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Meanings of anti-climax in English

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anticlímax

Stylistic device; subversion of climax.

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        Usage of anti-climax in English
        1
        Habit has dulled our perception of the absurd anti-climax involved in it.
        By the Christmas Fire
        2
        It's often an embarrassing, fumbling-in-the-dark experience or a bit of an anti-climax.
        News.com.au
        3
        There was a moment of anti-climax when the Opel refused to start.
        Fatherland
        4
        The East-West matches in Chicago proved more or less of an anti-climax.
        The Art of Lawn Tennis
        5
        Some people even claim to have found it all rather an anti-climax.
        The Irish Times
        6
        But a hidebound and peripheral court was an anti-climax after cosmopolitan Rome.
        The Guardian
        7
        But, as an anti-climax, he always showed up alive in vacation time.
        Sacrifice
        8
        It was an anti-climax such as only an Irishman could have achieved.
        The World Peril of 1910
        9
        A dream is realized in February, but March might be an anti-climax.
        The South African
        10
        The audacious words being spoken, his courage oozed away and anti-climax, followed.
        The Trampling of the Lilies
        11
        Cally, after the first shrinking, was possessed by a sense of anti-climax.
        V. V.'s Eyes
        12
        To John Aldous Joanne's appearance at this moment was like an anti-climax.
        The Hunted Woman
        13
        Conclusion It is tempting to think of the Attlee years as an anti-climax.
        The Guardian
        14
        It can't be an anti-climax if nobody expected matters to reach a conclusion.
        The Irish Times
        15
        At the very last I thought I saw signs of an artistic anti-climax.
        The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
        16
        Is there a word for an anti-climax that happens before the actual event?
        The Irish Times
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