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  • The conflict was realistic and handled well and the denoument is such a treat.

    Friday Book Club & Interview with Mary E. Pearson: The Adoration of Jenna Fox Nalini Singh 2009

  • The denoument is again clever in its own way and to tell would be to spoil, but be ready to cheer uncontrollably at something ghastly but completely deserved and then shout "oh drat" a few pages later.

    50 entries from June 2007 2007

  • The denoument is again clever in its own way and to tell would be to spoil, but be ready to cheer uncontrollably at something ghastly but completely deserved and then shout "oh drat" a few pages later.

    Who Are You? 2007

  • The denoument is again clever in its own way and to tell would be to spoil, but be ready to cheer uncontrollably at something ghastly but completely deserved and then shout "oh drat" a few pages later.

    Who Are You? 2007

  • love this! and the word denoument is something I don't hear a lot of

    Denouement floreta 2009

  • There’s a chapter, maybe half a chapter, of what would’ve been denoument from the original synopsis, but there have been enough changes to where that section was going as to pretty much dismiss it as relevant in the scheme of finishing the original book’s storyline.

    part one finished 2008

  • And, while it was a disappointment to have no denoument, that is part of post-modernist literature.

    Everything2 New Writeups Glowing Fish 2010

  • The beginning of season 4 was kind of denoument after that.

    Matthew Yglesias » Short and Sweet 2007

  • Clearly Patti could have gone on for hours -- she invited anyone from the audience to join them onstage, but when she returned to the stage and brought a kind of denoument, Sinclair shuffled his papers together and got up.

    Archive 2005-07-01 K. A. Laity 2005

  • Clearly Patti could have gone on for hours -- she invited anyone from the audience to join them onstage, but when she returned to the stage and brought a kind of denoument, Sinclair shuffled his papers together and got up.

    Patti Smith's Meltdown (featuring Alan Moore) K. A. Laity 2005

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