anticlimax
Example Sentences
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So yes, if the title of “King of Westeros” is the important thing to you, this Game of Thrones finale was a letdown that can be measured on the Lost scale of anticlimaxes.
From The Verge • May 21, 2019
Baseball is a peculiar sport, filled with dozens of climactic anticlimaxes, and wide pockets of time for digressions into movies or politics or, in Keith’s case, deeply felt opinions about uniform design.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2018
Finally, there’s the question of why the court would schedule six hours of oral argument only to dismiss the case in the mother of all anticlimaxes.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2012
Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it’s that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011
In that vault are stored the anticlimaxes that should have been tagged to all the stories that have been told in the world.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
Vocabulary lists containing anticlimax
Power Prefix: Anti
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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