Word: anticlimax
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...says. "It means keeping the action alive. But that can be done with pauses as well as with picking up cues. It means not having any deadwood." Using that criterion, he discarded what even he thought was a good number from Call Me Madam: "Everything else will be an anticlimax." And out it went, over the protests of Composer Irving Berlin and Choreographer Jerome Robbins...
Close Quarters thus begins in anticlimax. The unnamed old warship is wallowing through the torrid zone west of Africa. Talbot buys another book of blank paper from the ship's purser and resolves to continue writing without quite knowing why: "There is an inevitable difference between this journal, meant for, for, I do not know for whom, and the first one meant for the eyes of a godfather who is less indulgent than I pretended. In that volume I had all my work done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines...
...bring [White Shroud] to a triumphant, or untriumphant, ending. It's kind of an anticlimax. But I don't mind. Somebody's got to take on the anticlimax, or else everybody will be doomed to be afraid of the anticlimax....Sometimes I can't come. That's pretty anticlimactic...
Against South African Christo Steyn in the anticlimax of Lloyd's 14 Wimbledons, he could summon no joy even while taking the first two sets. "Christo was awful the first two. The final three, I was horrendous. He didn't have that much to beat, really. If I'd actually wanted it and enjoyed it--if it came from within--I would have won. But there was no charge in me. I've been doing this since I was eight, thinking of the next tennis match." One of the gentler fish wrappers inquired about his overpowering emotion. Lloyd said...
...fittingly silly anticlimax to one of the sorriest foreign policy messes on record. No matter how the vote next week turns out, no one will emerge happy...