Thus ended in wretched anticlimax the meteor career of Lola Montez; Wonder Woman and wanderer; over-thrower of a dynasty and worse-than-mediocre dancer.
After this it is something of an anticlimax to even take note of the tremendous power wielded by the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press, Section of Political Crimes, which was created in March, 1918.
This scheme, which had been promulgated as early as February, 1919, was a pathetic anticlimax to the ambitious program with which the Bolshevist Utopia-builders set out.
To invent an elaborate apparatus for it is to emphasize the anticlimax by throwing it into unnecessary relief.
This doctrine belongs to the period of the well-made play, when climax was regarded as the one thing needful in dramatic art, and anticlimax as the unforgivable sin.
Footnote 1: The fact that a great poet can ignore such precepts with impunity is proved by the exquisite anticlimax of the third act of D'Annunzio's La Gioconda.
An act of anticlimax should be treated, so to speak, as unpretentiously as possible.
An anticlimax it is, beyond all doubt; but it does not follow that it is an artistic blemish.
But instead of doing so the story falls back to an anticlimax of crowded hospitals, slaughtered horses, and sporadic shell fire.
It was innate abhorrence of the anticlimax that sent her, having looked into the eyes of the unattainable, to lie sobbing for short breath in her corner in the dark, leaving us to imagine the ending if we could.
Jake groaned at the anticlimax to his lofty flight, but he realized that the main business before the house was what his wife propounded.
To all appearance there is bound to be an anticlimax in the fifth act.
In the face of this tame execution of the terrible decree, providing a sorry anticlimax to its noisy proclamation, the German press called for a policy of no compromise with the United States.
What an anticlimax it would be when the defenders of the fort were found to be dead!
There was something so ridiculous in thisanticlimax to his poignant fears that the young man was for the moment actually exasperated.
His anger was directed against Fate, which had arranged such a fantastic anticlimax for his cherished hopes.
To his fancy, this thing passed the compass of simple incredulity: it wasn't merely improbable, it was preposterous; it was anticlimax exaggerated to the proportions of the grotesque.
It was ananticlimax which made her almost hysterical to contemplate.
Still, he was a little surprised that her father's eagerness to send him for Grace should have resulted in such an anticlimax as this.
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