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