They don't think beyond the climactic moment to the fact they won't be there to savor it.

And at the climactic moment of each event, it was not music or drama or group therapy or video we wanted.

The film's climactic moment finds the hero sitting in an empty theatre, desperately waiting for someone to show up.

Biopics need to choose a climactic moment in a life.

Episodes which end in the middle of a climactic moment are often called cliffhangers, after the name used for early movie serials.