It is often referred to as Chaplin's finest accomplishment, and film critic James Agee believed the closing scene to be " the greatest piece of acting and the highest moment in movies ".

Noon Greenwich Mean Time is rarely the exact moment when the sun crosses the Greenwich meridian ( and reaches its highest point in the sky at Greenwich ) because of Earth's uneven speed in its elliptic orbit and its axial tilt.

Holmium has the highest magnetic moment () of any naturally occurring element and possesses other unusual magnetic properties.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

At the moment of contact, the hitter's arm is fully extended above his or her head and slightly forward, making the highest possible contact while maintaining the ability to deliver a powerful hit.

The commercial prosperity that was produced by his war policy was in a great part delusive, as prosperity so produced must always be, though it had permanent effects of the highest moment in the rise of such centres of industry as Glasgow.

Solar time is measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the sun, and local noon in solar time is the moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky ( exactly due south or north depending on the observer's latitude and the season ).

The particular moment of highest activity is the peak or maximum ; the lowest point is the nadir.

Hera had the two brothers drop dead instantaneously as the best thing she could give them was for them to die at their moment of highest devotion.

Solar noon is 12 o ' clock apparent solar time, or around 121 p. m. local time depending on daylight saving time, the moment when the sun crosses the meridian and is about at its highest elevation in the sky.

Solar noon is the moment when the Sun transits the celestial meridianroughly the time when it is highest above the horizon on that day.

At the moment the rod tip reaches its highest velocity the direction of the cast is determined.

The FARC had taken control, as they claimed, of some 100 municipalities of Colombia out 1093 at that moment, kidnappings were common and were among the highest in the world, as well as the assassination and crime rate.

The earthquake had a " strong " moment magnitude of 6. 7, but the ground acceleration was one of the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America, measuring 1. 7 g ( 16. 7 m / s < sup > 2 </ sup >)< ref name =" Lin-Allen ">

The time for performing middle or Salat Al-Wusta can be observed from the moment the sun begins its descend from its highest point in the sky ( duluk al shams ) until sunset but before the darkness of the night ( ghasaq al-layl ) starts to set in.

In 1952, two years after an armed uprising of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, it obtained 19 per cent of the votes, its highest electoral support ever, which made it the second electoral party on the island for a moment.

This was an act of the very highest treason and meant that Gallienus had to break off his campaign against the Goths in the Balkans at a most critical moment to return to Italy to deal with him.

The moment for testing his capacity in the highest degree had now come.

The " rats and snakes " moment is arguably the most remembered moment in Survivor history, as the season one finale was the highest rated episode of Survivor to date and it was the first ( but not the last ) time in Survivor that anyone ever expressed such bitterness and anger.

The MoMA show is regarded as a watershed moment in the history of photography, by marking " the acceptance of colour photography by the highest validating institution " ( in the words of Mark Holborn ).

The highest moment in the band's career was probably reached with the release of their album Agíla, which was awarded a prize for best video in the first edition of the Spanish Music Awards in 1996.

Her ambition to deal with the highest things was further evinced by her undertaking at different times the translation of the two contemporary continental books most famous at the moment — Strauss's ' The Old Faith and the New ' ( 1873 and 1874 ) and ' The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseft ' ( 1890 ); also by writing for the ' Eminent Women Series ' the lives of two of the most distinguished among women — George Eliot ( 1883 ; new edit.

His narrator in this poem is a witness to historical change who seeks to rise above his historical moment, a man who, despite material wealth and prestige, has lost his spiritual bearings.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Mitchell Barton drew in the fragrance deeply, letting the smoke lie warm and soothing in his throat for a moment before he exhaled.

Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

As it was, his vision blurred and for a moment he was unable to move.

Sweeping a look around, he saw that he was safe for the moment.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

He sighed and leaned for a moment against the trunk.

He thought for a moment his heart had stopped beating.

`` E '' stands for `` execution '' -- the moment a `` go order '' would unleash an American nuclear strike.

He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.

The women who come to West Venice, having forsaken radicalism, are interested in living only for the moment, in being constantly on the move.

At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.

not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.

I will reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to President Kennedy.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

Not for a moment do we forget that our own fate is firmly fastened to that of these countries ; ;

He paused for a moment to look at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his `` Today '' column.

Let us survey for a moment the development of modern thought -- turning our attention from the Reformation toward the revolutionary and romantic movements that follow and dwelling finally on more recent decades.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.

Now omitting for a moment some recent developments we can say the Saxon Shore hypothesis of Lappenberg and Kemble has undergone virtual eclipse in this century.