A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.
Stylistic device; subversion of climax.
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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