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The novel's denouement revealed the true identity of the mysterious stranger, tying together all the loose ends of the plot.denouement = outcome
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Everyone was astonished by the denouement of the case.
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She remembered reading them in Mr. Pierce's seventh-grade English class, talking about symbolism, metaphors, and denouement. (source)denouement = the final resolution of the main complication of a literary work
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Upon hearing this denouement, the Count felt a great sense of relief.† (source)
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This ....well, I've heard of denouement, but this is ridiculous.† (source)
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I now had a choice of slipping away and insulting my host or staying and becoming entangled in Chablis's inevitable denouement.† (source)
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Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.† (source)
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Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.† (source)
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It was not until close upon six o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Finally, he summed up the dénouement in Gosseberga which led to Salander's being shot and buried alive, and explained how a policeman's death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been captured.† (source)
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I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Berger and Eriksson had talked through what needed to be done, but the immediate situation was complicated by the fact that Blomkvist and Berger knew what role Salander had played in the denouement of the Wennerström affair—in her capacity as elite-level hacker she had been Blomkvist's secret source.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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I thought there was going to be a denouement of tragic scope.† (source)
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