Word: anticlimax
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...appeals through its intricate pattern and decoration, inducing a mood and sense of beauty, but lacking the truth to emotional experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their way" and "dalliance" mars...
...Ballade rose to a very high pitch of excellence, although one might have wished occasionally for more of the virtuoso dash. Yet the clearness of his phrasing, and his appreciation of the poetic contents was undeniable. The Beethoven Sonata at the end came somewhat in the nature of an anticlimax, although it would perhaps have been difficult to place it elsewhere. All in all an exceedingly interesting concert and one which thoroughly maintained the standards of the club...
...rowing. If the present interest shown in the sport can be taken to mean anything, we believe that a second class race or a regatta between scrub crews, held toward the end of May, would be highly successful. The objection that such an event would be an anticlimax to the regular class race and would therefore fall flat has but little weight. There are plenty of men who enjoy rowing enough for its own sake to make a well contested regatta later in the spring...
...this reason. If we take for granted that each college wins on its home grounds, then the neutral game is the deciding one; and if this is played at first and finished, what interest is left for the succeeding games of the series? It is decidedly an anticlimax. But if on the other hand nothing is assumed as to the outcome of the games played on home grounds, then it is manifestly unfair that the last game should be played on the grounds of one of the contesting teams...
...gown at graduation. May I suggest another point in regard to Class Day? It apparently must be brought up now, before the senior elections, or not at all. For four successive years, to speak within my personal experience, the exercises around the tree have ended in a pitiable anticlimax, - not to call it a farce. I refer, of course, to the class song...