climax

The former mayor of Manchester’s entry into Downing Street will mark the climax of a steep ascent for a politician who until last month wasn’t even a member of parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Perversely for a film with a two-hour-and-25-minute running time, the climax still feels rushed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

That chandelier started in four separate pieces, flying through the auditorium to come together and form the complete fixture at the overture’s climax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

His appointment as premier, which will be formalized by King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Monday, marks the climax of a steep ascent for a politician who until last month wasn’t even a lawmaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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!

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Mr. Day’s lushly orchestrated score, sweetly tonal throughout and full of harp riffs, is paced with a mellow sameness that even the frequent big climaxes can’t jolt into dramatic excitement or dangerous energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Famously, in one of the most extraordinary championship climaxes in F1 history, Ferrari messed up their strategy and opened the door to Vettel to win his first title.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Some of the best popcorn movie climaxes are built around less.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025

Hundreds might even be an underestimate in this handmade epic that climaxes with a giant mecha-beaver of actors in cheap animal costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Roger Paterson presented his footage to America in a traveling show that crisscrossed the nation and climaxed with the hyped Bigfoot sequence on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Cody Gakpo's run into the PSV area climaxed with a shot that was parried by Matej Kovar and Szoboszlai pounced to guide a first-time finish into the empty net from 12 yards.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“When I Needed You” climaxed with a moving a cappella singalong that had virtually the entire crowd belting Jepsen’s lines about discovering how far is too far to go to accommodate a selfish partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

It climaxed with Chalamet’s sheltered scion, Paul Atreides, abducted from his family’s spice-mining compound and left to die in the scorching Arrakis desert, patrolled by fanged sandworms the size of the Empire State Building.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

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.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Seven stakes are for 2-year-olds, climaxing with the $50,000 Gottstein Futurity at a mile and 70 yards on closing day.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

The Nats established themselves during an eight-year stretch when they made the postseason five times, climaxing with the 2019 World Series win.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022

The film teases a confrontation between Marcus and Joe, climaxing with a meeting recalling Michael Mann’s “Heat.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

In the third poem, “Dry Savages,” music and dance come closest to amplifying Eliot, climaxing as the poet begins to reach for revelation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2020

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.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela