Consequently, there's not much dramatic payoff when Shirley, realizing she has no place among the living, bids her son a final farewell and heads back to the grave.

But the book's most dramatic payoff is its concluding explanation for the recent "pacification of the past" by scholars.

Normally, that understanding, a vindication of Hannah's belief in the "broken gates between people," is the dramatic payoff.

The dramatic payoff of Sally's and Matt's moments of release amount to less than the overall sense of late-blooming ardor.

Leaving an audience in doubt about KC's undaunted relentlessness is an ineffectual compromise, not a dramatic payoff.

In their internecine battle, Grandma and Bella are unsupported by a playwright who is unwilling to go all the way to a dramatic payoff.

Although the play has its repetitive moments, it gathers itself for the conclusion, a dramatic payoff for both characters as confidence men.

Here, the lack of dramatic payoff feels simply flat, and the verbal swagger of Thompson's protagonist becomes monotonous.

They said they'd learned that doubling the amount of time they spend with each patient on physical therapy has a dramatic payoff.

Great building song with dramatic payoff in each chorus.