(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.
Narrative
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
(a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
(n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
(5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
(7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
(8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
(9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
(10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
(13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
(17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
(18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
(19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
(20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.