crescendo
Example Sentences
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Investor anxiety hit a crescendo in November, when Blue Owl, the poster child for private-credit lending, scrapped a plan to merge two funds it manages.
They appear about midway through the installation as an exciting crescendo.
It’s fitting that the trajectory leads not toward a splashy crescendo but the softer, melancholy landing of the finale “Our Time”: starry-eyed dreams sung on a rooftop in 1957.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a film so flush with ambition that it rarely crescendos; it can afford to chop sequences, songs, even genres, down to a string of snippets.
From Los Angeles Times
In previous films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert,” the writer-director managed to tee up more than a few last-minute emotional crescendos.
From Salon
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