How To Use Anticlimax In A Sentence
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The band's seventh album is by no means an anticlimax.
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Taking her tea seems a kind of anticlimax to last night," said Julius thoughtfully.
Secret Adversary
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When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
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It's all been a bit of an anticlimax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, like most sporting dreams it ends in anticlimax and failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even when you win a match there's often a sense of anticlimax - you always feel you could have played better.
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Of course, he was eventually to read the novel in its original Spanish, but as he was to describe it, the experience was a disappointing anticlimax.
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I mean, a prom has to be an anticlimax after this.
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This film feels like nothing more than a series of anticlimaxes wrapped within one large anticlimax.
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It was a relief and rather an anticlimax when the yawning official stamped my passport without a single glance at my stuff.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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Closing with the early 20th-century Ashcan School makes sense chronologically, but since this isn't an area of collection strength, it's something of an anticlimax.
Opening the Book of American Art
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When the news came, it actually felt like a bit of an anticlimax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten years down the road he decides to try his luck in the music business, which is an early anticlimax compared to the possibility of him producing big studio pictures, but I digress.
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We had good directional control, and the brakes seemed fine, but I was a little disappointed at the anticlimax of our adventure.
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And I am glad to say that it was not an anticlimax, but more like being a child let loose in a sweet shop… the main problem being one of limited capacity and too much choice.
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Before the listener knows where he is, the mounting tension is lifted in a pianissimo anticlimax.
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His retirement announcement has added an extra ingredient to what might otherwise have been a slight anticlimax after the return of the Ashes last Monday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meeting him was a bit of an anticlimax.
The Sun
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The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
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The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
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Mazower dutifully ends his narrative with brief summations of its recent progress, but they can only come as anticlimax to the terrific events of its past.
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I think this is what you might call an anticlimax.
The Book of Chameleons
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Reaching the peak of Badaling, after such a struggle, was quite an achievement for a man of 90 kilograms with wobbly legs, but such a feat quickly turns into an anticlimax.
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It has been estimated that for one in ten new spouses, the anticlimax of married life is so severe it develops into what is known as postnuptial depression.
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But for just about everyone who took part, it was a prolonged anticlimax - boring, uncomfortable and isolated.
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After working with Stanley Kubrick for a couple of years, anything else would be an anticlimax.
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After this, the sailors reacted to the anticlimax by disappearing.
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Sadly, the long-awaited replacement of the floodlight bulb - absent since September - proved an anticlimax, lasting only one week before it once more expired.
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Thanks internet hoaxers for the four day long buildup to the biggest software-based anticlimax ever.
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I would not understand until later that Marshall was letting me in on a little secret about how history is made: through a series of anticlimaxes.
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Not everything he does works, but Antopolski deliberately uses anticlimax and bathos in his material.
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Their treatment by the prison officials was not ordinarily severe; even a warden or a guard could feel that clubbing and dark-celling would be a kind of anticlimax for a man sentenced for life.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
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The quest ends in an anticlimax, but the film's target viewers will probably be glad to have come along for the mildly whimsical ride.
Times, Sunday Times
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These kinds of glorious anticlimaxes that some fans take such issue with are part of what makes the show great.
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The same but younger is rarely a good look, and there is an inevitable anticlimax in knowing where all this is going to end up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax.
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It was a relief and rather an anticlimax when the yawning official stamped my passport without a single glance at my stuff.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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They could stop playing baseball after the game because, seriously, what would be the point of staging thousands of pathetic anticlimaxes annually?
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Sometimes I think it's made me seem an anticlimax to him since - I never have lived up to any of the dreams I gave him - he settled for second best by coming back to life.
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I can't agree at all that the finale was any kind of anticlimax though!
Looking Back on Season Two of SUPERNATURAL | the TV addict
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The main disappointment is the ending which is an anticlimax after the dangerous excesses of the rescue mission.
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The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
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Coming home after a trip somewhere is always a bit of an anticlimax.
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It was a sad anticlimax.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
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the anticlimax of a brilliant career
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Nobody will feel this sense of slight anticlimax more keenly than the Prime Minister.
Times, Sunday Times
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It hardly mattered that the couple of tunes that followed were bound to seem a slight anticlimax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any event stages or sponsored by them is gonna be an exercise in anticlimax, no matter what.
Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending.
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When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
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She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing.
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When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
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It was a disappointment to most of us, I think — a kind of anticlimax before we'd really gotten started.
The Hotel New Hampshire
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She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing.
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I know what you're thinking - wow, that must have been incredible, you must have felt like a piece of you was made whole again - but to be honest it was an anticlimax.
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Andante maestoso was not an overblown anticlimax but the real apotheosis of Tchaikovsky's musical argument.
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Like a funeral, an epilogue mitigates an annihilating ending with deliquescent anticlimax.
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It was a relief and rather an anticlimax when the yawning official stamped my passport without a single glance at my stuff.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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Given the Greek parliament last week passed a vote of confidence, Mizuho credit analyst Anke Richter noted this week's test is likely to end positively as well, with the heated anticipation resulting in an anticlimax.
European Debt-Insurance Costs Ease
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The actual death of Bill was a bit of an anticlimax, but I still liked it, and the actual ending of the movie was pretty strong, particularly the speech about always being a killer, which casts a shadow over the happy ending.
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Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax.
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Mountstewart Jones," or "Fitzhardinge Jones," (I knew such instances of cognominal anticlimax,) then it was all very well -- no mistake about the individuality of such fortunate people.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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But it proved to be a damp squib and an anticlimax if ever there was one.
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All filming inevitably ends in brutal anticlimax.
Times, Sunday Times
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And before this anticlimax can become a moment of appealing self-deprecation, Mr. Jennings notes that he outperformed all other first-time contestants.
Lost in a Good Atlas
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But it's a bit of an anticlimax to be honest as people are treading very carefully.
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