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.

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.

Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career — the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm, and grew in wisdom.

At the climax, O appears as a slave, nude but for an owl-like mask, before a large party of guests who treat her solely as an object.

The climax of the Enkōmia comes during the third stásis, with the antiphon " Ō glyký mou Éar ", a lamentation of the Virgin for her dead Child (" O, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty gone ?").

The climax of the film was shot months after the rest of the film, and was intended to soften Dominique's image ; Kieślowski has said that he was dissatisfied with the ending shot previously and wanted her to seem less of a monster.

For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair ( described as the " emotional climax of his life ") with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide by throwing herself in Regent's Canal.

One of the enduring images of Gish's silent film years is the climax of the melodramatic Way Down East, in which Gish's character floats unconscious on an ice floe towards a raging waterfall, her long hair trailing in the water.

The whole thing rises to a climax when Sasha and her hilarious horde of vivacious vestal virgins unite in that unclad climax, that orgiastic ecstasy at the tail end of our performance, the passion dance of love.

But the wise reader, remembering other tales of Mrs. Christie's, will murmur to himself ' I trust her not ; odds on she is fooling me ,' and so will continue to a climax it is not ' odds on ' but a dead cert he will not have guessed.

But at her climax he burst into tears.

McDowell's script also featured a second Deetz child, nine-year-old Cathy, the only person able to see the Maitlands and the subject of Betelgeuse's homicidal wrath in the film's climax, during which he mutilates her while in the form of a rabid squirrel before revealing his true form.

When Isaac was born to Sarah ( Sarai ), the relationship between Hagar and her mistress had come to a climax.

Unfortunately, Scarlett is too insecure and vain to realize her pursuit of Ashley was misdirected until the climax of the novel.

Throughout the film, she is pregnant with a child, and her newborn baby is born at the film's climax.

In the climax and dénouement, Annabelle becomes overwhelmed by the difficulties of her situation, apparent disappearance of her mother, loss of the children, and the question of how her odd situation came about and when / whether it will be resolved.

Mary Rodgers also added a hobby for Annabelle to the story, with an important competitionfor which her mother lacks the skillserving to bring the action to a climax.

The climax takes place in the Emerald City, where Ozma wishes ( using her magic belt ) for a large amount of dust to appear in the tunnel.

The climax, or turning point, would be when Phaedra hears Hippolytus react badly because of her love for him.

Indeed, far from being a radical or threatening manifestation of womanhood, recent academics have noted the extent to which the character of She conforms to traditional conceptions of Victorian femininity ; in particular her deferring devotion to Kallikrates / Leo, whom she swears wifely obedience to at the story's climax: "' Behold!

It ’ s also possible that she witnessed the aegir on the Trent, which inspired the flood in her story ’ s climax.

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 ).

This is especially true of the narrative climax of his account, the sack in 456 of the Suevi capital at Braga by the Visigothic king Theodoric II, acting in the service of the Roman emperor Avitus.

" Especially in Mommsen's third volume, as the narrative told of how the political crisis in the Roman Republic came to its final climax, " he wrote with a fire of imagination and emotion almost unknown in a professional history.

In the climax of the movie, she is engulfed in a fiery aura as she holds back a tsunami of water from a burst dam to save the other X-Men.

The former stubbornly sits at his table eating his breakfast, impulsively cursing the Nazis as his wife pleads with him to go to the shelter, while the latter is about to climax with the prostitute on top of him when suddenly, frightened by the bombs, she runs away in horror thus forcing him to finish himself off.

If permitted, during a lap dance the dancer grinds against the customer's crotch while he or she ( typically he ) remains clothed in an attempt to arouse or bring the recipient to climax.

However, she did worry that a shocking climax may be a nightmare factory for young reader.

Beginning in 1961, she was also featured as a live performer who flew through the sky at the climax of some of the nightly fireworks displays.

At the climax, she is indirectly responsible for Xavier's paralysis, as she fires the bullet which Magneto deflects accidentally into Xavier's spine.

In a dramatic climax Pavla is brutally murdered by her superiors when they detonate a bomb inside her head believing she has fallen into the hands of the Secret Intelligence Services.

Hundred Eyes rank # 1-A mysterious assassin, no one really knows who he or she is until the climax of the film.

Carmen is absent for most of the movie, and she only appears near the film's climax.

As The 10th Kingdom begins, she escapes to cause further destruction, and at the climax of the series she is killed by the main protagonist, her daughter, Virginia.

At the climax of the film, she becomes a withered old crone once again and is later throttled to death by the numerous dwarves whom she had turned to stone who have now been released from her spell.

In July 1996 she spoke at the Family Federation for World Peace's Inaugural World Convention at the National Building Museum in Washington, D. C .. Han's closing address was the climax of the proceedings, and was called the " Founder's Address ".

As she draws the net closer, and runs into more danger and more official opposition, the movie more or less helplessly starts thinking to itself about that cliff above the sea, but at least the climax shows us that Bullock can stay in character no matter what.

According to Jim Shooter, had the series not been canceled prematurely, Projectra's scheme would ultimately climax with her resurrecting the people of Orando though they would be mindless due to the Legion ( with help from Saturn Girl, who frees herself from Saturn Girl's control ) and Projectra's parents ( their minds the first ones Projectra restored ), who reject their daughter for the evil she has committed.

The clear and searching sweep of sun on the lawns was like a climax of the year's lights.

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.