climactic moment

collocation in English

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climactic
adjective
uk
/klaɪˈmæk.tɪk/us
/klaɪˈmæk.tɪk/
forming or relating to the most important or exciting point in a story or situation, especially when this happens near ...
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moment
noun
uk
/ˈməʊ.mənt/us
/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofclimacticandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet at the expectedclimacticmomentof the final phrase, the entire ensemble suddenly retreats, leaving only the slide guitar.
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At theclimacticmomentin the story, they reveal their gifts and simultaneously discover what each has given up to buy them.
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Here is only one example, notable for combining appropriation of the opponents' dramatic gesture, use of an overlay, and the forgetting, at theclimacticmoment, of a telegraph wire.
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What's damning about the record is that itsclimacticmomentforces up this tension but doesn't neutralise it; consummates the song's drama without exorcising its anger.
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Theclimacticmomentis concluded by a sharp and sudden boom of the drum, which continues to pulse repeatedly for a short while after.
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Episodes which end in the middle of aclimacticmomentare often called cliffhangers, after the name used for early movie serials.
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But at thisclimacticmoment, his fate is suddenly reversed.
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After some time, the work begins to escalade until it reaches aclimacticmomentin the concerto, a point of unforeseen energy and enthusiasm.
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Even the climactic moments of the evening substitute teasing collections of imagery and text for a tidy conclusion and denouement.
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Two climactic moments, marked with steep amplitude, represent divisions between adjacent parts.
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Cassidy's race against him is the novel'sclimacticmoment.
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For they neither indicate the true dimensions of the opera nor its climactic moments; much less how these moments are linked to the purely dramatic ones.
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He had his crew comically insert random stock footage or his own image at climactic moments.
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Several climactic moments follow before the creation of a fairy world, dominated by a descending chromatic theme for strings, celesta, and harp.
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