final act

collocation in English

meaningsoffinalandact

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final
adjective
uk
/ˈfaɪ.nəl/us
/ˈfaɪ.nəl/
last:
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition offinalandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffinal act

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We live our lives as a play which is stripped of itsfinalact.
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By thefinalact, the gallery had taken to singing back to him in mocking high catcalls whenever he made his entry.
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But how, against this background, are we to understand the representation of his 'death' in thefinalact?
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It could not be said with certainty, except in one instance, that these transverse divisions were not thefinalactin a longitudinal division.
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Thefinalactis harrowing for precisely this reason, this transformation in our perceptions.
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Let us have a closer look at thefinalact.
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Hisfinalactappears to moderate this, but only if one accepts the fantasy world of the lake as real and not his haunted imagination.
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He and the soprano reappear in thefinalact, but are divided by a barrier which must be crossed by the man.
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As previously noted, he went to extraordinary lengths to incorporate a happy ending into thefinalact, but criticism caused him to make further adjustments as well.
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Maw's reliance on the horrific force of the events of thefinalacteffaces the drama of the rest of the opera.
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But more often than not, thefinalactof submission seems to occur in a context where the alternative is no longer psychologically possible at all.
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We are taken step by step through the trial, the parting with his children, his preparations for death and thefinalacton the scaffold in the tradition of martyrology.
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Hauptmann's third and fourth acts take place in a mountain smithy, but the fifth andfinalactis set elsewhere and would have required a stage transformation in mid-course.
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There may be onefinalactof mayhem—the exchange rate mechanism, the final solution.
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It is an historic moment: thefinalactof the revolutions of 1989.
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It will certainly be a key factor in persuading the developing countries to subscribe to thefinalact.
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It was thefinalactof humiliation for him.
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How distant may a conspiracy be in space or time from thefinalact?
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