Word: denouement
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...ragged voice is so captivatingly emotional that just that one line suffices. The group then builds into a high-register guitar solo before drifting back into the quiet sonic coma in which the song—and Z itself—began. The song’s denouement lasts approximately two full minutes, but when it finally fades into silence, you’ll undoubtedly feel compelled to start it over again, unlike the album as a whole. —Staff writer Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey can be reached at nhafrey@fas.harvard.edu...
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...question. He asserts that “the world is not flat” and explains the title as literary license intended to draw attention to the issue—but this mea culpa does not arrive until page 375. The concession’s offhand placement in the denouement of the argument, rather than in the prelude to it, can only confuse the reader compelled by Friedman’s effervescent faith in flatness for the previous...
However, the witty script and ironic denouement of the plot create a play that is about much more than just the entertaining appearance of drugs, guns, and a stripping secretary...
...many among the U.S.'s 67 million Catholics, significant qualifiers attached to John Paul's career. Between the rise of the hero disposed to combat one of his age's great scourges and his undaunted denouement was an unsettling second act, as more liberal believers realized that their shepherd could be autocratic, hardheaded and disapproving. For such disaffected followers, John Paul was not unlike another great Slavic moralist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, lionized while his prophetic voice was raised against the Soviet behemoth and less welcome when he turned it on the victorious West. James Carroll, a former priest who has written...