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In its last act and the coda that follows, Old becomes more sentimental, more of a family drama than the film seemed to be at the start — and then, all of a sudden, it turns into something like science fiction.

From Vox

A bright, zesty lemon pudding makes a lovely coda to any meal, but topped with a quick blueberry whipped cream, it becomes a truly festive dessert.

In his stringent efforts not to tell us what to think, Anthony makes some woolly detours, including a short coda that shows a group of students making a TV pilot as a class assignment.

From Time

Technically, there’s a fair amount of one-last-job action noir left after the doors close — but it’s pretty forgettable, pure coda, after that meeting and separation.

The coda of this story is that my father, eventually and to his credit, got behind me and supported whatever direction I wished to take.

Of course, you can read this just as a brilliant, subversive coda to a horror movie.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven't seen season five episode eight of  The Walking Dead, “Coda”

The scene serves as the coda to The Last of the Unjust, and it ranks as one of the most splendid closing sequences in cinema.

Melville then appends an ultra-weird coda: There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history.

And then the joke in the last verse of watching Walter Cronkite deliver the coda.

And again, it has a coda pausing on the dominant chord and followed by an Andantino.

The coda is one of the most fascinating ever penned by Schubert.

Beethoven had originally intended that the entire scherzo, with the trio, should be repeated, and then be concluded by the coda.

It has the rondo form; the principal theme, twice relieved by an interlude, recurs three times, and winds up with a coda.

Finally, a new and important climax is introduced in the coda by the opposition of the two chief subjects.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coda, such as: afterword, postscript, summation, conclusion, ending, and finale.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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