(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.
Crescendo
Definition:
(a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
(n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
(n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a crescendo intensity and frequency of LIMA staining in an inverse relation to the degree of cell maturation and differentiation from type I intestinal metaplasia (60 per cent) to type II (85 per cent), type III (100 per cent), and dysplasia (100 per cent).
(2) Regardless of how many pillows I piled under my knees, it bubbled up until it hit a crescendo.
(3) The past seven days have seen a rising crescendo of outrage over superinjunctions; the challenge to the courts from Twitter; the PCC rapping the Telegraph for entrapment and this morning's European court judgment over Max Mosley .
(4) By definition, patients with angina of new onset, of a crescendo pattern, and with angina at rest are included in this high-risk group.
(5) But with unrest appearing to reach a crescendo, it is unclear whether the meeting will take place.
(6) During exercise, it increased progressively (crescendo type) as the exercise was increased in normal subjects.
(7) I’m a fan of epic crescendos so I’m glad that’s how the piece ends.
(8) The patient, a 53 year old man, had a crescendo-decrescendo holosystolic murmur, a third and a fourth heart sound, that is the typical auscultatory pattern of this lesion.
(9) Thursday's battle marked a crescendo in the clashes between two Syrian regime brigades and a collection of Jihadist and rebel groups wrestling for control of the northern Golan.
(10) In a 49-year-old man with crescendo angina, elevated serum cholesterol level and an old posterior myocardial infarction, selective coronary arteriography showed multiple arteriosclerotic aneurysms of the right coronary artery associated with extensive and severe arteriosclerotic disease of the left coronary artery.
(11) There was a rapid crescendo in violence , sparked by conflict between local residents and asylum seekers, and when morning came on 18 February the centre was in ruins.
(12) A 'crescendo' pattern of pre-infarction angina was rarely observed in both groups.
(13) Mitral preclosure resulted in mid- or end-diastolic crescendo murmur accompanied by soft first heart sound.
(14) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
(15) After 12 days the pain increased, but EKG and serum enzymes remained normal ("preinfarct," crescendo, unstable, or accelerated angina).
(16) In conditions of left ventricular hemodynamic failure caused by global hypoxemia, a separate abnormal mid-to-late diastolic "crescendo" type of transmissibility was found, and is defined as "Type 2".
(17) In the latter group of patients anginal episodes were more frequently associated with S-T segment elevation than with S-T segment depression (p less than 0.001), while the opposite was found in patients with crescendo angina.
(18) Two patients had prior history of syncope; one patient, of ventricular tachycardia; three patients, of pulmonary edema; and three patients, of crescendo angina.
(19) Subjects were also instructed to produce a slow crescendo.
(20) The criticism reached a crescendo in January when the BBC's Inside Out broadcast a report claiming the wages being paid to workers at Kibale were 'abysmal' and that viewers would do better to reduce their own carbon emissions than to buy offsets.