1.   After weeks of waiting for the hostages, the handover should have been a crowning moment.

2.   But it was something of a crowning moment.

3.   But the fits and starts and the hiccups only intensified the suspense, added to the anticipation and made the crowning moment that much sweeter.

4.   Credit Harrington, who started the season with a gigantic billboard in Manhattan and saved his crowning moment for the biggest game of his career.

5.   Essentially, Dolan was emotionless throughout the crowning moment of his young life.

6.   For the Giants, a victory Saturday would be the crowning moment in a season of splendid surprise.

7.   His next at-bat would be his crowning moment in the playoffs.

8.   In a story that also laments the ecological rape of the island, the crowning moment is the sight of Noro hugging a tree.

9.   It was a crowning moment for the group, for women and for mountaineering.

10.   It was a crowning moment for a religious group that for years has struggled to find its place in the modern world, here and in Greece.