Meaning of anti-climax | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of anticlimax.

alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Examples

“These tautologies and anti-climaces were too much for the colonel, and we are ashamed to say⟳ that he committed himself by publishing in the Commercial an indignant denial of ever having indited such an epistle.”

“Allowing for the confusion of a first night, the dialogue is eminently weak and slipshod; anti-climaces abound, and the ridiculous and the sentimental are too often blended together unintentionally.”

“We never had the pleasure of hearing the noble Lord; but we have⟳ no difficulty in recognising in the pages, now before us, the eloquent platitudes and brilliant anti-climaces with which the learned editor has so often favoured peccant audiences.”

“Such messages or symbolic significances as Cawein’s poems contain⟳ usually are slight things, added, it often seems as afterthoughts, sometimes they mar the poems with anti-climaces.”

“Anti-climax, though a defect, is to be preferred to an end⟳ that is distorted in order⟳ to achieve⟳ emphasis. In an older day there was such a dread of anti-climax and such a passion for “a curtain” that, whether probable or not, their comedies ended with marriages all around and their tragedies with as much death as possible.”

“Tomorrow I go into St Mary’s Paddington for an operation. I am frightened. No, I am not frightened. Yes, I am. Anti-climax of anti-climaxes. Or should it be anti-climaces?”

“As Liverpool's players slumped to the turf, with Trent Alexander-Arnold standing motionless for several minutes, manager Jurgen Klopp and his players will reflect⟳ on an outstanding campaign that brought two trophies but also ended in undoubted anti-climax.”

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