"And that," he'd say to the woman with great relish as she stood there, her mouth hanging open, "is what we call closure."
Although the service was meant to bring what is called "closure" to the disaster, there remain so many matters unfinished.
Gives a new meaning to what the Yanks call closure these days.
It is also called closure or, informally, a guillotine.
Such endings provided a punctuation mark, finality, what Oprah acolytes call closure.
But he prefers to call it closure rather than catharsis.
Like its uniform cousin discussed above, there is a concept of closure, called strong triadic closure.
We want to believe that the wounds of Vietnam have long since been anesthetized by the panacea we call closure.
Clearly there is no possibility of that absolving phenomenon called closure.
I hope this finally quells your constant quest for what you so tritely call closure.