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• “TRINCOMALEE Sri Lanka Just north of here, after a string of recent victories, the Sri Lankan military is closing in on separatist rebels in what it calls the climactic battles of the countrys long-running civil war.”

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• “And oddly, since you mention The Crucible: I have a term for certain climactic moments, a "God's Icy Wind" moment.”

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• “That last scene in the desert w/Tony was the right note to end the series. what occured afterward was post-climactic from a thematic standpoint.”

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• “While climate change is the most probable explanation for this phenomenon, the lack of long term climactic data for the area makes it impossible for the researchers to officially confirm this.”

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• “It’s customary for unexpected help to show up at the last moment in climactic fantasy battles, but Hinck throws no less than three deus ex machinas at us, one of which has not the faintest hint of foreshadowing (it involves the arrival of some “lost tribes”).”

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• “Unfortunately the analysis is very much based on the idea of climactic battle.”

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• “In scientific terms, they are called climactic pulses.”

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• “Dickerson admits to one frustration with the film, namely the climactic showdown in which the protagonist Q Omar Epps loses his grip of Bishop, who's dangling from a rooftop.”

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• “Barack Obama's speech on race recalled the climactic scene from "The American President" when Michael Douglas decries the politics of division and urges "serious people" to address”

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• “In Kill Bill — Volume 1, you get to see (among other things) a fight to the death between two young women, one of whom ends up impaled by an enormous kitchen knife before the wide eyes of her young daughter; a pregnant woman being savagely beaten and then shot in the head at point-blank range on her wedding day; a man's tongue being pulled out; a graphic decapitation with a samurai sword; torsos sliced open; impalings with various instruments; and, in a scene that you'd be tempted to call climactic if the movie had any kind of narrative arc whatsoever, a twenty-minute-long pitched battle between a lone American female and dozens of Tokyo gangsters, in which the limbs of a great many of the latter get lopped off.”

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