anticlimax

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Pulp guitarist Mark Webber told 6 Music's Lauren Laverne the show had been "a slight anticlimax, to be honest".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

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

But as quickly as the crisis began, it ended abruptly in a type of anticlimax one day later as Prigozhin's forces stopped their march on Moscow, stood down, and agreed to return to their barracks.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

Yet now that the command was his, the fulfillment of an old and troubled dream, he suffered a hollowness of spirit that had the unmistakable dimension of anticlimax.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy