denouement

, d?nouement

Theatre

a. the final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or other work

b. the point at which this occurs

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While suspicion was to be directed against him, she would be making quiet preparations for a very different denouement. She arrives from Middlingham with all the compromising items in her possession.

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The piece was to have made part of a book which, however, has never been published, and which was to have been entitled: "My Examinations." It was given to me by the Registrar himself, some time after the astonishing denouement to this case, and is unique in judicial chronicles.

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And, after our last adventure of the kind, more especially after its denouement, my trust in Raffles was much too solid to be shaken by a want of trust in me, which I still believe to have been more the instinct of the criminal than the judgment of the man.

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La police et la gendarmerie ont mene vendredi plusieurs patrouilles pour renforcer les dispositifs securitaires pris pour le denouement heureux de la veillee de DJ Arafat sur le terrain de la Sogephia a Abobo, a constate l'AIP.

Cote d'Ivoire/Veille d'Arafat DJ: Des patrouilles menees pour renforcer le dispositif securitaire a Abobo

Denouement, the MA exhibition at the Regent Street campus, began with a private viewing last Friday, August 16.

Students'arts and design show

Ce denouement, a ete rendu possible par une reunion entre le ministre Hichem Ben Ahmed et Samir Majoul.

Annulation de tous les mouvements sociaux des transporteurs

The long-drawn Essar Steel saga seems to be finally heading towards a denouement with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the nodal ministry for IBC, ready to hand over the management of the insolvent firm to AreclorMittal.

MCA awaits nclt order to seal Essar-Mittal deal

Jet-black humour walks hand-inhand with sadism and torture to propel the narrative towards its unconventional denouement.

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Over to Hannah, a perfect choice of ventriloquist who captures the infuriating precision and baffling brilliance of Poirot in a novel that is mostly told through dialogue and builds to a headscratching denouement. The sharp wit of Hannah's own crime novels translates here into a reviving breath for Poirot, who again taps and totters across the pages in precise little clockwork circles.

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The Plot-Structure of Genesis: 'Will the Righteous Seed Survive?' in the Muthos-Logical Movement From Complication to Denouement

Either way, it seems as though his reign of terror might be nearing its denouement.

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Supply And Installation Of Equipment For Secondary 110/20 Kv Slovenian Bistrica, 110 Kv Switchyard In Gis Implementation With The Denouement Lines