Word: anti-climaxed
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...capture an important nugget of truth overlooked by a more sympathetic European press. The Times led with discussion of pre-emptive border controls and precautionary measures to defend Michelangelo’s David but faltered over the anti-climactic facts of the day. There were no arrests; there was no “serious violence.” Pairing anti-climax with sarcasm, the Times reports: “[a female protestor] used eyeliner to paint Y-like shapes on the brows of friends. They worried aloud that the result looked more like Mercedes symbols than peace signs...
...aren't particularly involved in the electoral process anyway. Unless you're a constitutional lawyer and a superb statistician, when the Sunshine State finally does figure out who the next President will be, you won't be able to understand how he was chosen. Sheesh. It is a nationwide anti-climax and frankly, after a week of "too-close-to-calls," we're getting a little frustrated...
...find it, finally, one day in Final Vinyl, an LP treasure house in the East Village. It cost me $50, the most I'd ever paid for a record up to that time (I've paid more since). It was an anti-climax, of course - all the really great tunes were on the first one. Maybe I'd changed in the meantime, and was no longer open to the intensity I'd experienced with the original. Somehow Phil Spector had lost the ability to get me there, to put me in the flow, to peak me out. Who knows...
...today is not such an exciting day for me. I will not be heading off to the polls at all. In fact, I voted over a month ago. In the comfort of my dorm room, I filled out my absentee ballot with a number two pencil, overwhelmed by the anti-climax of my first presidential vote. The local Baltimore races were equally uninspiring, since I am not quite close enough to home follow the issues well, so I made some uninformed guesses. (Then again, Cambridge is not enough of a home to me that I would feel comfortable voting here...
...This game was a bit of an anti-climax and the Crimson treated it as such. Harvard travelled up to Vermont for its final regular-season game and just barely squeaked...