Examples of anticlimax

• Chapters 9 and 10 are something of an anticlimax but do contain useful discussions of important issues of delayed recovery.

• The summary and recommendations by the editors, in comparison, are an anticlimax.

• I felt here a musical opportunity was missed, leaving the final scene musically something of an anticlimax.

• For the rest, the final chapter perpetuates this tone of anticlimax.

• The introduction is marvelous, but the conclusion is a bit of an anticlimax.

• For most, the voyage ended there but for some, the happy anticipation of arrival quickly turned to a sense of frustration and anticlimax when quarantine was declared.

• Because of this, the dramatic potential of the catharsis is diminished, and the story tapers off in a very long anticlimax of the happy-villager happy end.

• Then it seemed that the play was going to end in an anticlimax.