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Meanings of anticlimax in inglés

portugués
anticlímax

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.

        anticlímax
        catalán
        anticlímax

        Stylistic device; subversion of climax.

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              Sinónimos
              Examples for "bathos"
              Examples for "bathos"
              1
              There are moments of great beauty but also moments of great bathos.
              The Guardian
              2
              The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry.
              Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 / Germany, Austria-H...
              3
              His leaving was regrettably messy, prolonged and inevitable and coated in bathos.
              The Irish Times
              4
              Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful.
              The Charm of Oxford
              5
              The bathos of this visit roused an acid fury in Hilary.
              Fraternity
              Usage of anticlimax in inglés
              1
              A numbing sense of anticlimax had inevitably pursued them north from Moscow.
              The Guardian
              2
              Presently the others made their entrance upon the scene, a singular anticlimax.
              A Splendid Hazard
              3
              I suppose seeing the real me was a bit of an anticlimax.
              Winter door
              4
              Anything, the management had decided, would be an anticlimax after Rita Rolls.
              The Human Factor
              5
              But in the end it turned out to be a total anticlimax.
              News.com.au
              6
              For the English team, however, there was a sense of anticlimax.
              The Guardian
              7
              A pity, perhaps, but well suited to an age of anticlimax... View Article
              The new yorker
              8
              I find that even fear fades and becomes commonplace after days of anticlimax.
              The Hyperion Cantos
              9
              After waiting so long it seems a bit of an anticlimax.
              Radio NZ
              10
              Their visit to the dome, they felt, had been something of an anticlimax.
              The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
              11
              The spectre of anticlimax is undoubtedly catching up with our troops.
              The new yorker
              12
              One and all were conscious of a certain feeling of anticlimax.
              The Secret Adversary
              13
              It would be a sickening anticlimax to find they were liquor-smugglers.
              Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
              14
              Crossing through the breach was sort of an anticlimax for Richardson.
              Apocalypse of the Dead
              15
              After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
              The Status Civilization
              16
              Yes, as you say, a Mamie is an anticlimax to one's best endeavours.
              The Brentons
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              anticlímax
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              anticlímax
              Anticlimax through the time
              Anticlimax across language varieties
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