Word: anti-climaxed
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According to these plans Class Day is to be on Monday, and the baseball game and the Senior Spread on the following day. This arrangement is in its nature an anti-climax. The interest in the ball game and the Senior Spread will certainly be lessened by having them follow the greater event, and no enthusiasm will be added to Class Day itself...
...common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey '01 contributes a story of the expanded daily theme type. "A Serious Question" is a choice bit of realistic description, greatly marred by an anti-climax...
...novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...Crothers preached at vespers in Appleton Chapel yesterday from the text, "The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." He said, human life often seems to a man to be an anti-climax. A young man starts out in the world with high ideals, striving to be perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying...
...Eddy, should have such a weak and careless ending. The expedient of putting the outcome of the plot into words adapted to a child's understanding was a happy and effective one, but to end the whole thing in such words was to carry the story to an anti-climax...