Crowning and Upper

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Crowning adjective - Forming or providing a crown or summit.

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Upper and crowning are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Upper" instead an adjective "Crowning".

Nearby Words: crown, crowned

Upper adjective - Higher in place or position.

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Crowning and upper are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crowning" instead an adjective "Upper".

Because he's such an emotionally repressed, stuffed shirt normally this becomes both a crowning moment of awesome and a crowning moment of funny as he struggles to put aside his Stiff Upper Lip tendencies and speak from his heart.

Source: Series / Doc Martin
Subverted by the episode "Masterpiece", where it's after Rossi's Crowning Moment of Awesome that Jason Alexander's UnSub lunges across the table at Rossi - who promptly gains the upper hand, slams his head against a plate-glass window a couple times, and then calmly lets him go.

Source: Let Me at Him!
Then in the Arrancar invasion arc, he finally did a Crowning Moment of Awesome... only to negate it by reverting into his Upper-Class Twit self and the Fraccion he just beat comes back ready to kick his ass and ends up dead by a thrown rock, not by his power.

Source: Butt Monkey / Anime and Manga

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