Definition of denouement in English:

denouement

(also dénouement)

noundeɪˈnuːmɒ̃ˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃

1The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous
Example sentencesExamples
- As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it.
- The result is that the denouement of the film is nowhere near as hopeful or emotional as it should be, and the overall message is exposed as weak.
- As the film moves to its denouement, it reverts more to formula with airborne bang-whack-pow style fights between good guy and bad.
- There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together.
- They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction.
- In the notes, you said the script was a little bit like getting a denouement of a film, rather like the third act all in one piece, and viewers have to learn about the characters as they go along.
- The denouement of the final twist in the plot is so startling and funny that the laughter must surely have been heard above the traffic outside the theatre.
- It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy.
- Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical.
- The stage was now set for the final denouement in a two-handed drama.
- The plays require neither plot structure nor plausible dénouement to produce the recurring fantasy of woman's life in the absence of men.
- It is this moment of rupture which carries the denouement of the film into relatively unexplored territory in Australian landscape cinema.
- As if to reinforce the point, the final denouement, which takes place on live TV, is staged off-screen.
- As the novel reaches its denouement, the reader begins to see the astonishing mental strength of this woman.
- The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it.
- The poem doesn't reach a climax or any sense of denouement in this final installation.
- Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.
- There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled.
- To explore the intricacies of the plot further would give away the denouement and spoil any pleasure that might be culled from the evening.
- None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
Synonyms
finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close
culmination, climax, conclusion, resolution, solution, clarification, unravelling
informal wind-up
1. 1.1 The outcome of a situation, when something is decided or made clear.
  I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement
  Example sentencesExamples
  I've decided that I will share here with readers the entire progress of one applicant's exchange of correspondence with the agency in regards to a claim, the genesis and discussion of the matter, and the dénouement.
  New generations would tell and retell the story of the Revolution itself, with different accounts of the rising action, climax, and dénouement, and with different heroes and villains.
  This also means that in the court of public opinion the tournament director stands totally vindicated by the way the championship has unfolded regardless of its remaining finals' denouements.
  You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is?
  When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves.
  It could well be the precipitating event for the final denouement in this extraordinary period of financial history.
  Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement.
  Being grounded in the basics of law, the legal battle which started from the Paravur Municipal Court, had a successful denouement at the Supreme Court.
  Synonyms
  outcome, upshot, consequence, result, end result, end, ending, termination, culmination, climax
  informal pay-off
  dated issue
  archaic success

Origin

Mid 18th century: French dénouement, from dénouer 'unknot'.

Definition of denouement in US English:

denouement

nounˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃ˌdāno͞oˈmäN

1The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Example sentencesExamples
- As if to reinforce the point, the final denouement, which takes place on live TV, is staged off-screen.
- The poem doesn't reach a climax or any sense of denouement in this final installation.
- None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
- As the novel reaches its denouement, the reader begins to see the astonishing mental strength of this woman.
- To explore the intricacies of the plot further would give away the denouement and spoil any pleasure that might be culled from the evening.
- Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.
- As the film moves to its denouement, it reverts more to formula with airborne bang-whack-pow style fights between good guy and bad.
- Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical.
- There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together.
- The stage was now set for the final denouement in a two-handed drama.
- It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy.
- It is this moment of rupture which carries the denouement of the film into relatively unexplored territory in Australian landscape cinema.
- In the notes, you said the script was a little bit like getting a denouement of a film, rather like the third act all in one piece, and viewers have to learn about the characters as they go along.
- The result is that the denouement of the film is nowhere near as hopeful or emotional as it should be, and the overall message is exposed as weak.
- The plays require neither plot structure nor plausible dénouement to produce the recurring fantasy of woman's life in the absence of men.
- There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled.
- They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction.
- The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it.
- The denouement of the final twist in the plot is so startling and funny that the laughter must surely have been heard above the traffic outside the theatre.
- As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it.
Synonyms
finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close
1. 1.1 The climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear.
  I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement
  Example sentencesExamples
  Being grounded in the basics of law, the legal battle which started from the Paravur Municipal Court, had a successful denouement at the Supreme Court.
  New generations would tell and retell the story of the Revolution itself, with different accounts of the rising action, climax, and dénouement, and with different heroes and villains.
  You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is?
  I've decided that I will share here with readers the entire progress of one applicant's exchange of correspondence with the agency in regards to a claim, the genesis and discussion of the matter, and the dénouement.
  It could well be the precipitating event for the final denouement in this extraordinary period of financial history.
  This also means that in the court of public opinion the tournament director stands totally vindicated by the way the championship has unfolded regardless of its remaining finals' denouements.
  When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves.
  Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement.
  Synonyms
  outcome, upshot, consequence, result, end result, end, ending, termination, culmination, climax

Origin

Mid 18th century: French dénouement, from dénouer ‘unknot’.

单词	denouement
释义	Definition of denouement in English: denouement (also dénouement) noundeɪˈnuːmɒ̃ˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃ 1The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous Example sentencesExamples As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it. The result is that the denouement of the film is nowhere near as hopeful or emotional as it should be, and the overall message is exposed as weak. As the film moves to its denouement, it reverts more to formula with airborne bang-whack-pow style fights between good guy and bad. There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together. They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction. In the notes, you said the script was a little bit like getting a denouement of a film, rather like the third act all in one piece, and viewers have to learn about the characters as they go along. The denouement of the final twist in the plot is so startling and funny that the laughter must surely have been heard above the traffic outside the theatre. It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy. Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical. The stage was now set for the final denouement in a two-handed drama. The plays require neither plot structure nor plausible dénouement to produce the recurring fantasy of woman's life in the absence of men. It is this moment of rupture which carries the denouement of the film into relatively unexplored territory in Australian landscape cinema. As if to reinforce the point, the final denouement, which takes place on live TV, is staged off-screen. As the novel reaches its denouement, the reader begins to see the astonishing mental strength of this woman. The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it. The poem doesn't reach a climax or any sense of denouement in this final installation. Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit. There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled. To explore the intricacies of the plot further would give away the denouement and spoil any pleasure that might be culled from the evening. None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes. Synonyms finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close culmination, climax, conclusion, resolution, solution, clarification, unravelling informal wind-up 1.1 The outcome of a situation, when something is decided or made clear. I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement Example sentencesExamples I've decided that I will share here with readers the entire progress of one applicant's exchange of correspondence with the agency in regards to a claim, the genesis and discussion of the matter, and the dénouement. New generations would tell and retell the story of the Revolution itself, with different accounts of the rising action, climax, and dénouement, and with different heroes and villains. This also means that in the court of public opinion the tournament director stands totally vindicated by the way the championship has unfolded regardless of its remaining finals' denouements. You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is? When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves. It could well be the precipitating event for the final denouement in this extraordinary period of financial history. Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement. Being grounded in the basics of law, the legal battle which started from the Paravur Municipal Court, had a successful denouement at the Supreme Court. Synonyms outcome, upshot, consequence, result, end result, end, ending, termination, culmination, climax informal pay-off dated issue archaic success Origin Mid 18th century: French dénouement, from dénouer 'unknot'. Definition of denouement in US English: denouement nounˌdeɪnuˈmɑ̃ˌdāno͞oˈmäN 1The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. Example sentencesExamples As if to reinforce the point, the final denouement, which takes place on live TV, is staged off-screen. The poem doesn't reach a climax or any sense of denouement in this final installation. None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes. As the novel reaches its denouement, the reader begins to see the astonishing mental strength of this woman. To explore the intricacies of the plot further would give away the denouement and spoil any pleasure that might be culled from the evening. Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit. As the film moves to its denouement, it reverts more to formula with airborne bang-whack-pow style fights between good guy and bad. Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical. There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together. The stage was now set for the final denouement in a two-handed drama. It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy. It is this moment of rupture which carries the denouement of the film into relatively unexplored territory in Australian landscape cinema. In the notes, you said the script was a little bit like getting a denouement of a film, rather like the third act all in one piece, and viewers have to learn about the characters as they go along. The result is that the denouement of the film is nowhere near as hopeful or emotional as it should be, and the overall message is exposed as weak. The plays require neither plot structure nor plausible dénouement to produce the recurring fantasy of woman's life in the absence of men. There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled. They borrowed their tropes, plots, and denouements from an American cultural tradition that included theories, artworks, and stories that linked nostalgia and extinction. The film opens with the denouement, the murder-suicide, and then recounts the events that preceded it. The denouement of the final twist in the plot is so startling and funny that the laughter must surely have been heard above the traffic outside the theatre. As the music built to a final denouement a bright city rose behind the dancers and they joyfully went to enter it. Synonyms finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close 1.1 The climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear. I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement Example sentencesExamples Being grounded in the basics of law, the legal battle which started from the Paravur Municipal Court, had a successful denouement at the Supreme Court. New generations would tell and retell the story of the Revolution itself, with different accounts of the rising action, climax, and dénouement, and with different heroes and villains. You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is? I've decided that I will share here with readers the entire progress of one applicant's exchange of correspondence with the agency in regards to a claim, the genesis and discussion of the matter, and the dénouement. It could well be the precipitating event for the final denouement in this extraordinary period of financial history. This also means that in the court of public opinion the tournament director stands totally vindicated by the way the championship has unfolded regardless of its remaining finals' denouements. When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves. Cassady's situation has the ironies of a contrived novelistic denouement. Synonyms outcome, upshot, consequence, result, end result, end, ending, termination, culmination, climax Origin Mid 18th century: French dénouement, from dénouer ‘unknot’.
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