All 7 Uses of
climax
in
The Idiot
- here's the climax at last, at half-past twelve!" cried Nastasia Philipovna.†
Chpt 1.14
- I am very sorry, and ask your forgiveness, but it cannot be helped—and I should be very grateful if you could all stay and witness this climax.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- "Ha, ha, ha!" she cried, "this is an unexpected climax, after all.†
Chpt 1.16
- I had taken hold of the door-handle meanwhile, intending to leave the room without reply; but I was panting with my run upstairs, and my exhaustion came to a climax in a violent fit of coughing, so bad that I could hardly stand.†
Chpt 3.6
- Sometimes, thinking over this, I became quite numb with the terror of it; and I might well have deduced from this fact, that my 'last conviction' was eating into my being too fast and too seriously, and would undoubtedly come to its climax before long.†
Chpt 3.6
- And for the climax I needed greater determination than I yet possessed.†
Chpt 3.6
- She was only waiting for the hour that would bring the matter to a final climax; and every hint, every careless probing of her wound, did but further lacerate her heart.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
the most exciting or important part of a story, musical piece, or other thing that has a series of events