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The clear and searching sweep of sun on the lawns was like a climax of the year's lights.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.
In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:
The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.
This oath was the climax of the Eighty Years ' War ( Dutch Revolt ).
The narrative was told in great detail in Tacitus ' History, book iv, although, unfortunately, the narrative breaks off abruptly at the climax.
The Reform Act was the climax of Whiggery but also brought about the Whigs ' demise.
The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.
His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his butt.
The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.
The climax was reached with the celebration of the flame of Reason in Notre Dame Cathedral on 10 November.
They also obtained stock footage from the film The Mysterians from RKO ( the film's US copyright holder at the time ) which was used to not only represent the ICS, but which was also utilized during the film's climax.
The struggles came to a climax in 1991 when the team went 1 – 15 and was just one point away from the first imperfect season in the history of a 16 game schedule.
Goebbels remained preoccupied with the annihilation of the Jews, which was now reaching its climax in the extermination camps of eastern Poland.
The mountain was destroyed during an attack on the facility by Able Squad at the climax of the first season of the show.
He died before events could reach their climax ; it was his successor Pope Innocent IV who declared a crusade in 1245 that would finish the Hohenstaufen threat.
The climax was reached with the celebration of the goddess " Reason " in Notre Dame Cathedral on 10 November.
Super Bowl XV was the climax of Plunkett's revival as an NFL starting quarterback.
" The End "' s Oedipal climax was first performed live at the Whisky A Go Go ; the band was thrown out as a result of Morrison screaming " Mother ... I want to fuck you!
Soon afterwards, however, their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment.

climax and election
On May 20, 1938, an election was held which was the climax to incorporating the town.
The election of 1828 was a significant benchmark marking the climax of the trend toward broader voter eligibility and participation.
His arrest briefly pushed the climax of Italy's general election from the main headlines on Italian news stations.
In January 1985 the process of negotiated transition towards democracy reached its climax with the election of Tancredo Neves of the PMDB party ( the party that had always opposed the military regime ), as the first civilian president since 1964.

climax and Abraham
Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to the ritual of child sacrifice, which contradicts the morality of a perfect and giving ( not taking ) monotheistic God.

climax and Lincoln
Finally, in the climax of the film, Lincoln delivers a conflation of famous words from the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865-just moments before being assassinated.

climax and which
There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.
* Climatic climax community, a biological community of plants and animals which has reached a steady state
At its climax there appeared a poem by Sir Walter Scott, which we were obliged to memorize.
The film Requiem for a Dream concludes with " Act III: Winter ," in which the movie reaches its chilling climax.
The song built to a climax in which Nicks ' vocals were so impassioned that drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood declared, " her < i > Rhiannon </ i > in those days was like an exorcism.
The climax came in the year 190, which had 25 suffect consuls — a record in the 1, 000-year history of the Roman consulship — all appointed by Cleander ( they included the future Emperor Septimius Severus ).
On drier sites in California, where Douglas-fir behaves as a climax species in the absence of fire, the Douglas-fir has become somewhat invasive following fire suppression practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries ; it is becoming a dominant species in many oak woodlands, in which it was previously a minor component.
Making a trip to Paris in 1665, Wren studied the architecture, which had reached a climax of creativity, and perused the drawings of Bernini, the great Italian sculptor and architect.
A scene in which a character is threatened with blinding in the manner of Gloucester forms the climax of the 1973 parody horror Theatre of Blood.
With the music reaching its grand climax Astaire and Rogers rush toward the camera, then away in a series of bold, dramatic manoeuvers culminating in three ballroom lifts which showcase Rogers ' dress before abruptly coming to a halt in a final, deepest backbend, maintained as the music approaches its closing bars.
" No facts in recent history are established more incontestably … than the numerous cases of murder, assault, and various forms of intimidation for which the National Socialist Party in Germany has been responsible … The organized economic boycott of the Jews is the climax.
At the climax of the story, a great battle takes place on a hill near Alderley during which the children and their companions make a desperate last stand to protect the Weirdstone.
The dramatic phase that Freytag called the " climax " is the third of the five phases, which occupies the middle of the story, and that contains the point of climax.
In one instance it serves as a climax for a broadcast which begins with Costello receiving a telegram from Joe DiMaggio asking Costello to take over for him due to his injury.
The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor and son Vladimir of Russia by Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and calls on his slaves to perform the famous Polovtsian dances, which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.
* Race hatred has reached its climax ; peoples are more divided by jealousies than by frontiers ; within one and the same nation, within the same city there rages the burning envy of class against class ; and amongst individuals it is self-love which is the supreme law over-ruling everything.

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