Example sentences for: climax

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

  • For a work whose "climax" depends on feelings of the most passionate revulsion to be esteemed ahead of your own labors, so far superior as to be undeserving of inclusion in the same tormented sentence, is, my dearest Edith, an insult insufferable to all whose reverence for literature anglais is to be warranted.

  • Not even Robert Altman, who parodied this sort of climax in The Player , was cynical enough to let his sellout filmmaker play the intravenous card.

  • Nearly 30 years ago, Sam Peckinpah devised a massacre at the climax of The Wild Bunch that he thought would take the casualness out of killing.

  • Fans of James Dean will recognize the Observatory — it was the scene of the climax of Rebel Without a Cause.

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.


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