Sometimes, as in a climactic cross-cultural encounter at the edge of the forest, this augments the film's power and mystery.

Each area includes its own challenge, ranging from images that come to life and attack to pools of dangerous fish to a climactic encounter with an iron golem.

With the dragon armies in pursuit, the Heroes are either chased or captured and taken to the climactic encounter of the First Book of Dragonlance.

The climactic encounter of "Black Dogs" is a dark echo of a hike that McEwan took in France with his friend Jon Cook, a professor of literature at the University of East Anglia.

He then stage-manages the climactic final encounter of the novel, a boxing match between Jerry and Emile.

At a climactic encounter in the forest of Ephraim (chapter 18), the rebellion is crushed, and Absalom--despite David's orders to the contrary--is slain in battle.

The outcome may not be known until early next year, but in the six months leading up to the climactic encounter today the judicial inquest has torn holes in the fraternal secrecy of the security establishment.

In a climactic encounter, a laptop hooked up to the Mycroft Ward database is thrown into the mouth of the Ludovician, destroying both.

Be warned: the lovers' climactic encounter, in which Ms. Huppert is physically brutalized, is hard to watch (Holden).

As a result, the climactic encounter between Mr. Beatty and Mr. Fraser's Brick, a defeated hulk adrift in a sea of booze, is as compelling as anything now in the London theater.