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Examples of anticlimax
anticlimax
Though this makes sense, it leaves the die-hard fan with a sense of anticlimax.
From the usatoday.com
Many athletes say that, after winning an Olympic medal, there is an anticlimax.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel Time comes, it is a laconic anticlimax.
From the time.com
The whole thing has a feeling of sadness, of life as anticipation and anticlimax.
From the guardian.co.uk
As the sunlight slid into the widening gap it seemed at first to be an anticlimax.
From the guardian.co.uk
The final came as something of an anticlimax following the morning semifinals.
From the signonsandiego.com
Rookie defenseman Chris Butler's first NHL goal was the height of anticlimax.
From the buffalonews.com
It was not the fault of Messiter, nor of the conductor, that this was an anticlimax.
From the harrowtimes.co.uk
The third part might strike many readers as an afterthought or anticlimax.
From the independent.co.uk
- A disappointing decline after a previous rise; "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
- A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
- In rhetoric, a climax (Greek: u03BAu03BBu1FD6u03BCu03B1u03BE, klu00EEmax, lit.u00A0"staircase" or "ladder") is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (lit.u00A0"growth").
- The climax (from the Greek word u03BAu03BBu1FD6u03BCu03B1u03BE, meaning "staircase" and "ladder") or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element.
- A break in the final crescendo or climax of a narrative, producing a disappointing end
- Any incident of let-down when an anticipated climax is not realized.
- According to Dr. Johnson's definition (and he appears to have been the first to record the word) it is 'a sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first'. In fact, a bathetic declension from a noble tone to one less exalted. ...
- A sudden relaxation of tension arising out of the avoidance of some anticipated crisis. Occasionally used to relieve the monotony of a particular tension and disguise preparation for the next.
- Anything that happens in the final few moments of a film that dulls down the story crescendo and leaves the audience feeling let down and unsatisfied.
