Word: anticlimaxes
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...think it was definitely a sort of anticlimax for us--as pretty much all games are at this stage," Irvin said. "Our play didn't show it, though...
...characters drift down memory lane, the directors switch to a blue spotlight. This almost campy technique works because of its campiness: the audience laughs, but at the same time, the light focuses the audience on Steve's monologue. When he reminisces, the audience chuckles. But when he concludes, "Anticlimax--I like that word" and the light snaps off, the theme that links these characters' lives lingers...
Surprise! After the latest constitutional debacle on Oct. 26, when voters rejected yet another complicated package of reforms, the result appears to be something akin to anticlimax. Rather than aggravating French-English tensions, the outcome seems to have left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first...
...Denver: This was unexpectedly an anticlimax; the predicted five inches of snow turned out to be only a light dusting, and the crowd, though intense, was small. In a poetic sense, the 13-month Clinton odyssey should have ended in Albuquerque before finally heading home...
...Harvard players who journeyed to the Beanpot championship game the last two seasons, the game is truly anticlimatic. Compounding the anticlimax is the fact that the Crimson is road weary from two dramatic overtime ties this weekend at far-away Colgate and Cornell...