Example sentences for: climactic

How can you use “climactic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She thinks I will approve, imagines me the anti- climactic aging matron of her future: a beaming, wistful blur.

  • It's hard to tell, since so much has been left off-screen--including a climactic discussion between the boy and his stepfather that triggers the film's absurd ending.

  • Adrian is smarmily insulated from his past; Ricky, whom Annie and Hannah stumble on in the film's climactic scene, has let his past eat him alive.

  • Dissenters call the film "snappy and ingratiating" ( Slate 's David Edelstein) and "completely enjoyable and, at its climactic moments, thrilling" ( New York magazine's David Denby).

  • At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.


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