Word: anticlimax
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Another volume is promised, but Bevan in office is an anticlimax. He was the greatest of His Majesty's Opposition...
...Westmore. After the killer has been hooked and The End comes on the screen, a voice shouts: "Hold it! Stop! That's the end of the picture-but it's not the end of the mystery." And for what seems like ten minutes of the most crashing anticlimax to ever climax an anticlimax, the incognito cameo players peel off their makeup. Shucks, with those ears for clues, anybody could have guessed which one was Sinatra all the time...
...shot that is accurate from anywhere within 25 ft. of the rim. Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that the actual act of shooting is an anticlimax. "It's like a knuckle ball," says Laker General Manager Lou Mohs. "Sometimes it looks as though it's off to one side-but then it starts searching for the net. Style? Barnett doesn't have any. But who's going to mess with that shot...
Sinclair's public career .was something of an anticlimax. The titles of two Sinclair books tell the sad story: I, Governor of California-and How I Ended Poverty (1933) and I, Candidate for Governor-and How I Got Licked...
...Anticlimax. The Dutch rulers of Western New Guinea have discouraged headhunting, so the elaborate buildup generally ends at this point. The ancestor poles are taken out into the sago forest and left to rot. Perhaps the souls of dead ancestors go away with them and cease to annoy the living; perhaps their decay helps the procreation of the sago trees. The Asmat are well aware that all this is an anticlimax, but when the Dutch leave New Guinea, as they soon must, the ceremonial may culminate as of old in a real head-hunting raid on a neighboring tribe...