Look up anticlimax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anti-climax or anticlimax (that is, the opposite of climax in its various meanings) may refer to:...

the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element. An anticlimax is a disappointing event after events that were full of excitement. Dramatic...

" As a relative term, anticlimax requires a greater or lesser climax to precede it in order to have proper effect. An anticlimax can be intentionally employed...

Anticlimax reinaudi is a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tornidae. Anticlimax reinaudi has a very small (<1.5 mm), depressed...

within the genus Anticlimax include: Anticlimax aitormonzoni Rubio & Rolán, 2014 Anticlimax annae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1950 Anticlimax athleenae (Pilsbry...

frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists...

becomes critical and the villagers have not got long to live; that's when Anticlimax, one of the villagers, seeks volunteers to go seek help from his second-cousin...

October 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2015. Lowe, Sid (13 May 2013). "A Sense of Anticlimax but Barcelona Still Deserve Their La Liga Title". The Guardian. Retrieved...

Civil War, that when the flag at Fort Sumter is fired on it comes as both anticlimax and relief....As in several recent films, the cast is considerably better...

of a punch line in a narration that is set up as a joke. This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story. In fact, some researchers...

laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn ... To call the ending an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy...

the tire's carcass at the man, who continues to criticize him for the anticlimax. Robert is reincarnated as a tricycle and kills the man in the wheelchair...

village's chief, knwoing they will need help, assigns his best warrior, Anticlimax, to seek help from his cousin in Gaul, after he mentions how they rely...

"Dublin Murders finale review: A nerve-fraying crescendo ends in an anticlimax". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved...

film an "appealing sci-fi romance", but criticized its final act as an "anticlimax", giving it 3 out of 5 stars. Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter said...

released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would...

Retrieved 14 May 2016. Ganesha, Amal (18 December 2016). "Indonesia Tops the Anticlimax as Thailand Wins the 2016 AFF Cup". Jakarta Globe. Archived from the original...

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini have made—it comes as a startling anticlimax to discover that this widely heralded film is incredibly feeble, inarticulate...

.. There are, for instance, the characteristic touches of truism and anticlimax, strange in a man who could both think and, at his best, write so well...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anticlimax, the opposite of auxesis in its climactic sense Catacosmesis, a form of anticlimax Figure of speech Banter Meiosis...

emphasis on monogamy, had been largely gained by men at women's expense. In Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, Sheila Jeffreys asserted...

extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and...

too dumb for Goldie Hawn). The wiring all comes loose at the end; an anticlimax, and a rushed one at that." Fans of the Superman series placed a great...

holds. Sensing his chief does not have much hope of lasting much longer, Anticlimax decides to travel to Gaul and find his cousin Asterix, in order to secure...

Michaels-Kurt Angle bouts, the "main events" offered the worst kind of anticlimax and would have been right at home buried in the middle of the card." He...

of 5 and wrote: "Really, Resurrections doesn't do much to remove the anticlimax that hung like a cloud over the cinema auditorium at the end of the third...

(December 8, 2003). "Steamy Britney Set Brings Holiday Concert To An Anticlimax". MTV. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved April 18...

2 and No. 1. This was intended to keep the tension up, and avoid the anticlimax if Nos. 2 and 3 are announced after the winner. In 1959, the BBC began...

FIfA.com. Retrieved 25 May 2014 Lowe, Sid (13 May 2013). "A Sense of Anticlimax but Barcelona Still Deserve Their La Liga Title". The Guardian. Archived...

and either abrupt or gradual. It is considered to be synonymous with anticlimax. The opposite of catacosmesis is auxesis when used to refer to climax...