anticlimax

Example Sentences

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Fox News’ Peter Doocy was among the unsatisfied, and he laid into Leavitt over the anticlimax.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

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

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

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

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