I have a fondness for anticlimaxes and jokes about epistemology. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Black's success was anticipated by nobody, but anticlimaxes peppered the year: Kanye West & Jay-Z's Watch The Throne proved to be somewhat less than the sum of its parts, for instance, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way didn't knock the planet off its axis quite as deftly as fans had predicted. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Spraying on cornflakes, anticlimaxes... cheer up folks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fox has the anticlimax of all anticlimaxes to announce Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Quality: Medium/Low (awkward exposition, several anticlimaxes, but some entertainment value) ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lewis's dismal reputation stems largely from the trajectory of his career, which concluded with one of the longest and most depressing anticlimaxes in American letters. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He did not find her in until eight and — oh, climax of anticlimaxes! — she could give him no engagement until Tuesday afternoon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was one of life's anticlimaxes that as the long minutes passed and strength returned, ❋ Putney, Mary Jo (1990)
Here is one of the saddest anticlimaxes of history: "they eat, they expect marvellous results, they wait-and there grows on them the sense of shame" (Procksch). ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
They reveal themselves in his partiality for autobiographical narrative, in his rambling sentence-structure, in his anticlimaxes and afterthoughts. ❋ Unknown (1921)
He did not find her in until eight and -- oh, climax of anticlimaxes! ❋ Unknown (1918)
The anticlimaxes of the first two passages, the bold dip into the future at the expense of the past in the third are more than instances of mere verbal felicity. ❋ Julius West (1904)
In that vault are stored the anticlimaxes that should have been tagged to all the stories that have been told in the world. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
If the Intiman Theatre saga was a play, it would be a mercurial drama plotted with booms and busts, colorful characters, anticlimaxes and reversals. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it's that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart. ❋ By BEN BRANTLEY (2011)
The use of such ironic anticlimaxes is a technique borrowed from Flaubert, the writer who once wrote that "stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions". ❋ Unknown (2011)
Pounded eighth notes by Krzysztof Penderecki score a gathering-storm approach that anticlimaxes at a tidy, ecclesiastical-looking brick campus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
1. "Had sex with Sarah Palin this morning - what an anticlimax..."
2. "Had sex with Sarah Palin this morning, causing my pork [pilaster] to recoil and [backfire] smash-bang up my [Shatner's Bassoon] - what an anticlimax!!!" ❋ Oxford-English-Dictionary (2014)
Three racehorses were sitting in a bar bragging to each other about their life accomplishments.
The first horse boasts "I've been in 59 races and I've won 35 of them."
"That's nothing," says the second horse. "I've [raced] 97 times, and I've won 78 of them!"
The third horse joins in: "Well, I've raced [122] times and I've won 102!"
Just then, the horses hear a voice say, "I've got you all beat!"
The horses look down and see a [greyhound].
"I've raced over 200 times, and I have NEVER lost!"
The horses look at the dog in amazement.
One of them says "How about that! A [talking dog]!" ❋ Dotted Line (2005)
Friend: "[Jennipher] is really into you."
You: "Awesome! I've gotta go tell everybody!"
Friend: "No, Jennipher.. with a [P and a] H, not with an F."
You: "What an [anticlimax]!" ❋ SuperAlterEgo (2009)
"When I [clicked on] 'Anticlimax' I was expecting something [smutty]. It was a real [anticlimax] to find a sensible definition." ❋ Zippy (2005)
[CERN's] newly built [Large Hadron Collider] promises the potential to answer may of life's greatest questions.
However, the greatest threat that it poses is not (as is commonly believed) the creation of a black hole, but in fact an 'anticlimax' caused by some frisky physicists simultaneously [doing the nasty] and discovering the Higgs-Boson particle. ❋ Corner-shop Colin (2011)
Girl- All that shit you were talking trying get laid, and this is what I get, a tiny little flaccid penis? I bet if it did get hard, it would be like [three and a half] inches. I shoulda called those guys I know to remove one of your kidneys.
Guy- I helped you reach the [anticlimax] your man couldn't make didn't I? I don't think you should take it for granted!
Girl- There wasn't anything exciting enough to emphasize with an [exclamation point]. ❋ The Original Agahnim (2021)
While your girl would never reach [the climax] with me that she did with Biggie, I could help her reach an [anticlimax], unless that was too much [negative energy] for her. ❋ The Original Agahnim (2021)
Her man couldn't help her [reach] a [climax], but he could help her reach an [anticlimax] any time. ❋ Solid Mantis (2021)
