anticlimax

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

At last to the closing ceremony: It was almost by definition an anticlimax, given that the games were over — if not yet “officially” over — and every race had been run, if only just barely.

Until Friday, at least, the cable news coverage of the first criminal trial of a former president carried a hint of anticlimax.

But in many ways, Trump’s criminal trials are a type of anticlimax.

Eilish and her brother worked “What Was I Made For?” so hard over this awards cycle that the song’s tolling chords almost felt like an anticlimax as O’Connell started into them once again Sunday.