Word: anticlimax
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...political currents alternated between passion and anticlimax. After President Nixon sent American troops into Cambodia at the end of April, a spasm of outrage seized the nation's college campuses, and emotion redoubled when the Ohio National Guard killed four Kent State University students. Yet a great many of the U.S. students who so passionately vowed to change the system from within by working in political campaigns never appeared in the fall...
There is a sense of anticlimax after the disturbing events of spring. The Nixon Administration has matched the national mood: the President and his people are trying to conciliate American differences and lower the rhetorical temperature of the Administration...
Poor Alec ruefully realizes that he makes better love in print than in person. The moment of climax is a moment of crushing, middle-aged anticlimax: "I can't make love in the past tense, and love seems to be all in the past tense for me nowadays." British Playwright Stanley Eveling then upends his hourglass plot with ironic precision to turn Janet into a successful young writer...
...film first spoofs Fairbanks-Flynn epics. Then it attempts to satirize Byzantine court intrigue and ends in boudoir farce. In his overzealous attempt to create rococo madness, Producer-Director Bud Yorkin ignores comic economy. Orson Welles' opening narration is gratuitous, and his appearance at the end creates an anticlimax that almost guillotines the movie...
...Doubell professes to care little for glory or gold medals-or even that his Olympic time of 1 min. 44.3 sec. equaled the world record of New Zealand's Peter Snell. "From the moment I touched the tape," he says, "it was all downhill, anticlimax, God Save the Queen and all that. Who needs national anthems...