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a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
- Because that capitol of his is so awful that to pan it would have been an anticlimax.1.10 — Part 1 Chapter 10 (33% in)
- 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.2.4 — Part 2 Chapter 4 (26% in)
- They're an anticlimax to their own talent.4.2 — Part 4 Chapter 2 (30% in)
There are no more uses of "anticlimax" in The Fountainhead.
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