Word: denouements
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...against its predecessors, and may go them a little better in the department of spleen-shattering spectacle. But perhaps there did not have to be one in the first place. Similarly, a better locale might have been selected for the final shootout, one that did not duplicate the seedy denouement of The French Connection quite so closely...
...difficult to call back the passion or the classic clash between the radical antiwar movement and the criminal-justice system. By the time three of the original defendants and one of their lawyers were found guilty last week of contempt of court during the first trial, the denouement had dwindled to a legal mop-up operation...
After the long weeks of buildup, of insisting upon his innocence, of accusing Government officials of plotting his downfall, of vowing that he would fight to the end, the denouement of the Spiro Agnew debacle came with stunning swiftness. His hands trembling slightly and his Palm Springs tan bleached white with tension, Agnew walked into a Baltimore courtroom last week and admitted that he had falsified his income tax in 1967. When he emerged half an hour later, Agnew had been transformed from Vice President of the United States into a convicted felon...
...troubles have brought him only half the kingdom. Ironically, it is Medeia who kills Pelias. She and Jason are exiled. But after finding refuge in Corinth, Jason ignores his marriage vows to Medeia and vies for the hand of King Kreon's daughter, Pyripta. This classic betrayal's denouement is soon at hand, but Jason and Medeia is only beginning...
...effect was such that I hastened to read some of Lovecraft's stories. I admit I disliked his stylistic mannerisms. He tells his tales through a troubled, dim, first-person narrator, and he saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...