All 3 Uses of
anticlimax
in
The Fountainhead
- Because that capitol of his is so awful that to pan it would have been an anticlimax.†
Chpt 1.10 *anticlimax = a disappointing decline in excitement or interest relative to a previous rise or expectations
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- They're an anticlimax to their own talent.†
Chpt 4.2