anticlimax

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Recent Examples of anticlimax But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized. Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024 With Ramos’ catch evoking memories of Mays’ greatest play, the Giants turned an anticlimax into a thriller. Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was on the verge of being pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax. Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024 The fight, contrary to expectation, draws its power from its sustained tension as much as its sudden attacks — think of the exquisite serenity of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin or the anticlimax of Kill Bill: Volume II. Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for anticlimax
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epilogue
Noun
  • Instead, the book’s epilogue jumps ahead to 2195 and reveals that the main narrative of the novel is a transcription of audio tapes discovered long after the fall of Gilead that are being presented in an academic setting.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a photo epilogue of the real soldiers, and many of their faces are blurred.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025

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