Word: anti-climaxed
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Still, this is a daring show that sustains interest unflaggingly throughout its running-time of two-and-a-half hours. The greatcritic James Agate once wrote of Julius Caesar: "The play's second half is one long anti-climax. Shakespeare left his play in two halves which no company of actors, however skillful can succeed in putting together." Were he alive and here, I think Agate would change his mind...
...demonstrators outside beating drums and chanting "Free Terrance" and "We say no to police brutality and racism." The court clerk swooped down on them, chastising them like wayward children to "Keep away from those windows; the blinds are closed for a reason." The whole event reached a sort of anti-climax with the announcement of a delay in the trial because the defendant had changed his plea from self-defense in both shootings to self-defense in the first and temporary insanity in the second...
...almost an anti-climax when, at 1:29 of the third extra session, one tick of the clock before midnight, that Stemkowski (you do remember Pete Stemkowski, right?) popped a rebound by Esposito's achilles heel off assists by Ted Irvine and Tim Horton to keep the series, and season, alive. Of course, being the New York Rangers, they lost the deciding seventh contest in Chicago. But they still had the sixth to remember...
...just be the money, especially for superstars living in a world of endorsements and acting careers. It's got to be something more, so much more that we cannot empathize with a Hal Greer or a Bob Gibson hobbling and wheezing their former glories into anti-climax...
...gush ran thick and embarrassing for a man whose career has proved such an anti-climax. The searching, potentially revealing questions about Welles floated over the exchange and remained unanswered. Not because questioners failed to hint at them, but because Welles himself didn't seem to catch their drift...