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the anticlimax of a brilliant career
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It was considered very anti-climactic in the Capitol, all those quiet, bloodless deaths. (source)anti-climactic = of a disappointing decline in excitement relative to a previous rise
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When Eliza, Lindsay, and I all finally stood up to walk to the ambulance to get bandaged up, the crowd stood and gave us a standing O. We went on to win the game big, but my topple made everything else anticlimactic. (source)anticlimactic = a decline in excitement or interest relative to a what was previous
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Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. (source)anti-climax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to the past
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I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.† (source)anticlimax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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After all the buildup, it was a bit of an anticlimax, conceded the Count.† (source)
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I enjoy the expectation with which the top is wrenched off the can of worms as if from some amazing birthday present, and then the sense of anticlimax in the watching faces: the forced tears and skimpy, gloating pity, the cued and dutiful applause.† (source)anticlimax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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And then people's moms and dads were picking them up, and it was so anticlimactic after all that planning and anticipation.† (source)anticlimactic = of a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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To the white children the scene looked very prosaic: an anti-climax.† (source)anti-climax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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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)anti-climactic = of a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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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)
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Rather anticlimactically, she adds, "A disgrace to the family."† (source)anticlimactically = in a manner that disappoints relative to a previous trend or expectations
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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)
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He might regard my trial as an anticlimax.† (source)anticlimax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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Crossing the military barricade on the George Washington Bridge had been tense, but in the end, almost anticlimactic.† (source)anticlimactic = of a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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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)anti-climax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
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