Word: anti-climaxed
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...frantic run-up to Afghanistan's presidential election has given way to a bitter anti-climax. Even as results trickle in, they are in danger of being overwhelmed by mounting claims of fraud from the leading candidates, who appear to be increasingly unlikely to back down should the final verdict not go their...
...abrupt to members of the audience seeking a neatly wrapped resolution to the emotional chaos. Describing the particularities of the ending, Hammer said that it only involved “a small transformation of the psyche of the characters.” But rather than viewing it as an anti-climax, Hammer sees the ending as the truest destination of the film’s narrative. “That was the whole point of the story,” he said. “A slight psychological shift.” —Staff writer Bram A. Strochlic...
After over three years of laborious negotiations and much political muscle flexing at home and abroad, the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal cleared its final hurdle today, with the U.S. Senate voting to ratify it 86-13. But the approval came as a bit of an anti-climax for both administrations, with Washington and New Delhi preoccupied with other more pressing issues - Washington with the economy, New Delhi with a recent string of domestic security failures that have led to nearly a dozen terror strikes across the country in the last four weeks. When both administrations go to the electorate...
...dusty roads and a torrid climate? Why not let people hold those exotic thoughts, even if the reality is more mundane? If foreigners visit, or come to know their own Australian one day, they'll soon learn enough to think of us in the round. It may be an anti-climax, but not a bad experience...
...hoopla surrounding the Ivy showdown game, it proved to be an anti-climax, as the Crimson coasted to a share of the Ivy title by a final margin...