denouement

• But the denouement is not the same; and the fundamental difference of temperament between the two artists is strongly marked. —  Musicians of To-Day
• Dumas' idea was that the denouement is a mathematical total, and that before writing the first word of a piece the author must know the end and have decided the action. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• "He must be free of magic for the denouement, as is our custom." —  A Spell for Chameleon
• Perhaps it may be thought that she has seldom written anything more brilliant; and that, independent of the original manner in which the denouement is brought about, the pictures of Charles Musgrove's good-natured boyishness and of his wife's jealous selfishness would have been incomplete without these finishing strokes. —  Memoir of Jane Austen
• The warm expression in it of sympathy with the poetry of Robert Browning, whom she did not yet know personally, is especially interesting to readers of this later day, who, like the spectators at a Greek tragedy, watch the development of a drama of which the denouement is already known to them. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)

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