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Meanings of anticlimax in English
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Examples for "bathos"
Examples for "bathos"
1
There are moments of great beauty but also moments of great bathos.
2
The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry.
3
His leaving was regrettably messy, prolonged and inevitable and coated in bathos.
4
Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful.
5
The bathos of this visit roused an acid fury in Hilary.
Usage of anticlimax in English
1
A numbing sense of anticlimax had inevitably pursued them north from Moscow.
2
Presently the others made their entrance upon the scene, a singular anticlimax.
3
I suppose seeing the real me was a bit of an anticlimax.
4
Anything, the management had decided, would be an anticlimax after Rita Rolls.
5
But in the end it turned out to be a total anticlimax.
6
For the English team, however, there was a sense of anticlimax.
7
A pity, perhaps, but well suited to an age of anticlimax... View Article
8
I find that even fear fades and becomes commonplace after days of anticlimax.
9
After waiting so long it seems a bit of an anticlimax.
10
Their visit to the dome, they felt, had been something of an anticlimax.
11
The spectre of anticlimax is undoubtedly catching up with our troops.
12
One and all were conscious of a certain feeling of anticlimax.
13
It would be a sickening anticlimax to find they were liquor-smugglers.
14
Crossing through the breach was sort of an anticlimax for Richardson.
15
After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
16
Yes, as you say, a Mamie is an anticlimax to one's best endeavours.
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