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anticlimax
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  • Meg felt that she would have liked to kiss Mrs Whatsit, too, but that after Charles Wallace, anything that she or Calvin did or said would be anticlimax.†   (source)
  • I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings.†   (source)
  • As Scrimgeour pulled out the tiny, walnut-sized golden ball, its silver wings fluttered rather feebly, and Harry could not help feeling a definite sense of anticlimax.†   (source)
  • It was anticlimactic, to say the least.†   (source)
  • God, that would be anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • If so, it struck me as absurdly anticlimactic; I didn't want it to end in small talk, but I couldn't think of anything else to say.†   (source)
  • Gyuri was keeping watch out front, on the street, in the light drizzle which had just begun to fall—"In, in," he hissed, sliding into the back seat and waving me to come in after him, just as Boris and Victor Cherry burst out of the restaurant and hopped in too and off we drove, at a sedate and anticlimactic speed.†   (source)
  • So it was nice but disappointing, anticlimactic, the way girls must feel when they give up their virginity: That was what all the fuss was about?†   (source)
  • I find that even fear fades and becomes commonplace after days of anticlimax.†   (source)
  • It's probably best, I tell Rivera, to put Nathaniel's return to the stage on hold for now When the long-dreaded announcement is finally made, it's anticlimactic but still feels like a gut shot.†   (source)
  • I smiled a little at my anticlimactic greeting.†   (source)
  • Unsatisfied, with a feeling of anticlimax in her throat and the dismal roiling of emotional upset in her belly, she went to the cellar to get her dress material.†   (source)
  • MINUTES INTO THE second half, the Phoenix forwards methodically and almost casually picked their way through the Fugees' defense and tapped the ball into the left side of the net for an almost embarrassingly anticlimactic goal.†   (source)
  • It was a little anticlimactic to be carrying around this secret of what was to come but not be able to actually drop any hints vet.†   (source)
  • Leaving was anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • Rather anticlimactically, she adds, "A disgrace to the family."†   (source)
  • This is the opposite of anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • Running away from home would be anticlimactic after Mexico, and a dull story after my month in the car lot.†   (source)
  • That's kind of anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • What she did for his sore feet, his cut face, his back, his neck, his thighs, and the palms of his hands was so delicious he couldn't imagine that the lovemaking to follow would be anything but anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.†   (source)
  • Purchasing the hundred bags of cement Mortenson estimated the school would require was anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • But that seems kind of dismal and anticlimactic (there you go, Miss Tyler, my new vocabulary word for the day—and it means something like a letdown).†   (source)
  • In light of the bold and defiant line we had taken all along, an appeal would seem anticlimactic and even disillusioning.†   (source)
  • The rest was somewhat anticlimactic for the old man, especially the absence of the press.†   (source)
  • Anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • If anything, it was kind of anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • After the fun break with the Shelby County Drunk Four, the rest of the walk to Governor Wallace's headquarters was anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • The fifth act, entirely an anticlimax, is taken up by the bloodbath Gennaro visits on the court of Squamuglia.†   (source)
  • By the time Leila persuaded him to give her a go at the controls, it was kind of anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • The prodigious subterranean castle of salt which she has visited often and which may or may not be, as the Professor claims, one of Europe's seven man-made wonders, is less an anticlimax in itself than a spectacle which simply fails to register on her awareness, so agitated has she been made by this indefinable whatever-it-is—this infatuation—which has struck her with the random heat of a lightning bolt, making her weak and a little ill.†   (source)
  • BRADY'S vanity and cussedness won't let him give up, even though he realizes this is a sputtering anticlimax.†   (source)
  • had wished to do, and to drag out a pointless life on this empty world would hive been unbearable anticlimax.†   (source)
  • To the white children the scene looked very prosaic: an anti-climax.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Prkchard could not stand an anticlimax.†   (source)
  • It was thought an anticlimax, showing lack of appreciation of the night's feelings, that Gabriella came straight back.†   (source)
  • Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things.†   (source)
  • No, now it's completely anticlimactic," he grumbled.†   (source)
  • "Well, this is anticlimactic," he said after a moment.†   (source)
  • No. I think when you imagine something often enough, the reality of it seems— Anticlimactic?†   (source)
  • An anticlimax, but things could worse.†   (source)
  • The idea of writing quietly and then sleeping with the knowledge that he was perfectly alone, that Annie was not going to burst in with some wild idea or even wilder demand, held great appeal, anticlimax or not.†   (source)
  • "Feels anticlimactic somehow," I said.†   (source)
  • The wholly anticlimactic, unsatisfying, and disagreeable news that the Rev. Lewis Merrill was my father—not to mention the death of Owen Meany—is just one example of the condition of universal disappointment.†   (source)
  • He thought briefly that such an anticlimax would be the universe's fitting verdict on his martial pretensions: the brave warrior floating off into near-planet orbit, no maneuvering systems, no propellant, no reaction mass of any sort-even the pistol was non-recoil.†   (source)
  • How anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • Because that capitol of his is so awful that to pan it would have been an anticlimax.†   (source)
  • This seemed to Mrs. Hubbard to be a dramatic climax rather than an anticlimax.†   (source)
  • It was anticlimax, the aftermath had come.†   (source)
  • They're an anticlimax to their own talent.†   (source)
  • I'm fond of walking,' I added, as a wretched anticlimax.†   (source)
  • Or rather, not all, since there is no all, no finish; it not the blow we suffer from but the tedious repercussive anti-climax of it, the rubbishy aftermath to clear away from of the very threshold of despair.†   (source)
  • Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anticlimax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman.†   (source)
  • It was a swift, unwelcome anticlimax.†   (source)
  • Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.†   (source)
  • At the end of the third week, as the waters slid back into their channels, Hugh Barton and his bride, crouched grimly in the great pit of the Buick, rode out through flooded roads, crawled desperately over ruined trestles, daring the irresistible wrath of water to achieve their wilted anti-climactic honeymoon.†   (source)
  • As upon another life he looked back upon that first hard and manlike surrender, that surrender terrific and hard, like the breaking down of a spiritual skeleton the very sound of whose snapping fibers could be heard almost by the physical ear, so that the act of capitulation was anticlimax, as when a defeated general on the day after the last battle, shaved overnight and with his boots cleaned of the mud of combat, surrenders his sword to a committee.†   (source)
  • Then, softening her tone, she continued: "By truth, we mean things like the stars always being there and the sun always rising and the true nobility of man and mother-love and love for one's country," she ended anti-climactically.†   (source)
  • Simple conjunctions and prepositions are replaced by such phrases as WITH RESPECT TO, HAVING REGARD TO, THE FACT THAT, BY DINT OF, IN VIEW OF, IN THE INTERESTS OF, ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT; and the ends of sentences are saved from anti-climax by such resounding commonplaces as GREATLY TO BE DESIRED, CANNOT BE LEFT OUT OF ACCOUNT, A DEVELOPMENT TO BE EXPECTED IN THE NEAR FUTURE, DESERVING OF SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, BROUGHT TO A SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION, and so on and so forth.†   (source)
  • Yes, Henry would know now, or believe that he knew now; anymore he would probably consider anti-climax though it would not be, it would be anything but that, the final blow, stroke, touch, the keen surgeonlike compounding which the now shocked nerves of the patient would not even feel, not know that the first hard shocks were the random and crude.†   (source)
  • The host, on this Sunday afternoon, wore a dark gray suit, correct as a uniform, and bedroom slippers of black patent leather trimmed with red; the slippers mocked the severe elegance of the suit, yet completed the elegance as an audacious anticlimax.†   (source)
  • What had seemed a melancholy happening, now seemed a tiresome anticlimax.†   (source)
  • One really plays around so much before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax.†   (source)
  • Isabel stared back at her; the announcement was an anticlimax.†   (source)
  • He turned to Sally, and to comfort her for the anti-climax of the contrast added grandiloquently: "They also serve who only stand and wait.'†   (source)
  • The anti-climax would be too intolerable; and her return might bring reproach upon her idolized husband.†   (source)
  • In the waiters' injured reaction to this anti-climax they found themselves neglected, so they built a waiter trap—a huge and fantastic device constructed of all the furniture in the lobby and functioning like one of the bizarre machines of a Goldberg cartoon.†   (source)
  • The delicious scent of rose-leaves that issued from the wardrobe made the process of taking out sheet after sheet of silver paper quite pleasant to assist at, though the sight of the bonnet at last was an anticlimax to Maggie, who would have preferred something more strikingly preternatural.†   (source)
  • What was said in this disappointing anti-climax, by the disciples of the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, except that it was something very voluble and loud, would have been as so much Hebrew or Chaldean to Miss Pross and her protector, though they had been all ears.†   (source)
  • Boldwood's deep attachment was a matter of great interest among all around him; but, after having been pointed out for so many years as the perfect exemplar of thriving bachelorship, his lapse was an anticlimax somewhat resembling that of St. John Long's death by consumption in the midst of his proofs that it was not a fatal disease.†   (source)
  • But Lily knew nothing of these discriminations, and could only pronounce her sister's career a strange anti-climax—an impression confirmed by the fact that Isabel's silence about Mr. Osmond, for instance, was in direct proportion to the frequency with which he occupied her thoughts.†   (source)
  • Paralyzing in its brutal suddenness, it was the ultimate anticlimax for the white race.†   (source)
  • Anticlimax waited to mock me at the end of every encounter.†   (source)
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