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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?"

Result


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To leap back; to rebound.
  • (v. i.) To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
  • (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
  • (n.) A flying back; resilience.
  • (n.) That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
  • (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
  • (2) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (3) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (4) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
  • (5) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (7) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (8) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
  • (9) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (10) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (11) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (12) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (13) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (14) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
  • (15) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
  • (16) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (17) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (18) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (19) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
  • (20) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.

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