What's the difference between denouement and outcome?

Denouement


Definition:

  • (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
  • (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some expected a grand finale, a denouement in which the problems raised by the ruling of the European court of justice against Google on the so-called “right to be forgotten” would be resolved.
  • (2) That Norwich now sit 14th in the Premier League, four points clear of the bottom three, underlines the difference that one good result can make as the season's denouement draws close.
  • (3) At the episode’s denouement, Pat discovers Katie’s doll behind a box of chocolates – it was there the whole time!
  • (4) A Brazilian World Cup that started amid fears over protests and corruption but became a paean to the best of international football concluded with a tense final and a dramatic denouement.
  • (5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
  • (6) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (7) Diamé’s wonderful effort that curled into the top corner came after concerted pressure throughout this dramatic denouement to the Championship season.
  • (8) When Zidane retired from playing after leading France to the World Cup final in 2006 – player of the tournament in Germany despite his infamous denouement – the midfielder did not intend to move into coaching.
  • (9) The final denouement has just played out in the French Parliament with an announcement last week which makes specific reference to resistance in the South that all existing shale gas permits and authorisations have been annulled.
  • (10) In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the tragic denouement can be attributed directly to the consequences of the Great Plague.
  • (11) An amnesty, which does not have the support of the State Department, would represent a surprising denouement to an international drama that has lasted half a year .
  • (12) West Ham’s signing of the season provided the dramatic denouement.
  • (13) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
  • (14) The first is Cyprus, where long-running, UN-brokered talks on reunification are inching towards some sort of denouement.
  • (15) People are quick to write off women’s sprinters but we have shown that we can peak on this stage and in front of a strong field.” There was a dramatic denouement, too, in the long jump, where England’s prospects had suffered the worst possible start.
  • (16) With over 400 invited race veterans in attendance for Sunday's denouement, there was one conspicuous absentee.
  • (17) Middlesbrough promoted to the Premier League: five things they must do now Read more That sending off left Chris Hughton’s side – who despite finishing level on points with Boro have a marginally inferior goal difference and must now face the dreaded play-off lottery – with nothing to lose and their desperate attacking urgency made for a tense denouement.
  • (18) And it reaches its usually unseen, often fatal denouement in the waters off northern Libya, as a growing number of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants desperately bids to reach Italy and Greece by sea.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was hard to see Laura cry’, says her mother – video Bassett and the rest of Sampson’s squad must travel back to London via Saturday’s third place playoff against Germany, while Japan will face USA in the following day’s denouement.
  • (20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"

Outcome


Definition:

  • (n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (4) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
  • (5) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (6) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (7) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
  • (8) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (9) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (10) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (11) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.
  • (12) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
  • (13) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (14) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (15) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (16) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (17) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
  • (18) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (19) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
  • (20) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.

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