Word: denouement
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...cheated-upon spouses of the world have a new hero, and her name is Jenny Sanford. The wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford announced on Dec. 11 that she is filing for divorce and has handled the denouement of her marriage in a way that makes losing a husband to an affair almost look like a shrewd career move...
...complicated by their growing affection for Tommy. Sheridan has shown before, especially in his semi-autobiographical In America, his gift for directing children, and he gets wonderfully complex shadings from the two girls, Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare. It's the kids who trigger the movie's painful denouement, in which Sam realizes that his searing guilt doesn't fit in a home that was happy until he returned...
...comes to work for him, it (like A Steady Rain) purports to have some street cred. But the thugs who menace the young employee (leaning on him to pay off gambling debts) look like B-movie retreads, the off-screen violence seems manufactured for effect, and the denouement is far more sentimental...
...booze and the people. Drink, dance, and schmooze at the Quad’s most illustrious party spot. Plus, for all you non-Quadlings, expect excellent fodder for conversation on your Shuttle ride home; debrief on all the hottest hook-ups and fashion faux pas at the denouement of a night well spent. Party Suite: Quincy TerraceThere are ways to distinguish the truly great party suites from your garden variety pong table-equipped room, and the fact that it can be found merely by following the smell of beer on a quiet Sunday afternoon places Quincy Terrace solidly...
After two days of arguing about a lightweight brown sneaker that had been lobbed at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he spoke at Cambridge University earlier this year, the verdict came with an air of denouement. On Tuesday, German biomedical research student Martin Jahnke, 27, who had tossed his footwear onto the stage during Wen's speech in protest over China's human-rights record, was found not guilty of a public order offense by the Cambridge Magistrates' Court...