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Example sentences for: climax

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In The Big Lebowski , the climax is so farcically arbitrary--one character drops dead of a heart attack--that the Coens seem to be laughing at their own inability to wrap things up.
Fans of James Dean will recognize the Observatory — it was the scene of the climax of Rebel Without a Cause.
Take the mountain road 14 km (81/2 miles) south to Moraine Lake — nice drive, wonderful all-day hike — to view the sawtooth skyline of the Valley of the Ten Peaks and the exhilarating climax of the lake’s clear turquoise waters.
That the emotional climax of Kubrick's last movie is Tom Cruise screwing up his face and feigning a tragic awareness while a piano goes plink ...
So goes Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes , a thriller of serpentine excitement all the way up to that dud of a climax.