climax
Finally, the climactic moment came.
A new element entered into the climactic final weeks of the election campaign.
The climactic event was the 400-meter relay.

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climactic | American Dictionary

climactic
adjective
us/klɑɪˈmæk·tɪk/
being the most important or exciting point in a story or situation:
She was marvelous in the climactic sleepwalking scene in Macbeth.

Examples of climactic

climactic
And this repeated aside leads to the faster, climactic stretta.
Both moments occur at climactic junctures in the ceremony.
Even the climactic moments of the evening substitute teasing collections of imagery and text for a tidy conclusion and denouement.
Yet at the expected climactic moment of the final phrase, the entire ensemble suddenly retreats, leaving only the slide guitar.
What would be more obvious to the two actors than to deliver this moving climactic ending from downstage?
At the climactic moment in the story, they reveal their gifts and simultaneously discover what each has given up to buy them.
The group then moves on to the climactic episode of the film, and the starring patient: a case of conversion hysteria.
In conclusion, this is an important micro-study of those two centuries before the climactic revolutions that distinguish the early modern from the modern world.
This passage pushes the factors of volume, register, note density, and rhythmic activity toward the performance's climactic peak of intensity.
The measured accumulation of phrase upon phrase builds the intensity of the stanza towards the climactic emotional outpouring.
Apart from the climactic section, the sounds are deliberately separated by silence or by their different timbres.
It was at this climactic point that the social changes in its satellites were quickest and most violent.
Then, in the climactic encounter, he confronts his father directly in front of those drinking and dining in the cabaret.
The piece is, however, rather more than a technical exercise, the climactic threnody and final elegy achieving real eloquence.
Such a piece normally involves a climactic, revelatory utterance, not infrequently delivered in extremis.
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