Word: crescendos
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...accomplishments. He is a master of bedroom farce-not to mention bathroom humor, most of which is not translated in the subtitles. In a flashback to the couple's courtship, he pulls a hilariously rowdy switch on the old Tristan-Isolde routine, and follows it with an uproarious crescendo of crockery-busting buffoonery. Moreover, Bergman flashes a redoubtable power of cynical epigram ("Only impotent men are faithful, and they have unfaithful wives"). And almost every character and scene is shaped by the cutting edge of his irony...
...later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material, requires much control of intonation and dynamics. The strings met its challenge well and, by the enormous crescendo near the end, their tone fairly shimmered with intensity...
Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences ever shot. All by itself it would be worth the price of admission...
...made me want to whimper like a whipped dog at the unmeaning cruelty with which people live with one another. This is not my favorite reaction to a play; I do not unreservedly enjoy the sensation of clenching my fingernails into my palms to steel myself against a crescendo of misery. It would be easy to find The Glass Menagerie dreary; I myself would not want to see it again for a long time. If not done well it would probably be intolerable. But in the present representation it is inescapably moving...
...does succeed in showing pictures in a more dynamic way than they have been previously exhibited: colors explode from the several tiers, shapes and patterns echo to a frightening crescendo, and above it all hammers the spiral and the circular dome...