“This brief delirium is, however, only a foretaste of the culminant visual disturbance in the novel.”

“The translation represents Dante's autobiography as a prolepsis of the culminant visions in the Paradiso.”

“There was some suggestion elsewhere that the end tip of a tornado is actually a culminant gravitation centre of attraction, whether the tornado has touched down or not.”

“Their interacting narratives alternate, interpenetrate and finally coalesce in the culminating moment of the Messiah episode.”