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"Arriving Bradford five-thirty, Tom," was the result of final boilings-down, which took so long that we nearly achieved the anticlimax of missing our train altogether. Briggs was perceptible. I kept my patient on the platform until every other passenger had gone: I marched him up and down the main area of the station. Each time I caught sight of a woman who looked a possible Mrs.
Then once more to Gwen, as in discharge of a duty omitted: "God bless you, my lady, for your goodness to us!" Gwen's irresistible vice of anticlimax nearly made her say: "Oh bother!" It was stopped by a sound she thought she heard. "Is she not speaking?" she said. Both listened, and Widow Thrale heard, being the nearer, "Who called you her mother?" she repeated. "I did."
It was, to their minds, an anticlimax, a pusillanimous surrender. None was angrier than John Randolph of Virginia, hitherto the leader of the forces of the Administration in the House.
Anything else is sure to prove an anticlimax. The matter of the peroration should consist of the main conclusion of the lecture, and should begin by gathering together the principal threads of the discourse which should lead to that conclusion. The necessity for a peroration, or strong finish, is recognized in music, the drama, and everything presented before an audience.
Father Gallagher, of the Catholic Church, Dr. Wyatt, of the Episcopal Church, and all the others, have been here. I feel friendly to the Churches, and I treat all alike it won't do for me to be partial I don't give to any!" That last clause was an anticlimax, dashing my hopes rudely; but I saw he meant it, and left.
I objected also to what appears an anticlimax of praise, when contrasted with the preceding panegyrick, 'and diminished the public stock of harmless pleasure! 'Is not harmless pleasure very tame? JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, harmless pleasure is the highest praise.
After the great and dramatic events which characterised the earlier phases of the struggle between the Briton and the Boer for the mastery of South Africa it is somewhat of the nature of an anticlimax to turn one's attention to those scattered operations which prolonged the resistance for a turbulent year at the expense of the lives of many brave men on either side.
And, last of all, he saw something glittering at his feet it was a crown! This was the climax of his dream. Then there came an anticlimax. The rich imagination which had been leading him on as a gaudy butterfly does a child, suddenly changed colour and dropped to earth; and there rose up in his mind the memory of the General's words: "God sets a limit to a man's doings.
It seems to me a fault of proportion, however, that he should shift his locality from Paris to the Riviera, and should place the brief duologue in a romantic woodland scene. An act of anticlimax should be treated, so to speak, as unpretentiously as possible. To invent an elaborate apparatus for it is to emphasize the anticlimax by throwing it into unnecessary relief.
For an hour or more he rubbed shoulders with the press that was on its way to find relief from their own lives in the mimic lives of others behind the footlights. To him in the Now it was comedy enough to watch them as they filed in; it would have been an anticlimax to have gone further.
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