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Significados de anticlimax en inglés

portugués
anticlímax

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.

anticlímax
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anticlímax

Stylistic device; subversion of climax.

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Examples for "anti-climax"
Examples for "anti-climax"
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Habit has dulled our perception of the absurd anti-climax involved in it.
By the Christmas Fire
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It's often an embarrassing, fumbling-in-the-dark experience or a bit of an anti-climax.
News.com.au
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There was a moment of anti-climax when the Opel refused to start.
Fatherland
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The East-West matches in Chicago proved more or less of an anti-climax.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
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Some people even claim to have found it all rather an anti-climax.
The Irish Times
Uso de anticlimax en inglés
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A numbing sense of anticlimax had inevitably pursued them north from Moscow.
The Guardian
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Presently the others made their entrance upon the scene, a singular anticlimax.
A Splendid Hazard
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I suppose seeing the real me was a bit of an anticlimax.
Winter door
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Anything, the management had decided, would be an anticlimax after Rita Rolls.
The Human Factor
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But in the end it turned out to be a total anticlimax.
News.com.au
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For the English team, however, there was a sense of anticlimax.
The Guardian
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A pity, perhaps, but well suited to an age of anticlimax... View Article
The new yorker
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I find that even fear fades and becomes commonplace after days of anticlimax.
The Hyperion Cantos
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After waiting so long it seems a bit of an anticlimax.
Radio NZ
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Their visit to the dome, they felt, had been something of an anticlimax.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The spectre of anticlimax is undoubtedly catching up with our troops.
The new yorker
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One and all were conscious of a certain feeling of anticlimax.
The Secret Adversary
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It would be a sickening anticlimax to find they were liquor-smugglers.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
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Crossing through the breach was sort of an anticlimax for Richardson.
Apocalypse of the Dead
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After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
The Status Civilization
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Yes, as you say, a Mamie is an anticlimax to one's best endeavours.
The Brentons
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