Word: denouement
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...enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists ("vowing all the while never to learn to use the gun she was given"), but scalded herself seriously with some boiling water and was rescued from a field hospital by her parents, "whose baffled but stubborn love was always coming between her and the denouement of agony to which she aspired...
...packed house. At every political punch line, rhythmic rehearsed applause thundered from one section of the audience. Next day the Communist press dutifully trotted out reviews, though the chore was almost too much for Berliner Zeitung Critic Hans Ulrich Eylau, who cautiously wrote he thought the play's denouement a little hard to take. Gulped Eylau: "This is not to be a critical final judgment. It is just the result of a first encounter with a play that in spite of all its shortcomings is ... an enrichment of our scanty stock of political contemporary poetry...
...will be willing to abandon its dogmatic position on Far Eastern problems is not clear. But the turn of events in Korea made it tragically plain that this country has been supporting a big policy with a small army. General MacArthur's "end of the war" drive provided the denouement; it was, as Tokyo now admits, a dangerous gamble, and we lost...
...adolescent school girl. Written in a style frankly derived from Faulkner, "In Dust" successfully avoids mimicry and artiness, two near constant companions of this style. An abundance of poetic images clogs the opening of the piece, but thereafter it flows smoothly and skillfully. The pace is sustained, and the denouement carried off with aplomb...
...book reviewer's disclosure of the denouement of a mystery novel-whether it be called a detective story, a novel of suspense, or merely "an enigma"-has always been generally regarded as a cross between torn peepery and violation of a blindman's cup. Turning to the last page of any book requires no great critical acumen . . . Yet surprise is the mystery writer's stock in trade ... To rob him of this stock in trade by wholesale revelation in a review is not only unethical but actually damaging ... I am surprised, therefore, that TIME'S reviewer...