The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, […] But the denouement should not be confused with the end of a story.

She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.

Ladies, gentlemen, I bid you adieu.

One must agree that the formulas they commend to Democratic politicians as a means of distancing themselves from student unrest and so on are crude; and the Uriah Heepishness of Hubert Humphrey's American Bar Association speech (apparently written by Wattenberg) was hardly attractive.