Both Uses of
denouement
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- After which harrowing denouement sufficient to appal the stoutest he snapped the blade to and stowed the weapon in question away as before in his chamber of horrors, otherwise pocket.†
Chpt 16 *
- And then the usual denouement after the fun had gone on fast and furious he got 1190 landed into hot water and had to be spirited away by a few friends, after a strong hint to a blind horse from John Mallon of Lower Castle Yard, so as not to be made amenable under section two of the criminal law amendment act, certain names of those subpoenaed being handed in but not divulged for reasons which will occur to anyone with a pick of brains.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(denouement) the outcome of a complex sequence of events -- especially the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work