; Subclimax: The prolonged stage in succession just preceding the climatic climax is subclimax.

Medevac is rarely as fast as portrayed in the media, due to transport time to the scene, the need to establish a landing zone ( usually by a local fire department ), and prolonged on-scene times ( due to the relative difficulty in acquiring a blood pressure or electrocardiogram and in performing certain procedures in a moving helicopter ).

The native extras also went unpaid for their work despite their involvement in numerous dangerous scenes, including a scene in which they were forced to stay inside a burning hut for a prolonged period of time.

This version gives the witch the most prolonged and dramatic death scene of all versions ; it also differs from previous adaptations by suggesting that Mombi was her protege.

* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003 fantasy / bildungsroman novel by J. K. Rowling, includes a scene with a couple who both have profound dementia resulting from prolonged torture.

** ( a ) a graphic or prolonged scene of violence, torture, crime, cruelty, horror or human degradation ;

Dinner takes place during a prolonged penultimate scene, with contrapuntal snippets of the Khasi's army demolishing the Palace exterior, and the officers and ladies ignoring the devastation as they dine.

After a prolonged absence from the international scene, Green was called up for the England " B " match in May 2007 and then named in the senior England squad to face Brazil and Estonia in June 2007.

Perhaps the best-known scene is the fight to the death between Armstrong and Gromek, a gruesome, prolonged struggle.

She pleads loudly for the perpetrator to stop, which they finally do by the end of the scene but not after a prolonged aural torture for Joyce.

Special flashbulbs were designed which had a prolonged burn, illuminating the scene for the whole time taken by a focal plane shutter slit to move across the film.

Otherwise Mussorgsky reserves his vocal melodies for prolonged expressions of emotion -- Boris' first monologue, for example.

Manual leveling is inconvenient if the platform must be maintained accurately level for any prolonged period of time.

Harper summarizes as follows: " the act of committing sin is not in itself ground for the loss of salvation ... the loss of salvation is much more related to experiences that are profound and prolonged.

Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man's mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

Side-effects include a prolonged QT interval in the heart, which can be dangerous for patients with heart disease or those taking other drugs that prolong the QT interval.

Incandescent and xenon light sources require the vehicle ’ s engine to continue running to ensure that the battery is not depleted when the lights are used for a prolonged period.

Stability of the weaponized agent ( ability of the agent to retain its infectivity and virulence after a prolonged period of storage ) may also be desirable, particularly for military applications.

To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) has investigated the potential health effects of prolonged bicycling in police bicycle patrol units, including the possibility that some bicycle saddles exert excessive pressure on the urogenital area of cyclists, restricting blood flow to the genitals.

Khrone is successful when he imprisons the Baron in a sensory deprivation tank for a prolonged period ; the Baron's memories of his former life return.

However, the album also heralded in an era of prolonged legal trouble for the band.

There were reports that the conflict is being prolonged as a cover for extensive looting of the substantial natural resources in the country, including diamonds, copper, zinc, and coltan.

These changes taken together have been interpreted as a result of an increased emphasis on pair bonding as a possible solution to the requirement for increased parental investment due to the prolonged infancy of offspring.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

In Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by the owners to other uses ( e. g., wine cellars, ski rooms, gyms ).

The lecturers of Shrewsbury College are veterans of the prolonged struggle for academic degrees to women, which Oxford granted only reluctantly ( Sayers herself took part in this struggle ).

A traditional method for investigating suspected hypoglycemia is the oral glucose tolerance test, especially when prolonged to 3, 4, or 5 hours.

His selected replacement for the post was rejected by Parliament, throwing the country into a prolonged period without a government.

A prolonged agricultural depression in Britain at the end of the 19th century, together with the introduction in the 20th century of increasingly heavy levels of taxation on inherited wealth, put an end to agricultural land as the primary source of wealth for the upper classes.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

Since the main sensory organs are anatomically located on the head, long hair provides the necessary warmth and protection in a cold climate that allows the use of these organs by exposing them to the elements to " sense ", in for example a hunt, yet still providing necessary warmth and protection to sustain prolonged exposure.

These favorable developments, combined with the presence of a large and cheap labour force, laid the foundation for spectacular economic growth that lasted almost uninterrupted until the " Hot Autumn's " massive strikes and social unrest of 1969-70, which then combined with the later 1973 oil crisis and put an abrupt end to the prolonged boom.

The only interruptions occurred in 1813-1814, occasioned by the German War of Liberation ( War of the Sixth Coalition ), during which the university was closed, and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, first in 1820 to Paris, London and Oxford with his colleague Johann Karl Thilo ( 1794 – 1853 ) for the examination of rare oriental manuscripts, and in 1835 to England and the Netherlands in connection with his Phoenician studies.

Canto CX opens with a pun on the word wake, conflating the wake of the little boat from the end of the previous canto and an image of Pound waking in his daughter's house in Tyrol, both from sleep and, by extension, from the nightmare of his prolonged incarceration.

Animation critic Charles Solomon was among the minority of critics to dislike the anime, claiming that it " plays like a prolonged soap opera " and finding that " its suggestions of child abuse and neo-Nazi imagery reflect a regrettable lack of taste ".

In 1860, his opera Amelia ossia Il Bandito was met with great success, though two years later, after a prolonged illness, Zajc chose to move to Vienna where opera and theatre were flourishing.

The opera ends in the final, prolonged moment before the bomb is detonated.

On 21 September 2004, Hutchison was appointed Executive Producer of the BBC television soap opera EastEnders, after Executive Producer, Louise Berridge, resigned following prolonged critical and public criticism of the show.