Word: anticlimaxed
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...height for each aviator above which it is not safe for him to go, as he may develop mental confusion, leading to errors of performance, sometimes hallucinations of sight and hearing and in some cases an uncontrollable desire to sing and whistle. This last is rather an anticlimax...
...subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered in a long and dull exposition by officer Cuff and the final acceptance of the verdict whatever it might be is an anticlimax and a considerable let down from the highly dramatic moment just preceding. The charm of Michael and Mary remains but the play of their life just dwindles away into hopes for an uncertain future...
...that we have done away with the story, there is but one major fault remaining, namely that the second half of the film is a sharp anticlimax to the zeppelin scenes portrayed in the first half. It is too bad, because after you have had your breath taken away by shots of a zeppelin drifting through clouds, and an almost melodramatic series of events leading up to its destruction, then you have to sit through some air pictures which, in different order would be much more effective than they...
...Senate committee, which included Senator Henry Drury Hatfield of West Virginia, a doctor of medicine, is to make its report this autumn. After this A. M. A. article, the Senate report will be an anticlimax...
...finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison's book is written like a detective story, suspense false clues and all. But the answer, held back till the last chapter, will come to many readers like an anticlimax after a breathless prelude. Author Morison's answer is: Jesus Himself...