Okay, we have a climax on the top of the Chrysler building, but what a climax.
Narrowly defined, a cliffhanger is a climax cracked in half: the bomb ticks, the screen goes black.
Now each presidency works towards a climax of decisions at summits normally held in June and December.
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In the ruins of a church on Portland Bill in Dorset, the hand-fasting ceremony is reaching a climax.
Handel-worship reached a climax in a series of festivals at London's Crystal Palace in the late 19th century.
Such a pattern is confirmed only upon completion, but it is a dead give away of a climax.
But in contrast to the Jain temple, the viewer's attention is drawn decisively toward a climax in the presbytery.
The opposite of a buying climax is a selling climax, which is a bullish sign that a stock has bottomed.
It was violence like this, which we witnessed on December 2006, that reached a climax in the second week of June 2007.
When push comes to shove, the brothers do the right thing in a climax so stock you could use it to make gravy.
The film comes to a climax with a ferocious argument in a tiny room, a scene that is half Marx Brothers, half Sophocles.
It reached a climax in 1913 when fellow suffragette Emily Davison was killed as she rushed out at the Derby to bring down the King's horse.
Brand brings this part of the show to a climax by reading out posts from The Times website which highlight the absurdity of some of the public reaction.
At the start of the fourth day Bickerton trailed New Zealand's Michael Campbell by a shot and established a three-shot advantage as the round came to a climax.
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Sibling rivalry reached a climax of sorts with the fabulous (in both senses) Busang gold deposit in Kalimantan, claimed as among the world's biggest until shown to be a hoax.
At Phoenix Pulp and Paper, for example, the country's largest supplier of pulp for paper, a five-year battle between the controlling shareholder, a foreign company, and acquisitive Thai politicians is reaching a climax.
Perhaps the most telling piece in the morning newspapers is in the Times, where chief football correspondent Matt Dickinson says the snag with England's headhunting reaching a climax is that there isn't one.
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The three-day discussion will provide a climax to a debate about drug safety that began when Vioxx was pulled from the market for doubling the risk of heart attacks and strokes at high doses over long-term use.
U.K. club king Calvin Harris trades Rihanna's usual somber synths for disco ecstasy on ''We Found Love, '' a song that builds and builds to a climax that's so arena-ready it practically begs for someone to blow a vuvuzela.
"Remembrance, " for instance, begins with softly plucked notes on the guitar and slowly incorporates the banjo, strings section, and drums until all the instruments energetically meet in a climax before breaking back down into the song's quiet resolution.
The World Cup reaches a climax Sunday at the same venue, with hosts New Zealand hoping to lift the Webb Ellis trophy for the first time in 24 years when they take on France, who have never won the tournament.
The deal market is grinding to a halt after a sustained boom that reached a climax in the spring with six of the largest buyouts ever, including Blackstone's deal for Equity Office Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' deals for TXU and First Data, among others.
In a dramatic climax on a soaking track, Hamilton passed Raikkonen, lost the lead again with a spin, re-took it and then saw Raikkonen crash.
They played the cannier game in conditions that were always likely to deny us all a proper climax, and England were a good 30 runs away from setting a seriously competitive target.
Kiryienka was denied a first win for Belarus by a matter of centimetres in a thrilling climax which was at odds with a pedestrian stage.
The match deserved a blistering climax and got one as Goode grabbed a try five minutes from the end.
In a thrilling climax Sale pushed desperately for the win, a late Macleod penalty reducing the deficit to just five points, but the Devon outfit kept their composure to record a fifth Premiership win from nine games.
Australia lost the first Test of the series by one wicket after a thrilling climax in Mohali.
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