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Apogee

noun

A final climactic stage. Synonym: culmination.

Apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth.

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"Apogee" Quotes from Famous Books

... they are at apogee of sartorial ridiculousness I maintain that the garments of women, from the comfort standpoint, anyhow, are not any more foolish than the garments to which the average man is incurably addicted. If women are vassals to fashion ...

— 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!' • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... These passages represent the apogee of the neoclassical criticism of pastoral poetry. No other critic who wrote on the pastoral depends so completely on the authority of the classical critics and poets. As a matter of fact, Rapin himself is not so absolute later. In the section of the Reflexions on the pastoral, he merely states ...

— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin

... might lose her character of genial hostess if she were to interfere too markedly, she retired and sat down helpless. And so the dance whizzed on with cumulative fury, the performers moving in their planet-like courses, direct and retrograde, from apogee to perigee, till the hand of the well-kicked clock at the bottom of the room had travelled over the circumference of ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... received in silence, as it was in the days to which the penmen still point as an era when art was at its apogee. And here we come upon the oft-repeated apology of the critic for existing at all, and find how complete is his stultification. He brands himself as the necessary blister for the health of the painter, and writes ...

— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler

... the sounder and the safer of the two. But the professional politician was then unthought of; he came as the result of several conditions incident to our national development; he has perhaps already touched his apogee, and is beginning to disappear. The nation has awakened to a realization that its interests are not safe in ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

Words linked to "Apogee" : perigee, stage, phase, apogean, apoapsis, point of apoapsis