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the outcome of a complex sequence of events — especially the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work- Everyone was astonished by the denouement of the case.
denouement = the outcome of a complex sequence of events — especially the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
- While suspicion was to be directed against him, she would be making quiet preparations for a very different denouement.Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- She remembered reading them in Mr. Pierce's seventh-grade English class, talking about symbolism, metaphors, and denouement.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- Roth's later fiction has often fought shy of the consolations of denouement, of resolving into major-key finales:Bharat Tandon -- "Philip Roth and the consolations of denouement", The Times Literary Supplement, 9/26/07 -- http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article2537908.ece?EMC-Bltn (retrieved 03/19/09)
- The denouement had come as an additional blow.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- "What an amazing denouement that was," I said.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- He was impatient as the jest elaborately rolled on to its denouement.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- "I don't think you would have cared for its DENOUEMENT," he said with sudden grimness.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- I thought there was going to be a denouement of tragic scope.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- He began laughing and as he laughed, he moved in with amazing speed and grace for the denouement.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- It was probably this universal concurrence that had saved Billford's practice — if not his head — following the ghastly denouement.Stephen King -- Misery
- They considered the enormous English wickedness in silence, overwhelmed by its denouement.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- He was not sorry for the denouement of his visit: he only wished it had come sooner, and spared him a certain waste of emotion.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- He had no intention, as yet, of regulating the denouement.Henry James -- Washington Square
- The tension began to build, and I found myself clutching the telescope as I waited for the denouement, wondering what had prompted George's swift transformation.Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
- Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- He waited until 10:00 p.m. before he gave up and drove back to Norsjö, where he had a late dinner and then went to bed to read the denouement of Val McDermid's novel.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- After years of watching women quietly accept abuse, it is cathartic to see someone like Usha lead a countercharge—even if we're uncomfortable with the bloody denouement and cannot condone murder.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- The rebirths/baptisms have a lot of common threads, but every drowning is serving its own purpose: character revelation, thematic development of violence or failure or guilt, plot complication or denouement.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
denouement = the final resolution of the main complication of a literary work
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