(n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Monaco Grand Prix, the most exuberant party in Formula One, has a habit of delivering anticlimax.
(2) It was a response worthy of Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, who had been left with the unenviable task of following Benn with his own 15 minutes of total anticlimax.
(3) He should have used normal tyres and put it away.” The club’s principal shirt sponsors might have something to say on that front but the miss checked the optimism, the sense of anticlimax exacerbated by Costa’s lunge at Craig Cathcart which earned him a fifth yellow card of the season.
(4) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
(5) This anticlimax has become the elevator’s origin myth.
(6) A thumping home win here never seemed likely but this was no anticlimax and the players' post-match lap of honour felt like a love-in.
(7) Most strikes end badly and sadly, in my experience, with a compromise and a bit of a climb down on both sides, a deflating anticlimax for staff who have stirred up great collective endeavour.
(8) So joyous and immense were the hopes that once rested on the actor, raconteur and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov, who has died in Switzerland aged 82, that the final balance-sheet of his life was bound to seem an anticlimax, both to himself and to those who saw the skyrocket of his early talent.
(9) If they're honest with themselves, says Baez, veterans of the peace movement, of the war itself or of any great struggle for social change must admit that for all the woes they suffered, there is a terrible anticlimax when it ends.
(10) This is the holy grail for most tourists in Rio, but we had enjoyed such an epic ride that it almost felt like an anticlimax.
(11) Alas, the answer is rather an anticlimax – it’s unlikely things would be much different.
(12) Ever since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition was formed in May, the softening-up for George Osborne's spending review has been so relentless and so professional that today's announcement may have seemed almost irresistible, and even in some respects – cuts of 19% rather than the originally mooted 25% or even 40% – something of a carefully choreographed anticlimax.
(13) We could have gone top of the league with a win, but 10 points from five games is still a good return.” Almost inevitably the rest of the afternoon was an anticlimax after such a flurry of excitement, settling back into the evenly contested ordinariness it had exhibited before Arsenal showed their ruthless streak.
(14) The delay in implementation has also been accompanied by a sense of anticlimax and missed opportunities for both childcare and eldercare, with some fundamental issues remaining.
(15) It was an anticlimax, in the sense that everything ran smoothly, there were no dramas and, importantly, no nerves or additional anxiety.
(16) Manchester City failed to avoid anticlimax after the thrill of beating Barcelona when they conceded a late Marten de Roon equaliser that left Pep Guardiola disgusted in the technical area.
(17) These qualities have served to head off a syndrome long recognised by Nasa as problematic for returning astronauts: the crashing anticlimax and existential difficulties of life after space travel.
(18) It was almost an anticlimax that the Sox went on to beat the St Louis Cardinals in a four-game sweep, to win a first World Series in 86 years.
(19) There were glimpses of the magic that the game's followers have become accustomed to in his approaches to the greens but more often than not there was a sense of anticlimax whenever Woods picked his putter out of the bag.
(20) Even hearing his album had gone in the charts at No 1 turned out to be an anticlimax, because the 1975's label had been briefing them all week on its progress.
(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
(2) Albuquerque is awash with speculation over how the show will climax today.
(3) B is the predominant glucocorticoid in tadpole plasma before climax.
(4) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(5) After allogeneic grafting (CAP leads to LEW; RtH-1-incompatible) the non-specific-healing reaction progressed into a second phase, namely the specific reaction: increasing infiltration of the host cornea and the graft with small lymphocytes, blast cells and macrophages, directly followed by severe vascularization, reaching its climax about the 14th day.
(6) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(7) The vote provided the climax to a year of debate in which the bill at times seemed on the verge of passage and at others about to be scrapped.
(8) Deliberately structured like a western, American Sniper’s climax pits Kyle against Mustafa, an Iraqi sniper who does not utter a single word throughout the entire film.
(9) The general nerve terminal morphology and pattern of accumulation of acetylcholine receptors at cutaneous pectoris neuromuscular junctions were similar to those of the adult throughout metamorphic climax except that they still contained more than one motor axon.
(10) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
(11) In contrast, tadpoles allowed to survive up to 6 months showed no loss of motoneurons if they did not enter metamorphic climax.
(12) A renal action of prolactin during climax may facilitate metamorphosis.
(13) The characteristics of the nuclear T3 receptors present in red blood cells (RBCs) of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles undergoing metamorphic climax have been investigated with a T3 saturation technique.
(14) In the sort of flourish that was Gordon Brown's trademark at the end of his budgets, Osborne announced the fuel duty cut at the climax of a 56-minute speech built around the theme of boosting growth and rebalancing the economy.
(15) The summit will conduct a post-mortem on the Greek debacle, which climaxed at the weekend with agreement on the first ever bailout of a euro country, costing €110bn over three years for the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
(16) Ted Cruz reaches the dramatic climax of his pitch to voters with a flourish that is as subtle as it is selfless.
(17) Thus, a transitory increase in plasma tetranectin was observed in early puberty, reaching its climax about the age of 11 to 12 in girls and 14 to 15 in boys.
(18) Using selected cDNAs, RNA dot blot analysis of liver mRNA from tadpoles at different stages of metamorphosis showed that the level of one thyroid hormone-enhanced mRNA increased during late prometamorphosis and metamorphic climax.
(19) However, uptake exhibited a rapid peak during early climax (stage II), before maximum concentrations of thyroid hormones were observed.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.