with typical stormy emotional climaxes underpinned by timpani rolls, huge brass and conventional chorus outbursts. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

At the climax, a newly self-confident Macchio takes on a bully in a karate contest — and wins. 'Rocky' and 'Karate Kid' Director John Avildsen Dies at 81 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Cinco de Mayo,” the album’s closer, swirls with mariachi trumpets and Latin rhythms that build to a terrific climax. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Last week’s Gangster Squad climaxed with the same curious retrenchment to caveman fisticuffs. Hero Glock Dirty: Arnold’s Back, Guns Blazing, in The Last Stand 2013-01-18T13:00:02Z

Here, Denève did a splendid job shaping the massive climaxes for maximum impact, lingering soulfully at the close of “Fountains” and the mid-sections of “Pines.” Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

As the group makes its way toward an apocalyptic climax, old wounds are reopened, lost loves are reunited, an alien invasion is uncovered, and many, many pints are consumed. | Edgar Wright on the Autobiographical Inspirations Behind His Boozy Film 2013-08-22T21:05:22Z

Their dual quest constitutes the novel’s long, mind-boggling climax. Book review: ‘Blue Labyrinth,’ by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

A battle scene at the climax, which plays out largely in slow-motion, is breathtakingly beautiful. SXSW 2011: Attack the Block - review 2011-03-13T15:20:56Z

These are eventually spun together in a chaotic climax that manages to be astonishing without destroying the film’s hard-won credibility. | 'Crazy, Stupid, Love': What?s a Guy to Do if His Wife Cheats on Him? Head to the Mall 2011-07-29T00:02:43Z

She puts on her best bad-girl pout, cooing "I'm your little tiger cub" as she slithers through the sheets, climaxing by raking her nails across Nucky's chest with a sound like the tearing of sailcloth. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z

They get in trouble with the law and with each other, and these interactions climax on a darkening beach, ripe with pathetic fallacy. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z

Its surging climaxes and overwrought Romanticism are in contrast to the pungent harmonies and jagged rhythms of the mature Bartok. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z

The climax involves an extended chase through Miami's streets and a huge scramble of other decoy cars with the help of Tej – a foreshadowing of the bigger crime crew shenanigans to come. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

This show was his second release, at the climax of a mammoth tour, and it finds him, it seems, still genuinely amazed by his success. Comedy gold: John Bishop's The Sunshine Tour 2012-11-29T13:45:44Z

But amplification set Russell far in front of a distant band, boosting the size of his guitar and further dimming orchestral ardor at the climax of the Adagio. An uneven evening at Grant Park for de la Parra 2011-07-10T07:00:00Z

This one, the climax was definitely — in my mind — the one before, with Lane hanging himself. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses 'The Phantom' 2012-06-11T18:58:07Z

You know the one: a bunch of rag-tag misfits band together and beat their far more talented, far more mean-spirited rivals at the movie’s climax. 20 Things We Learned About The Sandlot After Talking With Scotty Smalls 2013-04-09T16:03:08Z

Still, the exotic music of the words, enhanced by the stirring percussive accompaniment by Mark Bennett, ratchets up the tension as the story advances to a brutal climax. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Until, at least, the events of the climax which the Doctor misguidedly sparks. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode seven – Kill the Moon 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps you will have seen this climax coming all along, and maybe you will find it splendidly moving. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z

If Winfrey did become president, it would be the incredible climax to a story that already seems impossible. Oprah Winfrey: from poverty to America's first black billionaire … to #Oprah2020? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

For the final climax, Salonen found a musical equivalent of stop-motion photography, allowing the force of nature to stop us in our tracks.  Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The climax here, backtracking on a daring idea, shows a wobbly grasp of tone. ‘Bitter Melon’ Review: Filipino-American Brothers Go Home for the Holidays 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The trailer climaxed with images of him as the elderly Getty, a transformation that required facial prosthetics and heavy makeup. The Race to Erase Kevin Spacey 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

There follows what is arguably the climax of the novel, although by the time we get there, we’ve rehearsed its import more than once. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

It became a small sensation: She doesn’t just nail every note; she approximates the saxophonist’s inflection, approaching moments of climax with a similar ramping effect, while exerting her own bright persona. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s mesmerizing climax to his trilogy reboot of the DC Comics character, is a show, all right. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z

Again and again in “Coppélia” a dancer will pay attention to musical minims while disregarding the climax, shape or ending of a phrase. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

His character, a young Iraq war veteran named Elliot Ortiz, had faced up to so many traumas already; burdening him with self-doubt at the climax seemed a cruel twist by the playwright. Armando Riesco Reflects on His Role in the Elliot Trilogy 2014-03-11T21:42:42Z

In a study of 1,683 heterosexual newlyweds, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers at Brigham Young University in the US found that 43% of husbands “misperceived” how often their wives climaxed. The psychology of orgasms: why faking it today could ruin your sex life tomorrow 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

"The Informationist" is a remarkable thriller; intense and heartbreaking, with a chilling, killer climax. Review: `The Informationist' is intense thriller 2011-03-08T15:04:11Z

Set in Baghdad in the chaotic early days of the American occupation, “Green Zone” dramatizes the fruitless hunt for weapons of mass destruction and climaxes on the first night of full-blown insurgency in Iraq. Film: ?Bourne? Team Takes a Chance With Iraq War 2010-02-27T02:51:00Z

The characters revealed deeply personal things to one another before a slow-motion ballet at the end, where they wound up covered in lemon meringue pie, a kind of slow-shutter tableau of rebirth and spiritual climax. Mary-Louise Parker: The First Time I Performed in New York (With Actual Egg on My Face) 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Stamm orchestrates some good old-fashioned in-camera shocks, but the handheld format is limiting, and what ought to be a truly horrific climax ends in a tired Blair Witch fizzle rather than a bang. This week's new films 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

The emotional climax comes in the eighth episode, which culminates in 1970, when Ohio National Guard troops shot to death four student protesters at Kent State University. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The colors, mastering all these climaxes, mixing all these textures is absolutely fascinating and an exhilarating experience for a conductor. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

Featuring dozens of cool stunts at a turbo pace, and climaxing with a literal cliffhanger, the sequence could almost lead viewers to exclaim, “Wow, this is a real movie!” REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mock Turtle 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The details of why he is so angry form the climax of “Satchmo,” and a failure-to-communicate twist ends the story on a bittersweet note. Theater Review: ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-10-17T21:47:00Z

And though the sprightly “Ständchen” would seem to be right in her expressive wheelhouse, she couldn’t deliver, vocally, on this light song’s deceptively weighty climax. Review | Likability is one thing. Artistic communication is another. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

The show climaxes Tuesday when a winner is named. Bristol Palin comes up last, again, on "Dancing" 2010-11-23T03:25:00Z

Before "The Corn Maiden" reaches what would be the normal climax for another writer – what will happen to Marissa? The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z

The night climaxed, of course, with “Hamilton” and some more “Hamilton,” including a video introduction from no less than the President and the First Lady. The 2016 Tony Awards: After Orlando 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

When the climax comes, it's a spaghetti western with Kalashnikovs instead of Colts to the strains of pastiche Morricone. The Guard ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:41Z

It reached the point where we could make each other climax from a standing start in 10 minutes flat. An erotic email sets Stella thinking about the relationship with Bill 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

The climax directly involves the audience and demands a lot of improvisation, which makes “The Magic Play” a very live act. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Technically, the best thing here is the studio skyline-backdrop, with fibreglass clouds, a travelling sun and neon lights that blink a garish red and green as the film reaches its climax. My Favourite Hitchcock: Rope 2012-07-27T11:23:27Z

We're reminded of that in the current arc's climax, where the fate of everything comes down to a matter of trusting oneself and each other. Netflix's superhero series shows what's to be gained from embracing one's true self, even if others 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

In my recap for that second episode, I mentioned the climax of that TCM movie Mike is watching, “The Caine Mutiny,” where the officers are forced to take down the psychotic at the end. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z

And, for contrast, Mr. Kriikku and the orchestra played some of the slashing outbursts that form the intense climax of the first movement. New York Philharmonic Presents an Unsuk Chin Premiere 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Involving several overlapping story lines — its climax is the 1977 New York City blackout — it offers more proof that the sprawling social novel remains a vibrant and compelling form. 7 great books and bookish events for fall 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

"The Expanse" maintains the poetry in its scripts and plotting even as the last episodes wrap up too neatly, climaxing by solving of an impossible conundrum with a strategy that strains credibility. On its final run, "The Expanse" serves a last supper for we who continue to for our humanity 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

In the world I’m creating, there’s an apocalypse where climaxing is the only antidote to illness. 36 Hours in … Wherever You Are 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Epidemic, drought, crop blight, Western muskets and Catholic missions fatally interact to provoke the novel’s violent climax. ‘The Orenda,’ by Joseph Boyden

So it’s disappointing that the production, on a set by Jian Jung, is foiled by the design challenges at the climax of the play. Review: Mac Wellman’s ‘Bad Penny’ Promises a Boat Ride to Hell 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

But the climaxes arrived in one-on-one encounters: direct, point-counterpoint engagements of listening and improvisation. BomPlenazo Artists Collective at Hostos Community College 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fujiwara knows his way around a scorching climax, but his drumming isn’t really about that; it’s defined by his illustrative, attentive touch. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The climax of the first new episode found Murphy on the air speaking her outraged mind to President Trump as he responds, in real time, with insulting tweets. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The gaunt, thudding opening soon headed implacably towards climaxes that oppressed through sheer force of decibels. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z

Rankin notes in his donated first edition of Knots and Crosses: "I seem to remember I planned to kill Rebus off at the climax; glad now I changed my mind." Book auction to shine light on the secrets of quidditch 2013-05-17T21:30:48Z

In fact, the Spider-Man climax suggests a whole new direction for 3D experiences. The Amazing Spider-Man Crafts Hollywood's Greatest 3D Sequence Yet 2012-07-09T12:00:15Z

The finale inevitably climaxed on a drum solo – but in Katché's hands, that much-maligned exercise sounds like a quietly intense orchestra at work. Manu Katché – review 2013-01-23T14:17:30Z

Cacace and her most recent celebrity partner, Olympic gymnast Louis Smith, were crowned Strictly Come Dancing champions at the climax of the programme's 2012 series. Grant misses dance show opening 2013-02-06T10:10:32Z

“Messiah” does end with the death and resurrection of Jesus, but its first part reaches a smiling climax with his birth. Review: ‘Messiah’ at the Philharmonic, Then a Flood 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

And I’m reminded of the time my father and I were piteously rained upon at the climax of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” underscoring just how trite that script was. Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It was suspenseful and thrilling, with that satisfying Elmore Leonard sensation of schemers circling one another more tightly just before the climax. Justified Watch: Too Much of a Good Thing? 2012-04-04T15:03:40Z

The dynamic range of the performance was huge, from some incredibly delicate pianissimos to richly textured fortissimos in Bruckner’s oft-essayed climaxed. A Fair outing for Bruckner and the horn, at SSO | Classical review 2013-04-14T20:59:23Z

The film, beginning with a nighttime attack that is quick and brutal and lethally effective, builds slowly toward its nerve-racking climax, using old horror-movie strategies of indirection and implication to create suspense. Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z

When the climax arrives, it’s unnerving but also tidy. ‘Hold Me Tight’ Review: An Étude in the Key of Grief 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Berglund has a lot of fun with Crystal's creative determination and frustration – enough that when her entirely predictable arc reaches its climax, it's still satisfying to watch. Starz's "Heels" proves wrestling isn't fake by creating a show about it that doesn't feel genuine 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

Still, my heart began to sink when a screening of "McFarland, USA" rolled around to its climax. 'McFarland, USA' film revives long-buried memory for runner 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The conductor Patrick Summers, a seasoned hand in Mr. Heggie’s music, provided a gracious, lyrical flow and suitably stormy climaxes. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

Double honour, therefore, to Leon McCawley for programming Barber as the climax of his Southbank piano recital and for proving that Barber's 1949 Piano Sonata deserves a more secure place in the repertoire too. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z

In the well-known “Nimrod” variation, the wistful melody for mellow strings built slowly and elegantly to its stirring climax, as it should. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

And Cousin Violet did not come off very well, nodding off during the exciting American indoor picnic featuring a slightly disturbing singalong with inappropriate sapphic climax. Downton Abbey: season three, episode two 2013-01-15T18:35:21Z

He specialises in well-tailored, managerial baddies who look as if they could crack your skull with their bare hands if it really came down to it; which it usually does, in a green-screen action climax. Top 23 character actors in film 2013-04-12T15:00:00Z

By the end, Lim drops some clues as to how the novel’s various threads and universes fit together, but it’s hardly a climax. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The admirable refinement in the Haydn piece carried over perhaps too much into the quintet, where short notes lacked ­Brahmsian weight and climaxes sounded a bit tame. A fine evening with New Zealand Quartet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Nine hundred others perished in a tragedy that is the climax and reason for Alice Hoffman's new historical novel, "The Dovekeepers." 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z

This is the 19th movie in the MCU and brings all of the previous storylines together for a big climax. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

Together, the four versions don’t add up to one unified, coherently climaxing story: The mystery remains unsolved and the reminiscences remain contingent, which makes the film as much about storytelling as a crime. ‘Jersey Boys,’ Eastwood’s Take on Showbiz Myth 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

There was a sense of climax about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday that was both satisfying and appropriate. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z

As the film lumbers to its climax — a kiss that denotes the long-denied love for a character — it feels unearned. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

While that “Parsifal” was revelatory in imagining the opera’s climax as the integration of women into the Grail cult, this “Lohengrin” isn’t interested in fresh interpretations. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

The film’s diptych structure is designed to equate the trauma of training and combat, capped by the still-disturbing murders at the climax of each half. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Rattle also expects the opposite — a display of spontaneity and personality from his players that can bring with it a harshness of attack and climaxes that become overwhelming. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Gotham,” Fox’s Batman origin story, wraps up its first season on Monday, as the mob wars, dirty-cop rivalries and criminal grudges that have simmered for weeks reach a climax. Robin Lord Taylor on His Charismatic ‘Gotham’ Penguin 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

For the incoherent, visually chaotic climax, Mary winds up flooring her expensive coupe into the men shooting at — but somehow missing — her. ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

She and her new boyfriend have sex, but she doesn’t reach climax. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The big climax is a heart-pounding chase down the runway as gun-toting members of the Revolutionary Guard try to stop them taking off. The truth behind Affleck's Argo 2013-01-14T00:55:56Z

The pervasive spirit of social collaboration reaches a delightful climax with a celebratory feast of many foodstuffs, in which all the audience participates. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

I might be jaded, but the in-your-face climax of “Underground Railroad Game” ran in nearly the same track as the in-your-face climax of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” at Woolly Mammoth last year. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The show climaxes with the draft riots of 1863, when white working-class New Yorkers formed violent racist mobs following a draft lottery. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

There are numerous "You do that; I'll do this; it just might work" plans, and the inevitable effects-laden climax has all the emotional weight of a game of Space Invaders. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Consistent with the gradual trend toward darker content as the franchise progressed, "Deathly Hallows - Part 2" climaxes with an intense battle at Hogwarts between good and evil. Fans, stars, Hollywood say farewell to Harry Potter 2011-07-08T01:41:11Z

If that was Britten's lighter side, it was more than counterbalanced by the tragic mezzo-soprano monologue Phaedra, the evening's climax. Britten Sinfonia/Alice Coote – review 2012-11-23T18:58:29Z

If there was a misstep on Tuesday, it was in following the bagatelle with Beethoven’s “Pathétique” Sonata, which might have provided an impassioned climax had it not been performed with such a level head. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Because, if there’s one thing that can be relied upon to spoil a superhero film, even one as sprightly as “Wonder Woman,” it’s the climax. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Arrival” Anthony Lane reviewed the movie: “What lingers from this alien encounter is neither the wizardry nor the climax but the zephyr of emotional intensity that blows through the film.” The 2017 Oscar Nominees in The New Yorker 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

The applause reaches a climax, and the next fan is ushered on for a spin. Elvis Costello – review 2013-06-05T17:41:59Z

The shimmering start of the prelude to Act I was fragile without being wispy, building with lyrical flow to a stirring climax. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Given to writing brass-rich arrangements that built dramatically to a climax, Mr. Scott, who died in 1979, supplied Mr. Bland with intricate musical backdrops that set his supple baritone in vivid emotional relief. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z

The energy seems to lurch, rather than build to any kind of satisfying climax. 'Mandrake' a puzzling departure for Red Orchid Theatre 2011-04-18T22:15:03Z

That's fine for the advanced levels of video games, not so much for film narratives that at their climax should tighten rather than expand. The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon's Battle of the Angels 2011-03-04T17:00:00Z

The 50th anniversary of the Cuba crisis draws near: that's the climax of my story. Paperback Q&A: Joan Bakewell on She's Leaving Home 2012-08-07T14:44:45Z

Even a seeming twist on “The Graduate” at the climax can’t salvage the movie. Review: Winning Her Back on Deadline in ‘Literally, Right Before Aaron’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Intrusive incidental music, a couple of truly absurd songs and a climax at Pinewood studios. My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

But the escalating silliness of her response, climaxing as the queen and princess traded barbs over the clutched dagger until Alicent finally drew blood, tipped the drama into farce. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: An Ugly Game 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

I think the album symbolises the real climax we're at politically. Maxine Peake brings the Pendle Witches to Preston library 2012-12-19T15:07:50Z

Rather, the gracious conductor seemed to offer a hearty, but hardly overpowering, welcome, readying us for swelling climaxes to follow. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

The lengthy prison drama he narrates to Charlie builds to a climax with suspiciously tidy symbolism, involving a burning library and a ceiling that opens to reveal the sky. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Bernard has no claim upon the narrative's present – and, at its climax, he finds he has no part to play in the decisions that have to be made by the other three. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-08T00:08:00Z

They’re there to see Adam perform as half of a squabbling married couple, but by the time the play reaches its grisly climax, none of these people are really paying attention. You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

He pounded admirably at the climax of the First Ballade, but hadn’t set up the preceding material to amplify the grandeur. From Lang Lang, a Technicolor Take on Mozart 2014-02-05T05:00:26Z

Then, at its climax, the poem abruptly drops its ecstatic focus, with a wry, disarming admission — “Of course butterflies can lead me astray.” Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The subject of her sentence is "a mighty woman" and the grand climax reached in line six designates her "Mother of Exiles", sweeping up mere size into the morally greater concept of all-generous maternity. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z

The tone is uneasy teetering on anarchic, veering from giddily moronic one-liners to — more shockingly — a climax with deep empathy and visual awe. ‘Nimona’ Review: Fright the Power 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Adams’s quasi-minimalist accompaniment sustains a meditative, reflective atmosphere for this highly personal language of grief before building to a panicked, almost hysterical climax. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

This is not Spooks – all high-octane glamour'n'guns and double agents with a climax in a deserted warehouse. Complicit; Flight of the Rhino: Natural World – TV review 2013-02-18T07:00:07Z

Go for lush lighting, cast a fit starlet as love interest, make your heroes handsome hunks, and climax with a life-affirming wingding of romantic escape. Cemetery Junction may be joyous, but Brits were born to be glum 2010-04-19T10:03:00Z

The documentary by the Maysles brothers, “Gimme Shelter,” is a spellbinding account of that tour and its tragic climax, that seemed in some ways invited by the Stones’ anarchic energy. My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

The actual crime is far more heinous, though there’s little time to dwell as the story propels toward a climax that reveals not just the killer but the reliability, or otherwise, of the narrators. Does ‘His & Hers’ Mean Cozy Domestic Bliss? Not in This Book 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The climax of “Saul” seems at first to be going a similar way. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The trio’s conflicts spike quickly, but faced with an early climax, the story abruptly resets. ‘Black Bear’ Review: Two’s Company, Three’s an Art Project 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

But even her blunt jokes are always slightly off kilter, focusing more on bizarre turns than on an explosive climax. Maria Bamford’s New Special Is a Kind of Inspired Gibberish 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

A certain menace emanates from a story's first page and builds almost imperceptibly to its climax in a refined but savage violence. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

Her understandable caution cut off the climaxes, but she was rock-solid in her balances, and notably freer as she gained confidence. In City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ an Ever-Changing Menu 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

There are some nice moments, including a Footsbarnian interweaving of Shakespeare and real life, and the finale – in which everyone sets sail – is enjoyably climatic, even if it's a climax hardly earned by the company. Sorry! 2010-06-28T20:45:00Z

So when I reached the climax of my third book, I tried on different endings in my mind. I killed the beloved hero of my books, and reader reactions were intense. Would I do it again? 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

The expressive Adagio, after opening with a tender clarinet solo, was not merely emotional but tense and teeming as it built toward a radiant climax and release. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Since Esther’s musicals usually climaxed with a big water ballet, she might qualify as the wet Eleanor Powell. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z

An organist distracted herself up in the loft during a climax in the action. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

In an awe-inspiring climax, the guide turns off the lights, submerging you in total darkness. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

He expanded the second movement with spacious contemplation and allowed the climax – the famous 10-note chords pinched from Mahler's Tenth Symphony – to really blaze. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z

A big top screening of their lively comedy about a cowardly ant will provide the climax for the Flea To The Circus Creative Cinema Summer School for children aged 6 to 12. This week's new film events 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z

Her debut album, released on Monday, is certainly bold in scope, with intricate, seductive melodies that build up to shuddering, cinematic climaxes. Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvres 2011-01-13T22:19:01Z

The untimely climax was the singer’s 2010 hit, “Dancing on My Own,” an overcoming-heartbreak testament that preceded two other crowd pleasers, “Missing U” and “Call Your Girlfriend.” Review | As crowd roars, Robyn dances on her own at the Anthem 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

But her final speech, the true emotional climax of the movie, burns with a righteous fury, even as the tears fill her eyes. Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It is the war with Iraq that is this book’s climax and turning point. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

And “You Don’t Own Me” is too rooted in “First Wives’ Club” to click as the emotional climax for a too-long, too-much-social-history-on-top-of-romantic-triangle-stuff saga. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

What a thrill it was, upon first hearing Noye's Fludde, to discover that very hymn woven into the stormy climax of his opera. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z

He alternated from laxness to overeager lunging into excitable climaxes. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The first single to be taken from the album, I Call This Home starts small before reaching a spectacular climax of splashing drums, choirs and Saint Saviour's sad and delirious singing. New music: Saint Saviour – I Call This Home 2012-05-25T11:25:03Z

The new aerial maneuver, one of about two-dozen in the show, is intended as an exciting climax for audience members. ArtsBeat: A New Finale for ?Spider-Man? 2011-01-20T03:16:13Z

As they approach climax, the woman reaches for a nearby ice pick, stabbing the man repeatedly and graphically, with blood spattering across their bodies and bed, a none-too-subtle orgasmic allusion. ‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

With the awards season finally climaxing at Sunday's Oscars, No looks well placed to capitalise on audiences looking for something fresh. Die Hard 5 elbows Wreck-It Ralph out 2013-02-20T09:00:03Z

Many deals are percolating and may close before Sundance climaxes on Saturday night with its prize announcements. 2010-01-30T05:14:00Z

Near the end, eight young pianists leaped onto  the stage from the audience and joined in for a climax of complexity. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

The opening and closing movements hit their flashy, fiery climaxes, as required. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The hell-for-leather climax of the finale didn't seem glib, either; its optimism felt well earned, never contrived. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-10-01T17:18:24Z

Coming after the breathless Scherzo, on Thursday it struggled to find its footing, but eventually did, building toward a keening climax of shrieks and downward runs. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

The crystalline textures of Debussy's impressionistic score stood out with clarity and precision, and the dramatic tension grew steadily as the opera headed toward its tragic climax. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

At the end of the 2020s, the Fourth Turning crisis era will climax and draw to a close. Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The film’s tagline, “love never dies,” sums up its treacly climax. ‘The In Between’ Review: Love Never Dies 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

There’s a nuke racing toward New York in the climax of “The Avengers.” Marvel’s secret formula: How the studio seized on American political anxieties to make itself a blockbuster machine 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The dramatic climax involving a beautiful suicide bomber is particularly funny. 2010-02-05T19:00:00Z

Despite language barriers, an impromptu concert ensued, climaxing with a dual-language version of “Jingle Bells.” Think the logistics of a family trip are tough? Try 2 weeks in China for 100 singers. 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The climax was an apocalyptic gallery surveying the horrors wrought by “guns, churches and government” upon the Indian. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The season, which finished taping two months ago, now seems headed for a satisfying climax. Dental student Ashley Hebert has taken a drilling as 'The Bachelorette' 2011-07-29T21:04:04Z

Upon winning his award near the end of the evening, DiCaprio received a robust standing ovation and delivered a gracious speech that climaxed with a call to arms against environmental degradation. Oscars 2016: Split decision: ‘Spotlight’ wins picture; DiCaprio gets gold 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

You see the same mad inventiveness in the show's climax, which consists of the famous pas de quatre from Swan Lake and is dazzlingly executed while threatening to turn into a life-endangering marathon. A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) – review 2012-08-15T17:05:47Z

The tension of the opening scene fails to culminate in a satisfying climax, and the book is peppered with well-built cliffhangers that remain unresolved. In the West Bank, Violence Begets More Violence 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Much is made of the potential love story here, up to and including an overlong penultimate episode that reaches for an emotional climax and unfortunately reveals the limits of Ansari’s acting skills. Review | Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None’ returns — less impressive but still enviably chill 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

From there Parker weaves his usual web of pandemonium only to tear it apart at the climax. The "South ParQ Vaccination Special" fails to be funny – but maybe that's the point 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Trumpets play alarm-like notes over a layer of dark strings, building to a tempestuous climax as Jesus rails against the Father he believes has abandoned him. Adams, Sellars bring 'Passion' into present in opera's first full staging 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

No dancer was tied to any one stage for any length of time, moving along the carpet corridors between them, until all three stages suddenly climaxed together. Merce Cunningham's last dance 2010-04-27T20:35:00Z

But how do women know for sure if they are climaxing? How do women really know if they are having an orgasm? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

When the essay reaches its climax in the Charles Manson material, Mr. Jan counters with a grotesque cartoon shootout between a police officer and a protester, complete with Tarantino-style spatterings of blood. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The climax of this promotional tour, and the meat of this novel, is their appearance at the Dallas Cowboys stadium as part of the halftime show on a Thanksgiving afternoon. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-14T23:05:44Z

After all, women don’t have to be sexually repressed or conservative to lose their power of climax. Ilana’s anorgasmia in “Broad City” Season 4 will be the perfect analogy for white women’s... 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

In a concert in the 1970s, Presley included a bit of "Dixie Land" and climaxed with a stirring section of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as well as gospel numbers. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The orchestra sound at the New World Center was always, even during fortissimo climaxes, clear. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z

The episode’s climax – and the big secret until transmission – was a time-travelling phone call from Matt Smith as the old Doctor, to Clara, telling her to accept the new one. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The mystery, she said, will continue through episode 15, "with a giant, delightful, delicious climax in the season finale." 'Dallas' returns with J.R. Ewing's final schemes 2013-01-25T16:38:20Z

But where the Nazi goose stepping in the brothers’ recreation of Matt’s childhood protest against an all-white “Oklahoma!” is clearly ironic, the quotation marks seem to fall off in the second act dance climax. When Straight White Men Dance 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

As the drama unfolds, the audience, the full orchestra and all the performers will come together for the dramatic, bloody climax of the piece. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z

In the film’s climax, Nixon — who has heretofore taken manly pride in never crying — kneels with Henry Kissinger and prays. Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

It was this theme that the show returned to for its season three climax. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Those who watched Prometheus will remember that the film climaxed with Shaw and David the android heading off in one of the Engineers’ ships in search of the mysterious human-like extra terrestrials’ home planet. Is Ridley Scott making up Alien: Covenant as he goes along? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Elbow closed Saturday with music for festival dads, climaxing with a firework display at odds with their dour anthemic rock. Latitude festival 2012 – review 2012-07-16T09:43:10Z

The infusion of white blood cells, according to Runels, increases lubrication and sensitivity, allowing the patient to reach climax easily. Dr Orgasm will see you now: is the O-Shot what women need for better sex? 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

And the film’s riotous climax deftly turns grim social realism into action-slapstick revenge farce. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z

We were nearing the spectacular climax of our grueling and astonishing weeklong journey through the Crater Highlands of Tanzania. Peering Into Volcanoes at Tanzania’s Crater Highlands 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Spielberg finally got the monsters on land, to terrorize San Diego, at the climax of The Lost World. This Week?s DVDs: Sci-fi Scares from Spielberg and Cornish 2011-10-25T21:49:36Z

The parties reached a climax on Sunday night, after the final race. Partying With Diplo at Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Africa Express is also one of the final events of the London 2012 Festival, running alongside the Olympics, and a fitting climax says festival director Ruth Mackenzie. All aboard the Africa Express 2012-09-03T07:36:05Z

The tempo ratchets up even more on Monday - known as Lundi Gras - as the Carnival festivity moves closer to its climax on Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday. Carnival in New Orleans warms up under sunny skies 2011-03-07T00:09:09Z

And even as “The Taste of Money” swerves toward a frantic climax and a sentimental denouement, it remains intriguing. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z

Ono, dressed all in black, stands at a microphone and wails to a wild climax — perhaps the most violent sound the Beatles ever created. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But majestic climaxes near the work’s end, like blazons of sunlight breaking through clouds, clearly portend works popular now, like “Satyagraha” and “Koyaanisqatsi.” Music Review: Tune-In Music Festival Salutes Philip Glass 2012-02-28T23:15:03Z

In the final act of the series, what better way to bring things to an unforgettable climax? Is Hollywood Going to Kill Batman Next Week? 2012-07-11T12:00:53Z

Dudamel made this an absolutely joyous symphony of swells, implying climaxes but never fully reaching them so that we could have the continual expectation of more. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

In the dramatic climax of Part II of Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden is charged with illegal sales by the socialist government and threatened with a long prison term. 10 more depraved lessons I learned reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The final room serves as a showy climax: the “Estelí” photograph is blown up and illuminated so the women become glowing silhouettes. Alfredo Jaar: ‘Shadows’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The trick, then, is to bring all this to a satisfying, cathartic climax without seeming to engineer Walt back into a good guy simply by giving him a bigger bad guy to fight. Breaking Bad Watch: The Iceman Cometh 2013-09-23T04:26:21Z

Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

At the climax, they lifted paddles advertising the new story in the air as a celebratory banner dropped from the top of the building. Scholastic Flash Mob Celebrates 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The two threads of the story come together in a truly scary climax, and it wouldn’t be fair to spoil any of it. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The choreography, by Frederick Ashton, is an unalloyed masterpiece of poetic drama, achieving its climax in a pas de deux for Oberon and Titania that is as marvelous a duet as any ever made. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Dream’ and ‘Firebird’ 2012-06-22T22:43:10Z

Only “You’re Still a Mystery” was allowed to run much more than three minutes, and that’s because it functioned as the climax to the main set. Indie-pop impresario Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers wow the crowd at a sold-out Anthem 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

It climaxes in a quite incredible "Last Supper" sequence, in which the monks share red wine to the accompaniment of Tchaikovsky's Grand Theme from Swan Lake, playing on an old tape machine in the corner. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-02T15:00:00Z

At the climax of the second episode, the Cybercontroller reveals himself, and this story is rubberstamped as classic. The Tomb of the Cybermen: Doctor Who classic episode #3 2013-03-18T15:29:00Z

It rings endless changes on a rapturous viola melody, heard at the outset over tremulous violins, and reaches its climax with a dexterous percussion cadenza before bounding towards an exuberant close. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z

At one point, he is hoisted up to the famous rooftop where the story will climax with a lunchtime concert for the ages. If "The Beatles: Get Back" has a villain, it might be Michael Lindsay-Hogg 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Much less inspired than its successor, it still delivers a chill or two at its climax. On Silver Screen, a Bit of Gold 2014-02-04T23:04:55Z

I should note that at the performance I saw, there was a technical glitch for the big, blood-spilling climax, which meant the play wasn’t saturated in red light, as it was meant to be. Theater Review: MCC?s ?Carrie? the Musical at the Lucille Lortel 2012-03-02T03:00:01Z

The film that is playing, its music soaring as climax is reached, is Poor Cow with the "numinous" Terence Stamp. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z

He was also unhappy with the third act of the film up until late November, thinking the climax ended up being confusing. 'Spectre' Is Doomed: Did North Korea Kill James Bond? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Speaking of movies, one display exposes the secrets of the physics-defying “Triple Lindy” dive that was the climax of the 1986 movie “Back to School.” In Fort Lauderdale, a hall of fame to dive deep into

In the “Bawitdaba” demo, at the climax of the song, Kid Rock shouts, “Now get in the pit and try to kill someone!” Song of the Summer: “Bawitdaba,” by Kid Rock 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Missing was the weighty ferocity of the end of the first scene in Act II, and the wild currents in the ensemble as the Letter Scene reaches its climax. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

During the climax of the film, something very frightening happens, and the camera lingers on faces—the boys’, their father’s, a stranger’s—that are frozen in helpless and paralyzed apprehension. Screening Room: "Boogaloo and Graham" 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

He’s minutes from the climax of his first survey show — and the audio cable needed for the finale is on the fritz. Is this the face of L.A.’s next major artist? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

There is occasional trouble, too, with the orchestra overwhelming the vocals, including at the climax of Act 1. ‘Emojiland’ Review: There’s a Rom-Com in Your Phone. With Music. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

A case in point is the climax of the episode, which comes when Kirkman pays his respects to the victims of the Capitol bombing. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 2: Day One 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

When things get going, they really go gonzo, and we’re scrabbling to hang on by our fingernails throughout the climax. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The paean to alternative living arrangements reaches its climax, though, in “Switched at Birth,” a series that started on ABC Family last week with the channel’s highest ratings for a new series debut. Critic?s Notebook: A Television Family Tree That Bears Surprising Fruit 2011-06-13T22:30:18Z

That fact leads to a brilliant climax in which Colson, badly wounded, must summon his military skills to save himself and his sister from hired killers who pursue them through a frozen forest. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

He takes these cod-heroic, costumed elements and whisks them into a tale of heavy-metal fury, full of pain and toil, surging uphill, across the flyovers, in search of a climax. The Dark Knight Rises – first review 2012-07-16T15:10:08Z

We know that the climax of the adventure story will not make sense until we have gone far back into the protagonist's past to discover something. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-20T21:55:02Z

Three movements unfold in grave, glacial paragraphs, with wavelike climaxes accumulating and receding and gathering again. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Hunter’s murder ends up providing a sort of climax, but his name is never said out loud in the course of the film. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The biggest set and stunt piece was in an enormous water tank in the underwater climax. Dermot Mulroney: “Floating in warm water in middle of the night is a strange way to make a livi... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Offering a dramatically shaped psychological portrait, Alsop and the orchestra vacillated between lyrical introspection and nervous agitation before an impressively controlled build to the cataclysmic climax. BSO, Marin Alsop usher in new year with flashy, energetic concert at Strathmore 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Star of the North” builds to a gripping climax. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

But it never achieves that necessary climax — paradoxical in a show of this title — when a spectator’s heart is able to melt. Review | My daughter enjoyed Broadway’s ‘Frozen.’ What more do you need to know? 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Like storm clouds banking over a glittering sea, this heady novel by two-time National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin builds to a dark, surprising climax. Mindfulness, captured beautifully in the children’s book, ‘Now’ 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

But the pay-off – video footage of the jet-propelled climax to his mission – is hilarious. Laurence Leung ? review 2011-08-03T17:24:44Z

This masterpiece is dance without climax, without bravura, without speed. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Published in the week that President Obama's attempt to reform American medical coverage reached its legislative climax, So Much for That spine-tinglingly dramatises the reality of falling sick in the US. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

“Der Doppelgänger” exemplifies their shared purpose: Singer and orchestra, breathing as one, crescendo ever so slowly into a climax of uncanny horror. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The sound is overly reverberant, and some climaxes turn brittle; still, Ms. Argerich’s dazzling technique and penetrating engagement sweep away any reservations. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

For moviegoers, the big question is whether the decision to split Collins' final novel into two films represents a brazen cash-grab or an effective prelude to the highly anticipated climax. 'Mockingjay -- Part 1' is stretched thin but holds, reviews say 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The director's use of a startling cinematic conceit at the climax is thrilling. Review: ‘Zero Days’ Examines Cyberwarfare’s Potential Online Apocalypse 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Vocally, he rises to the stirring climaxes in Act 2 with his customary thrilling tone, then seems to deliberately hold back in Act 3, giving many of his phrases a hushed, worshipful quality. Striking new look for 'Parsifal' at Met in NYC 2013-02-17T18:46:05Z

Lowry was a fan of Bellini's Norma, and their hope is that a recording of it will be playing as visitors reach the show's climax. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

Dante had just written The Divine Comedy; it was a moment of bold innovation in European culture, when the gothic age of cathedrals was reaching its climax. Hull will go to heaven for this: gallery acquires Lorenzetti's glowing Christ 2013-07-16T16:24:38Z

The decades — the 1930s and 1940s — roughly coincide with the inception, climax and denouement of his love affair with Ada Mainardi, a pianist 30 years his junior. Review: In ‘Maestro,’ a Downbeat Look at the Great Toscanini 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

But the similarities of story structure charted in an OSF program note — exposition, action, climax, denouement — are basic to most legends. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

And then there’s a moment, the record’s climax, that adopts meaning beyond what any of its creators could have intended. Bon Iver, Feist, Arcade Fire — and More — Cover Peter Gabriel 2014-01-06T17:26:36Z

The climax of the show is a death wall of black-edged prints in which figures rush to escape Death in the form of warplanes, hooks or obliterating black flags descending from the clouds. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z

The first movement of Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta worked to a gut-wrenching climax; its finale saw an outpouring of irresistible energy. RCO/Jansons 2010-08-31T21:00:00Z

Tensions eventually rise, climaxing in a huge screaming match, a scene Driver said made him think of “the theatrics of divorce”. Scarlett Johansson tackles painful divorce tale in 'fated' drama... 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The action is pretty much relegated to the climax, but it's nifty enough that young men may get into the series too even if "Eclipse" isn't their first choice on a Friday night. "Twilight" finally hits its stride with third film 2010-06-28T05:27:00Z

In true film fashion, the Oscars built to a big climax when the Iraqi war thriller "The Hurt Locker" and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, topped "Avatar," directed by her ex-husband James Cameron. TV ratings smile on Oscar as viewership rises 2010-03-08T21:41:00Z

The moment proved far too pandering for many critics, but without it the entire momentum of the “Endgame” climax comes to a screeching halt. Someone edited the women out of "Avengers: Endgame," but the joke is on the sexist trolls 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

By the climax, at which all right-thinking viewers will have dissolved in a puddle of warm appreciation, the new Pixar film has earned two cheers and a big bear hug. Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z

"That's interesting because much later on, when they realised that a woman didn't have to climax in order to conceive, the idea of a woman enjoying sex was considered far less important." Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z

In whispers at first, the group reaches a deafening climax by chanting several hundred times over the phrase: "Who are we to be here together, separated by being together?" Observer archive, 1968: the Arts Lab, a ramshackle prototype for the ICA 2013-04-27T23:04:10Z

All of Ma's skill and playfulness are on display as the novel builds to a climax in which Meili is forced to question her very right to exist in this fragile, ever-changing new world. The Dark Road by Ma Jian – review 2013-05-02T11:00:02Z

We’ve heard this a million times before, but the truth is it took tying the knot before I was able to be completely honest about what turned me on and enabled me to climax. Want good sex? Get married 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

The indie titans’ roughly 90-minute set was a euphoric release, climaxing a show rife with political undertones, starting with Kondabolu acknowledging, on behalf of organizers Seattle Theatre Group, that the theater sits on indigenous land. Hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie punctuate Paramount Theatre’s unexpectedly political 90th birthday bash 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

His songs typically began with a quiet keyboard introduction before layers of lush strings and synthesizers built to a soaring climax. Michael Masser, top songwriter of 1970s and ’80s, dies at 74 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

They were dazzling, and almost identical: produced by Lex Luger, they jumped from climax to climax musically while Mr. Ross grinned maniacally and toasted to excess. Rick Ross Tries On a New, Streetwise Role 2012-08-01T13:32:00Z

But ennui explodes into passion as one chorus bleeds into another, until the song's climax: "Come on you big bad world and entertain me." Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z

That Day We Sang is one of her sketches-with-songs shows: beguiling, episodic, but not gathering to an inevitable climax. That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:26Z

This is matched, in the second act climax, by what feels like the longest death scene of all time. Theater: At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit 2010-03-10T06:07:00Z

To be sure, the climax of the show describes in grim, harrowing detail the death of his mother and the horrific abuse of his wives during a government raid on his compound. 2010-01-29T03:33:00Z

Naturally, the nuptials climax in blood and tears. ‘Love Wedding Repeat’ Review: A Tumble Down the Aisle 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The network has toned down the finale by cutting the prom-bombing climax, and replacing it with nothing much. “Heathers,” Reviewed: The TV Remake of the Classic Teen Comedy Is a Feat of Hostile Farce 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Its climax — which Liszt achieves by working the extreme ends of the piano simultaneously, to delicately epic effect — spoke for the recital as a whole, judiciously balanced yet thrilling. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The characters are so very realistic and the plot and building climax of the story almost addictive. Dead Time by Anne Cassidy - review 2013-06-25T11:00:00Z

I don’t remember ever seeing a better Hoofer; when his tap dance, strongly delivered, finally reaches its climax, he beams with relief as he shoots himself dead. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Stages Balanchine in Washington 2012-11-12T23:09:41Z

Its delivery on the Senate floor is the climax of Act I. ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The “twist” climax in most of his films involves their healing and redemption, and, in this case, the potential power of wounded, ordinary people. Twenty years after ‘The Sixth Sense,’ M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t given up on twist endings 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

After increasingly noisy and bloated starship battles, “Into Darkness” reaches a climax with the smashing of a North American city followed by a long fistfight on a flying metal platform. Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Directed by J. J. Abrams 2013-05-15T17:31:02Z

But when the climax came, it was so powerful that I felt the nudging vibration of my watch warning me that the sound had pushed past 90 decibels. Review: The War in Ukraine Looms Over an Orchestra’s Debut 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

As he has done so often over the past 40 years at the Met, he inspired a great orchestra to give of its best, culminating in a mesmerising climax. Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T09:16:00Z

The end of "I Want You" is like the climax of a speech being cut off. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

The filing was the climax of years of leadership and financial turmoil. Details Emerge of an Orchestra?s Bankruptcy Plea 2011-04-20T23:32:29Z

“The Bride Vanishes” — about the reenactment of an inexplicable suicide — takes place on Capri, with a surprise climax in the Blue Grotto. Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

As soon as the audience stopped, he rounded things off with a terrific climax. Dance Review: A World Tour With San Francisco Ethnic Dance 2010-06-14T22:29:00Z

As the music’s finale builds thrillingly to glory, Ivan’s coronation reaches its climax: Almost nobody onstage moves. In ‘Firebird,’ the Choreographer’s Art Is in Storytelling 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

This made her small, tender moments even more moving than her restrained rages and powerful climaxes. Mariella Devia Returns to New York in ‘Roberto Devereux’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

She recently split up with her boyfriend of two years: it wasn’t entirely connected to sexual difficulties, but she feels their sex life would have been more fulfilling if she’d been able to climax. A day in the life of a sex therapist 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

Several characteristic Lang motifs emerge — doubling, disguise, claustrophobic confinement — during a climax that finds the heroine trapped in the hermit’s cabin, buried under an avalanche. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z

Logan tells Yukio just before he performs impromptu heart surgery on himself — and must reach a climax of men fighting men. The Wolverine: Claws and F/X 2013-07-25T03:00:37Z

In a sale of film memorabilia, the no clothes the cast of hit Britcom The Full Monty wore at the film's climax were the star attraction. Bored with 2012 retrospectives? Here's a look back at the year still to come 2012-12-30T00:06:06Z

“The gazpacho was a little bit heavier, so it went with the more dramatic part. We’re getting to the climax now, so we need protein.” A Mystery Ball Where the Illuminati Have Cloven Hooves 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it’s that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z

The ear-destroying climax to A Stillness is a tribute to his beloved Nine Inch Nails, who have made feral sound collages an art form. The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z

We can feel diminished and even inadequate when we can’t achieve climax. “Like you’re touching your closed eyelid”: (Mis)adventures in orgasmic meditation 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The sound ebbs and flows, the group pushing buttons to push buttons in the crowd, working to a climax, the three DJs as animated as anyone, bouncing with one arm raised, blasting air horns. Swedish House Mafia: 'We don't travel on jets every day' 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Despite his apparently easy command of its deliberately self-contradictory gestures, Salonen judged balance within the overall sound picture to a nicety; nothing was overstated, even at the biggest climaxes. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-06-29T17:30:01Z

In fact, the climax of the opera, a highly emotional scene at The Son’s funeral, shifts the focus from the hurt and onto the love and support found through community and religion. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The climax is, for Brandon, a chaotic downward slide that blends provocation with a scolding, breathless moralism. | 'Shame': ?Shame,? Directed by Steve McQueen - Review 2011-12-01T13:00:00Z

Move the Stars is a bit different, building slowly towards an exultant climax, like Joy Division's Atmosphere on Venice Beach, but hardly the shock of the "ooh!" New band of the day – No 1,286: Blood Diamonds 2012-06-12T16:32:12Z

The night hit a climax on Mr. Mitchell’s final statement, the band building to a swarm behind him. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

And the climax, in classic Savall style, was a playful, gently swaying improvisation on a Renaissance “canario” dance melody, building into flurries of notes frizzling off Mr. Savall’s tiny treble viol. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The scattered applause at the film's climax perhaps signals that it is not a particular early favourite for the top prize. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

Instead, Bobby and Aaron are competitively blasé, fumbling through a relationship that starts with a first-date foursome and hits its romantic climax with a text that reads, “What’s up.” ‘Bros’ Review: Boy Meets Boy Meets Multiplex 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

We always knew that the climax of the movie was going to be a close-up. Disney-esque and demented: Ti West on how his slasher flick "Pearl" compares to "Rocky Horror" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

If the 70s were a blur, the 80s climaxed in tragicomic style when, in a drunken stupor, he tried to strangle his wife. Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z

The episode's "outrageous" climax -- Tommy shooting up the bar with a shotgun as revenge for the owners' enabling of his recovering alcoholic daughter's relapse -- is an even more extreme example of the show's anything-for-a-gasp ethos. "Rescue Me" recap: "Normal is dead and buried" 2011-07-14T11:15:00Z

The Twitter brawl reached its climax when Owens threatened to sue Cardi B for posting a "photoshopped tweet" in which the commentator appears to have written that her husband cheated on her with her brother. Candace Owens threatens to sue Cardi B over "photoshopped tweet" 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

In an ordinary airport thriller, this would be the climax. The Lawless Pleasures of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

One of the group’s best works, it shows the strong influence of Brian Eno, whose instrumental sketches similarly refuse to climax or resolve. The musical duo Air performs something kinda sorta like a rock concert 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

This applied to the climaxing, but also to the chatter: the gossip, the confessions, the barside bromides, the characters’ ceaseless whining and rehearsals of anxieties and slights. A Lesbian Who’s Not a Lesbian Walks Into a Bar, and ... 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

After the film’s climax, in a moment of both existential and emotional vulnerability, the queen’s hair emerges. How ‘Black Panther’ Got Its Gorgeous Afrocentric Hair 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

At the dramatic climax of "The Kid," five-year-old Jackie performed despair with a conviction that transformed expectations for what a child actor could do. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The opening selections from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" Suites featured thick, dark orchestral textures punctuated by terrifying brass climaxes, as Gergiev and the players explored some interpretive extremes. Superb Tchaikovsky, delivered by the Mariinsky 2011-10-20T17:13:40Z

Instead of building to a dramatic climax it seems to taper off, to let go of the strange emotional intensity that had built up over more than two hours. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z

Famously, she eventually announces herself as “Mrs. Norman Maine” — “A climax of pre-feminist self-abnegation,” Mark Harris wrote in his 2016 survey of the adaptations — or otherwise asserts loyalty to her tragic marriage. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The ravishingly coloured slow movement is flanked by an opening that alternates between hyperactivity and introspection, and a finale that winds up to a huge climax and discharges its energy in a lingering coda. Proms 42 & 43: BBCSO/Gardner; St John Passion 2010-08-18T11:03:00Z

It all climaxes with a large, sprawling set piece on the streets of Rotterdam, involving a runaway bus speeding toward a treacherous bridge. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The climax is an avalanche on Christmas Day that appears to devour her new paramour. Ten of the best: Alps 2010-12-18T00:07:19Z

His skill for that approach endeared him to ravers across the globe, in part because he has long been devoted to trance, an often-derided genre of dance music rooted in big climaxes and unabashed sentimentality. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

The gotcha moment provided the climax of the movie as Durst stepped off camera and muttered to himself on a live microphone in the bathroom: “Killed them all, of course.” Prosecutor: Jurors conclude Durst heir ‘killed them all’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

And she’s inexplicably sidelined in her own movie’s climax, a fate repeated in her next action picture, the unfortunate “Hancock” from 2008. The Pleasure of Watching Charlize Theron Throw a Punch 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

It seems limited by a rush toward its climax, which depicts the moment of violence that operates as the novel’s traumatic core. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The author was speaking at the launch of The Casual Vacancy, responding to an admission from Mark Lawson that the novel's "bleak and shocking climax" made him cry. The old magic 2012-09-27T22:37:10Z