denouement
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The tragic denouement has left a complex reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Hundreds of intellectuals and others have signed letters and online petitions expressing fears of a disastrous denouement: the collection’s prolonged — and possible permanent — absence from Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
What a denouement to the group this promises to be.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
But the absence of warmth in the performance robs the denouement of a portion of its awful pathos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Even Ernest seemed terrified of the plan’s inevitable denouement.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Yet despite a number of similarities, including mistakes made and disastrous denouements that spelled defeat for the U.S., each conflict had entirely different impacts on U.S. society, culture and politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Campy whodunnit Clue embraced the chaos: its 1985 cinema release randomly featured one of three different denouements to encourage repeat business.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2021
He was a student of the Tom Wolfe school of writing and favored stories with deeper meaning and surprising denouements.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 14, 2020
From the start Martin’s books diametrically opposed the sort of neat denouements C.S.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
He takes part in no actions, no drama, no entanglements, no denouements.
From Life of Chopin by Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook
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