anticlimactic
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The family ends up in Kansas, which feels anticlimactic, but magically, these pages are the book’s best, featuring reporting and personal reflection and a section on faith that might be the start of a next big project. — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, "Review: What a family learned by ditching their smartphone-addicted lives to roam the world," 31 Aug. 2019 That one is going to have a hard time being anything but anticlimactic. — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, "Dwayne Johnson taps his heritage and a gift for trash-talking for hilarious ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’," 31 July 2019 Sometimes this ease can work against him: Durant’s dominance looks anticlimactic, and his highlights hardly even scan as highlights. — Sam Anderson, New York Times, "Why Do Sports Fans Watch — And Rewatch — Injury Footage?," 3 July 2019 But what wasn't predictable was the incredibly anticlimactic, perfunctory way that Dany went out, being stabbed through the heart by Jon in the middle of a tender embrace with almost no meaningful final dialogue whatsoever. — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, "Game of Thrones Fans Have a Lot of Feelings About Daenerys Targaryen's Ending," 20 May 2019 Yesterday’s announcement of the merger of Viacom and CBS was anticlimactic. — David Meyer, Fortune, "ViacomCBS Bargaining Power: CEO Daily," 14 Aug. 2019 Historians may recall this week for Robert Mueller’s anticlimactic testimony on Capitol Hill. — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump and the G.O.P. Confirm Their Fiscal Conservatism Was a Sham," 26 July 2019 Eventually, Nadal pushed a backhand long on match point No. 5, bringing an anticlimactic close to the otherwise classic contest and allowing Federer to win their semifinal 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday. — Howard Fendrich, baltimoresun.com, "Eleven years after epic, Roger Federer tops Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon semis," 12 July 2019 Considering how much time Veronica spends nodding at Logan’s mysterious job, those results are fairly anticlimactic. — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, "Is That Beloved Veronica Mars Character Really Gone? Here’s Your Only Shred Of Hope," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anticlimactic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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