anticlimax

Example Sentences

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There have been mixed reviews of the concert with Pulp guitarist Mark Webber telling BBC 6 Music describing the show as "a slight anticlimax".

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

It’s the kind of near-miss that could feel, in unsurer hands, like an anticlimax.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The world-ending conflagration Wagner intended for the ending was a fire-free anticlimax at the bottom of an empty pool.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Although it was only the sixth round out of twenty-two, for Bobby everything that followed from Bronstein was an emotional anticlimax.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady