Dunham warned that the ending of Girls will be "anticlimactic":
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After all the wrangling, the actual vote was surprisingly anticlimactic.
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It's tremendously anticlimactic, considering what it took to get there.
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It's sort of an anticlimactic entry to the market, true.
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But the final triumph of Madame M isn't just anticlimactic.
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The 214 Emmys were at once enthralling and utterly anticlimactic.
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But policy reviews under Mrs May have so far been anticlimactic.
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The drone's anticlimactic fate is a microcosm of this entire film.
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But this anticlimactic ending may be exactly what the series needs.
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It would be way too random and anticlimactic if she's not.
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Fashion Review MILAN — It was probably always going to be anticlimactic.
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It's a consistent, coherent, well-crafted album, but it feels anticlimactic.
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He said during the Oval Office meeting the impeachment felt anticlimactic.
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The experience of seeing it in person is a little anticlimactic.
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After all the build up, the finished product was anticlimactic at best.
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Anticlimactic is definitely a way to end your critically acclaimed TV series.
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Marsha sits at the Stonewall Inn bar to celebrate her anticlimactic birthday.
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What she actually had: Two anticlimactic pages of a 2005 343 form.
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We can be excused if this roll out seems a little anticlimactic.
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The issuance of the report itself was almost guaranteed to be anticlimactic.
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Blonde is a consistent, coherent, well-crafted album, but it feels anticlimactic.
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It was anticlimactic in the way that inevitable things tend to be.
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But when the vote itself finally came, it was abrupt, even anticlimactic.
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This, and the book's finale, "The Gathering," seem appended, an anticlimactic climax.
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An oil embargo would be as dramatic as Monday's sanctions were anticlimactic.
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That&aposs according to current Googlers, who said the changeover felt anticlimactic.
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OVERSHADOWED Sometimes, the finale feels anticlimactic compared to what happened in Game 6.
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It was so surreal that the moment ended up being more anticlimactic than emotional.
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If you've only seen fictional women's water breaking, these YouTube videos might seem anticlimactic.
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But for Gilmore Girls, talking explicitly about these issues would be kind of anticlimactic.
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If you see "All the Money" first, though, "Trust" will feel a little anticlimactic.
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He acknowledged that the moment of her ascent to the top spot was anticlimactic.
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" While acknowledging that the ending was anticlimactic, the New Zealand Herald called it "captivating.
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It seemed a bit anticlimactic, those five L's and five R's arranged like that.
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It can feel a little anticlimactic when Halloween falls in the middle of the week.
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And I definitely understand where Paul Manafort's trial might seem anticlimactic, even unrelated to Russia.
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Viewers don't even see the star-crossed young lovers after their anticlimactic "Forbidden Fruit" death.
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It's not really clear, it's anticlimactic, and the whole thing probably should have ended sooner.
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At the risk of seeming anticlimactic: The Thing is a mummified mother and her child.
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In the din, the arrival of Nicki Minaj, Zoë Kravitz, and Tyga, seemed almost anticlimactic.
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The six had a combined 14-2-4 record heading into Sunday's anticlimactic singles matches.
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The process itself was about as anticlimactic as an arguably life-saving event can be.
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I was prepared for the "transcript" released by the White House yesterday to feel anticlimactic.
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It was an anticlimactic note for the end of the decade but an important lesson.
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This game, like most in the anticlimactic first round, was never as suspenseful as expected.
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After spending time with Stalin, one finds Hitler and Mussolini, taken as authors, almost anticlimactic.
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Even her final confrontation with her nemesis, realistic though it undoubtedly is, feels decidedly anticlimactic.
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The final few rounds were anticlimactic as Broner played it safe and Pacquiao stayed in control.
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It's an anticlimactic, predictably overproduced note on an album that's otherwise, well, spitting plenty of venom.
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Photo: Getty ImagesAfter two years, Apple's legal spats with Qualcomm have come to an anticlimactic end.
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All this needed was a Celine Dion score as the icing on a cheesy, anticlimactic cake.
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"Such an anticlimactic and disappointing experience meeting Summer Walker," the fan wrote in an Instagram caption.
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Daniels finally took the stage, and her act, no longer than ten minutes, was pretty anticlimactic.
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The reality was anticlimactic: Vivian stood for hours in a cold drizzle, waving a Chinese flag.
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Though much anticipated, the actual trial of Johnson ended up being more than a bit anticlimactic.
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Yael: I agree, not the best ending, and beating WhiteRose ended up seeming a bit anticlimactic.
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Even when he gives in to his temper, the performance is so understated that it feels anticlimactic.
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Nothing will ever be as funny to me as how reliably anticlimactic this franchise's musical guests are.
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Presley also doesn't escalate the challenges that face Seppala, which makes the run feel repetitive, even anticlimactic.
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Just a few minutes on the phone can save you from a disappointing and anticlimactic Saturday night.
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He finished the at-bat as a righty, which is kind of anticlimactic if you ask me.
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As for how DeDe dies ... it was rather anticlimactic ... in her sleep during a trip to Greenland.
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PARIS — After such a long wait, reaching the summit of men's tennis was anticlimactic for Andy Murray.
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The final three games of the first round wound up a lot like the first 1073: Anticlimactic.
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The final task is a test that delivers a twist in the movie but here seems anticlimactic.
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Akecheta's encounter with Emily felt anticlimactic and cryptic, and it didn't tell me anything new about either character.
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The moral of this story is anticlimactic and ethically suspect: I gave up on the vegan dog food.
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Given how strongly the company had signaled this set of results, the earnings report was a bit anticlimactic.
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Ben Carson, soft-spoken, anticlimactic bringer of dreams, officially dropped out of the presidential race on March 4.
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Anticlimactic, perhaps, but probably a relief for Team Flash, since the gang has experienced plenty of betrayal already.
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Instead of finishing up with a shocking moment, it just sort of ... ends, in a rather anticlimactic fashion.
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Maybe it will be the most banal, anticlimactic series finale of all time: game night at Carrie's house.
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It was a cracking fight with an unfortunately anticlimactic ending, but it showed how much Poirier has improved.
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I did one in the A5 and, just like the other stalls, it was anticlimactic in the extreme.
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"It's almost anticlimactic because all women have in this country is the right to vote," Ms. Bové said.
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With what would have been an anticlimactic playoff looming, Schauffele hit a 347-yard drive on No. 18.
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Notably, the "We Broke Up" genre is anticlimactic with vloggers explicitly refusing to reveal any "tea" or drama.
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For all of the hours of preparation, the actual drawing is somehow as stressful as it is anticlimactic.
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If this really is Carmelo Anthony's last season with the Knicks, he may leave with an anticlimactic goodbye.
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Stephen Colbert's post–Super Bowl Late Show was the perfect way to wind down after the (horribly anticlimactic) game.
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After all that, it was almost anticlimactic when White scored on a 1-yard run with 57 seconds remaining.
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The entire morning had been completely anticlimactic and I missed the cathartic come-down after an insane panic episode.
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For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon.
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Without the fabulous sea-witch Ursula, The Little Mermaid would just be a short, anticlimactic tale of unrequited love.
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Mueller's anticlimactic finish to the special counsel's probe on Friday made clear no such Trump-Putin criminal conspiracy existed.
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Effects that might have looked crafty and imaginative in the original production look cheesy and anticlimactic in this one.
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One anticlimactic scenario is that ANITA simply suffered some kind of systemic or instrumental error that produced unusual results.
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But in my opinion, tiny, delicate, ornamental desserts are a touch anticlimactic at the end of a holiday meal.
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WILBER: For some, cluing can feel anticlimactic after the euphoria of wrestling all those letters into submission … er, position.
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It also left a lot of unanswered questions, not least of which was: Why did it feel so anticlimactic?
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The news was a bit anticlimactic as VMware had jumped the gun with a blog post earlier in the day.
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So, I think if you're a fan of the show, you'll find the ending anticlimactic in just the right way.
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In a string that was so good it was almost anticlimactic, he managed to close out his season as well.
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Despite this ultimately anticlimactic outcome of my week, I'm not willing to jump on the "CBD is snake oil" bandwagon.
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But in the end, the 11-hour drive from Aden to northern Yemen — the most dangerous stretch — proved strangely anticlimactic.
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Officials have released few details of that conversation and several others that have since occurred, although some were decidedly anticlimactic.
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And the meeting proved to be anticlimactic, with the academy's board of governors voting to maintain the current eligibility rules.
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The result, somewhat anticlimactic, encapsulated how much the art and antiques trade — and interiors themselves — have changed in recent years.
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Though the anticlimactic, simulated nature of the actual "race" let lots of people down, the real point of Phelps vs.
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Melisandre's seemingly random, anticlimactic death isn't the first time the show has disposed of someone with the long game in mind.
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The atmosphere at Sanders headquarters was as confused and anticlimactic as at every other campaign headquarters — and across the political world.
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The most anticlimactic thing in the world, but because of the situation you understand how powerless [Michael Shannon's character Roy] is.
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It was yet another Denny Hamlin runaway in an anticlimactic end to Nascar's regular season at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia.
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I had expected the high to alter me in some profound and mystifying way, but the effect was underwhelming and anticlimactic.
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Mayweather beat Pacquiao in 2015, thwarting the Filipino's best attacks with a defensive masterclass, earning the American an anticlimactic decision win.
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While this long-anticipated comeback was altogether anticlimactic, however, Fedor's legions of dedicated fans did their best to maintain their optimism.
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The final, final boss is one of these and it's probably the most barren, anticlimactic ideas the franchise has ever had.
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Rachel Maddow's anticlimactic revelation of President Trump's 2005 tax return (or part of it, anyway) dominated late-night TV on Wednesday.
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While many people reacted positively to the promotion, others felt it was an anticlimactic letdown — and a confusing one at that.
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Bathed in the melancholy spring sunshine, they represent the anticlimactic denouement of an end-of-season DVD that's yet to be released.
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The anticlimactic vote seemed to close a chapter on a reported feud between the tech giant and legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
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Things like Luke's role and Snoke's anticlimactic death challenge what many thought was going to be the central conflict of the trilogy.
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Some refused to leave, and a total of 288 protesters were jailed — making July 13 the anticlimactic official end of the campaign.
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Photo: Gizmodo / Dell CameronThe experience of using a 5G phone for the first time is a bit anticlimactic, if I'm being honest.
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Yet even the rapid conclusion (which may have felt a little anticlimactic) works because it makes way for more important character work.
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Democrats, deflated by the Mueller report's anticlimactic rollout, decided to move on rather than keep the focus on Trump's world-historic treachery.
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The decision is an anticlimactic end to an investigation that included demands for millions of pages of internal documents from the companies.
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"184 Seconds" was anticlimactic by design, privileging invisible technique while eliminating any perceptible effect — all hat, in other words, and no rabbit.
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Then season one comes along and darkens this idea considerably, but justice arrives in the end (albeit in an anticlimactic and unsatisfying finale).
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It was, all things considered, an anticlimactic entrance after more than three months of words and warnings, all of them uttered by Barnes.
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In very anticlimactic fashion, Ferrari's two cars would fail to finish the race, with both being declared unable to continue by Lap 227.
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It's a little anticlimactic after last week, so hopefully, the show will find time to really dig into what Toby is going through.
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The Fed minutes should be anticlimactic after recent comments from Fed officials, who are pointing to a December rate hike at every opportunity.
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It's a little anticlimactic, especially considering the fact that last season's prize was a former software sales rep with a penchant for muttering.
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Then the brothers joined Spark's gene therapy trial for hemophilia B. The actual infusion of the experimental drug was anticlimactic, Jay Konduros recalled.
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While the setup diminished the intensity that preceded it, it couldn't help seeming somewhat anticlimactic considering how much we'd all been through together.
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But the elusive link proves anticlimactic when it finally emerges, and even at a mere 90 minutes the evening wears out its welcome.
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It was a lengthy, almost two-year wait for the Mueller report to be delivered, and Stephen Colbert thought it was, well, anticlimactic.
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Just like the 1003 Boston Red Sox, whose World Series win was an anticlimactic sweep, the stage seemed set for a drab Cubs romp.
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That Mr. Minhaj, who is 30, is still brooding about high school is a bit worrisome, but mostly these set pieces are just anticlimactic.
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If this seems anticlimactic to you, then you try getting through TSA checkpoint without getting your curls ruffled by an officer at least once.
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Last night was game one of the NBA finals, and anticlimactic as the game itself was there was no shortage of action off-court.
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Audiences and critics alike were deeply frustrated with the fourth and possibly final season of Sherlock, which ended with a madcap but anticlimactic finale.
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For starters, there's the story, which deflates around halfway through; the lack of a convincing adversary; and Major's anticlimactic fight against a spider-robot.
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So when Season 4 finally came around, it was both surprising and anticlimactic to see that it... barely seemed to affect him at all.
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For a week in which the China trade war ramped up from $50 billion to $250 billion and beyond, the experience has seemed anticlimactic.
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Earlier Friday, the legislation cleared the House by unanimous consent and the Senate by voice vote, an anticlimactic end to the weeks-long drama.
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Stephen's ressentiment drives him to more and more desperate choices, less and less realistically, culminating in an absurd and anticlimactic trip across the country.
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After a minute or so, he drove off — the Kanye West concert was not to be, an anticlimactic end to a roller coaster day.
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The layers of Ms. Channing's interpretation, with its core of lacerating anguish, are more intriguing than the plot that builds to an anticlimactic reveal.
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An anticlimactic reunion episode published on YouTube details the disappointment we'd encounter if we followed these relationships any further: Each one fizzled and faded.
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The tournament here seemed headed toward an anticlimactic finish when Johnson made the turn in four-under 31 to take a four-stroke lead.
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As an expat who has been living in London for eight years under an Irish passport courtesy of my grandfather, the process was more anticlimactic.
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Are you going to feel like it was a big anticlimactic cheat if we walk away from this story with all of the heroes alive?
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This time last month, Google took the surprise (and anticlimactic) move of tweeting out images of the Pixel 4 well ahead of its October launch.
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Compared to 2016, when the year ended with three consecutive Supermoons in the months of October, November, and December — 2017 might feel a bit anticlimactic.
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Since joining the National League in 1969, the former Montreal Expos have won plenty o' nuthin' and their few postseason appearances have been painfully anticlimactic.
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Without getting into spoilers (I mean, we know Doctor Strange had to win), can I just say that the way he does it seems… anticlimactic?
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Clinton is serious and releases files on Area 51 — those, she adds, that do not breach the country's security — the result will probably be anticlimactic.
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Although Tuesday had promised to be a watershed moment in the nation's political history, it proved anticlimactic after The A.P. reported Monday night that Mrs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump's looming decision about whether to keep the United States in the Paris climate agreement will be, let's say, anticlimactic.
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After all the weird, wild adventures that Rick and Morty took us on this season, that finale couldn't help but feel a little bit ... anticlimactic.
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The moment we had all been waiting for — Chad's creepy, serial killer return to the little cabin full of bachelors — was, well, a little anticlimactic.
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All in all, it was an anticlimactic start to what had seemed, for a time, to be a potentially revealing and explosive string of witnesses.
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James Corden razzed Amazon on Tuesday for the anticlimactic news that it would set up new headquarters in New York and the Washington metro area.
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The album's sweeping, sneakily anticlimactic arc suggests a grand joke about symphonic structure, receding back into atonal shimmer right when you expect tragic, triumphant closure.
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Does it not seem a little anticlimactic, then, that he is apparently snuffed out for good when a thug holds his face in a puddle?
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Just two weeks after it was launched, Jill Stein's push for a recount of the presidential vote in three states has come to an anticlimactic end.
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The talky pace of his raps was an anticlimactic downturn from what the rest of the night offered, though some were in favor of the switch.
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As fans learned from the utterly anticlimactic reveal of Burial's real name and MySpace selfie over a decade ago, facts are typically more mundane than mystery.
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Douglass's political life after the war's end and Lincoln's assassination may seem anticlimactic, and yet in many respects it is as important as what preceded it.
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On dissecting the debate for the final playoff spot, because the anticlimactic truth is that Alabama and Ohio State each had a case making the field.
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The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, an anticlimactic result that felt preordained ever since Kevin Durant broke The Player's Tribune 22019 months ago.
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It featured an extremely deflated group of so-called "competition winners" who stepped on set to do the most anticlimactic new year's countdown live on air.
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Some analysts are anticipating disappointing results could come from this year's over-valued unicorns including Uber's anticlimactic market debut and pre-IPO bust of WeWork's valuation.
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To their surprise, Netflix streamers in the UK trying to enjoy the 2004 romantic drama were subjected to an alternate ending that was much more anticlimactic.
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The anticlimactic outcome of the immigration debate could have an impact on his prospects in the fall, as CNN rates this race as a toss-up.
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It all figures to be great to watch, in its anticlimactic way—a total symmetry of ability and system, an approach scrubbed of risk that maximizes reward.
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Given the strength of the rumors of his departure that have been circulating since January, this may go down as the most anticlimactic fashion announcement ever made.
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It's not a perfect film -- the main character dies offscreen, and the ending feels anticlimactic -- but its best scenes are filled with visual poetry and simmering dread.
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It's New Year's Eve, let's make it nice: Salmon Roasted in Butter Maybe it feels a little anticlimactic to just have chicken cutlets on New Year's Eve?
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It was the second successive anticlimactic ending on tennis's most famous stage after Novak Djokovic's opponent, Martin Klizan also called it quits midway through their second set.
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Beating the highly favored Orioles was almost anticlimactic: It was truly about the journey from hopelessness to champions of the world without having to pass through mediocrity.
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In truth, though, the outcome was somewhat anticlimactic: Members of Parliament have been vocal about their opposition to the withdrawal agreement ever since May delivered it last year.
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"After all the construction, all the pre-operational testing, all that's gone on here, today's announcement might seem to be anticlimactic to some," Johnson said outside the plant.
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In my own experience however, it's uncomfortable, awkward, anticlimactic in both the literal and figurative sense and because of all that, liable to provoke boner-wilting performance anxiety.
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The war came to an anticlimactic conclusion via Notes app, in which Westbrook called for an end to the receipts and acknowledged her own immaturity in the situation.
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Going back to watching that one dude strum along to "The Sound of Silence" over and over on the 6 platform is going to be so anticlimactic, huh?
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OTTAWA — When it becomes legal on Wednesday in Canada to buy marijuana for recreational use, rather than under doctor's orders, the occasion may be anticlimactic for many Canadians.
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But the sheer quantity of clever sentences and wry observations weighs the story down, until the championship game becomes not only anticlimactic, but also strangely beside the point.
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So the serenading fourth movement wasn't able to function as a respite, and the sudden blaze of the finale was anticlimactic: grounded and surprisingly intimate, but not exhilarating.
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The Philadelphia Phillies debuted a new look for their beloved mascot, the Phanatic, this weekend -- but in very anticlimactic fashion ... he appears to have not changed very much.
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Van Ness Mine was kind of anticlimactic in that I just started responding yes to kids' taunts and constant questions about it by the time I was like 10.
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As a result, back in January, Google announced it was taking its $30 million in prize money back, leaving the exciting challenge with a bit of an anticlimactic end.
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I sat for the suggested 15 minutes scrolling my phone and texting my old med school roommate, who replied, "HAHAHAHA STOP IT." All in all, it was pretty anticlimactic.
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While her own performance was anticlimactic, the Democratic convention showed that Clinton has a figurative village of passionate and high-profile campaigners who can sell her candidacy for her.
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Mantia said mass start was something casual spectators might enjoy more than the other long-track events, which unfold in stop-and-start increments and often can be anticlimactic.
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We may find the tradition fairly useless and anticlimactic, but that doesn't mean we don't still have a soft spot for the versions we see on TV and in movies.
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The two had a brief, testy but fizzled reunion in season seven — that was so anticlimactic that here at Vox, we began to doubt that the Cleganebowl would ever happen.
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Nicolay said that starting with Salt Lake City, the I.O.C. agreed to switch the order of presentation from gold, silver, bronze to bronze, silver, gold, to make it less anticlimactic.
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It currently is the final event on the WTA calendar, an anticlimactic state of affairs that Simon expects to be corrected in 2019 by moving Zhuhai forward on the schedule.
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Thanks to Bogart's perplexed underplaying and the anticlimactic ending, "Beat the Devil" was misunderstood in much the way that Elaine May's not dissimilar anti-thriller "Ishtar" would be in 1987.
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The clumsy foreshadowing notwithstanding, the scene's anticlimactic nature exposes a fundamental paradox of the show: The stakes of the series' very first scene were possibly too high, and thus desensitizing.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The New York City commission that was created to evaluate controversial public monuments has ended its five-month inquiry with a somewhat anticlimactic ruling.
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The lighting of the cauldron was slightly anticlimactic compared with cauldron lightings from previous games, but overall the ceremony was as artistic as Barcelona, and on a much grander scale.
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The titular dance was the most anticlimactic moment of the ep — I needed that reminder to convince me that the show is actually self-conscious about what it's doing here.
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So while the acting Oscars can seem a little anticlimactic after so many months of awards season buildup, there's still some potential this year for surprising — or at least satisfying — results.
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The race was billed as a heavyweight prize fight, but ended up being anticlimactic, as Johnson pulled up with a quad injury, allowing Bailey to easily win the hyped-up event.
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Worldly guitar solos, quality anticlimactic choreography, pragmatic irreverence, energizing poetic turnups and goddamn topsy-turvy going intertwined together—come to your joyful love journey and ride your uptight, stoned tiny horses.
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But an anticlimactic last stanza like that of Duparc's "Sérénade," in which the poet Gabriel Marc fears that "in vain I seek to please you," requires a more psychologically curious singer.
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Overshadowed by a pair of anticlimactic blowouts and a cinematic Game 211 that fell in his team's favor, Draymond Green has quietly played some very bad basketball in the NBA Finals.
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This season, she has been on a mission to find her daughter from a previous story line, but when she finally gets there in "Phase Space," the moment is curiously anticlimactic.
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After Iowa's caucuses proved so anticlimactic, the primary in New Hampshire — and the debate that proceeds it — could have more importance than usual in setting a new narrative for the campaign.
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After Iowa's caucuses proved so anticlimactic, the primary in New Hampshire — and the debate that preceded it — could have more importance than usual in setting a new narrative for the campaign.
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But on Thursday, as if to emphasize how anticlimactic the event was, it used a vote-by-email process reserved for technical decisions that don't require top officials or august gatherings.
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It was almost anticlimactic that early January day when Jobs finally got up onstage and, with a wave of his hand, changed the idea of mobile phones—and personal computing—forever. Almost.
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Perhaps the genuinely astonishing death of the Night King could have made up for the Battle of Winterfell's dissatisfying body count — if only his and his army's demise hadn't been so anticlimactic.
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So for all of you disappointed with the anticlimactic finish to the Peus/Samantha story line, hold tight because it appears that we haven't found the top of the food chain yet.
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When an idiot calls you a loser: Trump released his "highly anticipated" and utterly anticlimactic 2017 Fake News Awards last night — and the GOP site that was hosting it immediately went down.
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Instead, it uses an oddly anticlimactic framing device: you and your teammates are entering an Umbrella Corporation training sim that looks like different rooms from various games, designed to test your teamwork skills.
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Seven years after that anticlimactic conversation in the car, the relationship I'd been so afraid to confess to my mother was suddenly over, a unilateral decision delivered by phone during a weekday afternoon.
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All these threads are developed excessively and unconvincingly, and when the knots are at last unraveled, the payoff is anticlimactic, perhaps because this whole subplot was never integral to the book's central concerns.
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It's the dead of night on the farm and Daryl, who up until now was merely a bystander in a sheep rustling case, has a somewhat unexpected yet wholly anticlimactic confession to make.
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But the film spends surprisingly little time on the details of the director-replacement project — possibly since by the time they were editing it, Pallotta and Wolting knew the outcome would be anticlimactic.
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And then we got the introduction to Mad Queen Daenerys, who burns King's Landing to ashes—children included—along with a series of anticlimactic deaths that put the Night King's defeat to shame.
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And by giving Rick an anticlimactic ending (at least for now; who knows if we'll get a Season 4), Rick and Morty has turned Rick's own "nothing matters" attitude back around on him.
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Either way, the movie ended up with a bizarre final scene that feels anticlimactic and unresolved if you've never read the book, and like a downright betrayal of the premise if you have.
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But living under Trump has inured many of us to shock; momentous developments, like Cohen being sentenced to three years in prison, end up feeling anticlimactic, particularly with most Republicans refusing to act.
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That James still managed to drag the Cavaliers into the finals — again — was nothing short of heroic, even if it ended in a sweep by the Warriors in a series that felt anticlimactic.
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"We may be reflecting back on this a week from now as hugely anticlimactic, but there's certainly huge potential for the opposite to be true," said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda.
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However, the 25 basis point increase in the Fed funds target rate has become somewhat anticlimactic, not just because it's been so long anticipated but because there's a new game in town for investors.
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Driving the Chevrolet Bolt is a bit anticlimactic at first; it feels a lot like driving an ordinary car initially, albeit one with more pick-up than the average compact four-door can offer.
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On the surface, Simon's forgiveness and Negan's arrival felt disjointed and anticlimactic, as if The Walking Dead had just spoiled its most interesting show-specific plotline,putting its characters right back where they started.
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It has been a long journey to this point for Paglen, no matter how anticlimactic it seemed to watch a cube of metal being vibrated at frequencies beyond what the human eye can detect.
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This would not be a meeting of two equal Big Ten powers, as many had predicted before the season, but a clash that would most likely end in an anticlimactic dissection of the Spartans.
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The true mystery of the novel is not what became of Arabella (which proves anticlimactic), but who Charles Heist is and how his life story intersects with the history of the Rabbits and Bears.
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The standoff promised to turn into a blockbuster case pitting the FBI against one of the world's most profitable companies, but it became surprisingly anticlimactic after the outside firm came to the FBI's aid.
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But the last episode -- coming after the death of its title character -- couldn't help but feel a bit anticlimactic, looking back to its past even as it endeavored to plant seeds for the future.
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The flip side of the previous scenario is the theory, popular on the right, that Mueller is actually building toward an anticlimactic end to his investigation because he's come up empty on his central charge.
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Senate Finance Committee leaders have asked 5 pharmacy benefit managers to come up to Capitol Hill for a hearing, as a follow-up to the panel's largely anticlimactic sit-down with pharmaceutical CEOs last month.
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The game was an anticlimactic end to a day for Philadelphia in which the Sixers changed the course of their franchise when they announced the acquisition of four-time All-Star Jimmy Butler from Minnesota.
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This Thursday, the final findings of the NASA Twins Study were published in Science, and they're still plenty cool—if a little anticlimactic when measured against the media hype the research got a year ago.
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The end is slightly anticlimactic — they sort of good-naturedly walk away without either emerging as victor — but that's fine, because it's still objectively awesome, the peak of where athletic performance, where fate can take you.
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The alleged passage of trade secrets from Google—specifically its own autonomous vehicle division, Waymo—into the hands of Uber led to last year's legal showdown, which ended in an anticlimactic settlement after just four days.
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You needn't celebrate the holiday or buy a single piece of product to get swept up in the ecstasy of an anticipatory period that, like all anticipatory periods, beats the anticlimactic event by a miracle mile.
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After all of Philip and Elizabeth's agonizing, after all their back and forth with the Centre on whether or not going back to Moscow would be the right call, this single moment upending everything felt anticlimactic.
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This marked the moment when David was forced to vacate the last home that was spacious enough for him to throw a party, which in turn suggested that The Loft had come to an anticlimactic end.
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I'm not sure what kind of change I expected upon launching Leave Your Mark, but I can tell you that going back to the same desk every day after a multi-week press blitz felt very anticlimactic.
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When the production reaches its no-holds-bar climax, which involves the trashing of Mr. Pask's office snack room set, it's anticlimactic; Mr. Daniels and Ms. Williams have already been there, done that, and so have we.
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When the production reaches its no-holds-barred climax, which involves the trashing of Mr. Pask's office snack room set, it's anticlimactic; Mr. Daniels and Ms. Williams have already been there, done that, and so have we.
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On Monday night, the Golden State Warriors swept the San Antonio Spurs from the playoffs in an anticlimactic series that had been almost immediately contaminated when Zaza Pachulia's foot slid beneath Kawhi Leonard's ankle in Game 1.
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In what will go down as one of civilization's most pathetic and anticlimactic nadirs, he promised to release the album if Donald Trump became President, but decided not to because, I don't fucking know, he's Martin Shkreli.
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Until now, nation-state cyber activity has amounted to little more than threats and conversations behind closed doors, as illustrated by last year's anticlimactic U.S.-China cyber pact meant to prevent nation-state hacking of private companies.
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Do your research before going into the interview Clark recalled his interview as being really "anticlimactic" — a straightforward video session where people are asked to speak in depth about why they want to go to law school.
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It was an anticlimactic end to a prolonged wait for users of MacBook Pro and Air laptops alike, and it led many of us to grow curious about how far the Windows alternatives had evolved in that time.
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I was 16, broke, and…Read more ReadSprint Drove Me to a Dumpster in Texas to Show Me the FutureThe experience of using a 5G phone for the first time is a bit anticlimactic, if I'm being honest.
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So to end up with Bran, who was more memorable for his blank stare than for his one-liner dialogue and was disposable enough to sit out an entire season at one point, registered to some as anticlimactic.
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Yet inside and outside the bank, it was anticlimactic — a reflection of the fact that the succession plan has been on public display for months and the expectation that the bank's strategy won't change radically under Mr. Solomon.
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Instead, Liptrot makes a realistic, anticlimactic but ultimately braver and more honest narrative decision to reveal her Turning Point as an emotional threshold — she just couldn't take the pain of drinking any longer and enrolls herself in rehab.
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Trump has even suggested the timing of the testimony, which fell in between a social dinner with Kim in Hanoi and the start of more formal talks the next morning, could have contributed to the summit's anticlimactic ending.
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His weak sixth-place finish in New Hampshire, getting 7 percent of the vote and no delegates, represents a slouching and anticlimactic finale for a politician who once had looked like a powerful favorite for the G.O.P. presidential nomination.
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I have been there three times in the last two years — once to see Trina perform on an old vault for a Borscht Film Festival party, then for an anticlimactic ghost tour, and last night, for Prizm Art Fair.
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But their first collaboration, on the 2014 Mike WiLL Made It single "Buy The World," was anticlimactic, and "Mona Lisa" is the faceoff fans have hoped for: five furious minutes of rapidfire storytelling bars from two all-time greats.
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Kelly's anticlimactic Skype call, in fact, demonstrates the effectiveness of Sidekick's "Remote Expert Mode," which allows teams on the ground to directly help an astronaut repair the ISS rather than having to rely on mere written or spoken instructions.
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Mr. Rust looked to a different decade, the 1970s, as a bridge between the eras portrayed by "Mad Men" and the current crop of shows, and noted a possible subconscious influence in opening "Love" with an anticlimactic sex scene.
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But in many ways, his selection was almost an anticlimactic moment after days of increasing speculation that the Knicks might trade Kristaps Porzingis, their budding 7-foot-63 star who has become estranged from the team's president, Phil Jackson.
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Bringing back Gervais to pretty much run through the same shtick he pulled out a few years ago felt anticlimactic after three straight years of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey tackling Hollywood's worst qualities while also not seeming like total jerks.
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The surprise withdrawal marks an anticlimactic end to a bidding war that had pitted Marriott's ambitions to create the world's largest lodging company, with about 26.5,21.6 hotels, against Anbang's drive to create a vast portfolio of U.S. real estate assets.
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Norrie said that he imagined that he would eventually look back on the end of the match with fondness, but that the anticlimactic finish had made his first victory in the main draw of a Grand Slam event feel hollow.
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But the moment, devoid of the fresh revelations and searing witness accounts that characterized November's hearings, felt anticlimactic as Democratic lawyers for the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees made the case that many Americans might be able to recite by heart.
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Whatever you do on February 14, however awkward, however anticlimactic, however boring or disappointing I want you to remember this: I spent £37 to drunkenly grind through the night sky with my ex-boyfriend, who hates heights and doesn't drink wine.
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Cleganebowl, or even a dramatic lead-up to it happening someday For fans hyped about "Cleganebowl," the seemingly inevitable grudge match between Sandor "the Hound" Clegane and his brother Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane, their actual face-off in the finale was anticlimactic.
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It was an anticlimactic response to a thundering volley of questions from the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who had clearly watched Zuckerberg's appearances on Capitol Hill and sought to drill deeper on some of the more pressing questions about the company.
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Combined with comments that the Fed's balance sheet would remain larger than previously expected, the Fed's meeting this week may mark a somewhat anticlimactic end to its years-long battle to "normalize" monetary policy after the 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession.
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It was a slightly anticlimactic end, but none of the West Indian players and coaches who surged onto the field — or the men's squad, who joined the celebrations before heading to the locker room before their own match — complained about the result.
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The US 2nd Cavalry Regiment's passage through the sleepy Suwalki Gap earlier this month was the anticlimactic highlight of a 1,500-mile road march that would take the regiment's Fourth Squadron from their base in southern Germany to the northern tip of Estonia.
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All of this is to say that the somewhat underwhelming and anticlimactic role of the direwolves in the TV adaptation of Game of Thrones could turn out to be quite different in the books, which are not constrained by budgeting or special effects concerns.
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The patience we have as readers for the parts of the book where Crowley and Aziraphale aren't happily bantering away doesn't yield the same sort of rewards when stripped of their literary pleasures, and the ending may feel abrupt and largely anticlimactic to many newcomers.
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The short procedural ruling — and the fact that no justice wrote a dissent — seemed weirdly anticlimactic to legal observers, given how dramatic the facts of the case were and how long the Supreme Court had been considering the Trump administration's request for an appeal.
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We got John at LAX -- who was recast in his old role as Roseanne's hubby, in a revival season that premiered on ABC Tuesday night -- and his response to "Roseanne" churning out a whopping 18.2 million viewers was, well, oddly anticlimactic ... to say the least.
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BEST 1 VS. 16 STORY Men: No. 16 University of Maryland-Baltimore County not only defeated top-seeded Virginia, the Retrievers destroyed the Cavaliers 74-123 We waited decades for a No. 16 to upset a No. 1 on the men's side and somehow this felt anticlimactic.
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While Daenerys versus Cersei (versus Jon Snow?) is packed with more personal drama than the White Walker war — for all the Night King's power, he wasn't exactly much for character motivations or even dialogue — the current stakes feel anticlimactic, far lower than the Battle of Winterfell.
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Stardust eventually turned on Goldust, and rather than a major WrestleMania payoff for a very hot angle with a very simple story—brother against brother, as old a story as exists on Earth—the feud ended with an anticlimactic roll-up loss on a B-level event.
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The muted atmosphere played itself out again and again around the Capitol, described by one senator as a "ghost town," in the anticlimactic first day of a partial shutdown that is impacting roughly 25 percent of the government and furloughing hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
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And yet this year, the announcement that Cate Blanchett and Roger Federer had taken top honors, that Janelle Monáe, Zoë Kravitz, LeBron James and Zac Posen (among others — 30 in all, from 16 countries) had also been recognized, feels more anticlimactic than edge-of-the-seat anticipatory.
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Often those conflicts are anticlimactic, dealt with in hearings with licensing authorities, or committee zoning meetings, but sometimes—as happened last year at Amnesia Ibiza—police show up, shut the club down, and seize millions of euros in cash in conjunction with an investigation of money laundering.
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Although the organizers tried to give the event an epic feel by kicking it off with fireworks and showing live commentary on the video screens, it soon became clear that Mewtwo was by far the easiest legendary raid yet seen in Pokémon Go, which made it feel somewhat anticlimactic.
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Although Mars is normally a very energetic planet, when it's in a water sign like Pisces, it may put a bit of damper on the fanfare of Jupiter entering Sagittarius — Dewhirst compares it to that anticlimactic moment when you try to light a firework, but the matches are damp.
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" So begins Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's 2018 film Empty Metal: three shivering hipsters stare dead-eyed into a bonfire as one of them relays, via disembodied voiceover, "I have come to realize that the inevitable destruction of the status quo will be more of a confused, anticlimactic rot.
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The New York house legend doesn't make it to the Midwest very often and house heads still speak in awe about his 2012 Movement boat party performance, so this kick-off event will either set the stage for the whole weekend, or make the following three days anticlimactic.
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It does not, however, close the narrative doors left open by Netflix's other series, and knowing that its finale is the last anyone will see of the New York–based heroes makes its ending more anticlimactic than it would have been if the other shows had new material in the pipeline.
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That may seem anticlimactic, given how fast it all happens and that he doesn't even live to see the effect of his sacrifice, but his protection of Arya does speak to something more significant: the consistency between the prophecies Melisandre had from the Lord of Light and those Thoros had.
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For a few moments, it all feels like a whole lot of lead up for nothing — a fairly anticlimactic introduction from a company that learned how to launch a product from none other than Tim Cook himself, when Anki's Drive car set was first unveiled during the 2013 WWDC keynote.
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John Adams pines for Constance Fletcher; Jo the Loiterer marries Indiana Elliot and they bicker about changing her name; in the work's heart-rending climax — laughably anticlimactic to describe — her allies try to get Susan B., wearied to her core, to leave her house and speak at one more meeting.
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LOS ANGELES — For a dynastic drama that played out over decades, with sons falling in and out of favor and an aging father unwilling to loosen his grasp, the accession on Wednesday was anticlimactic: Lachlan Murdoch, as expected, was named chief executive and chairman of his family's shrinking television conglomerate.
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In a taut pitchers' duel between Steven Matz and Stephen Strasburg, a matchup of division rivals that devolved into a battle of bullpen misdoings, the winning play felt anticlimactic: a sinking walk-off single to end a 3-2 Mets loss that elicited a range of emotions, perhaps confusion most of all.
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The Tuesday morning announcement — anticlimactic, for sure, after press reports over the last week detailed the company's intentions — will let down those who were hoping Amazon might deviate from its DNA and take on a city that could use an economic boost and job growth — say, a Newark, N.J., or a Pittsburgh, Penn.
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For no reason other than the fact that it would be anticlimactic and boring to have her die in the caves due to the apocalypse, we'd guess she's headed to either 1987, where she may or may not be able to see her son, or to 1954, where she can once again spar with Hannah.
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And so, with an anticlimactic awards ceremony and a round of applause and tears, we welcome our former student athletes and artists into the real world, where art and sport beckon alluringly in other people's Instagram feeds, but leisure itself — the act of engaging in something merely because we enjoy it — is not much valued.
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Investors can lose interest, management teams can lose momentum and the offering can become anticlimactic, said Karim Anani, IPO west region leader for consulting firm EY. To be sure, the U.S. stock market could stabilize and recover – it rallied on Friday - and a rebound in technology stock prices would increase the appeal of an IPO for companies like Nutanix.
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Four points later, after Djokovic held serve at love, this rather anticlimactic semifinal was over, and not long after that, Lüthi was in a corridor in Laver Arena, making a tiny space with his right thumb and right index finger to show the difference between that critical Djokovic passing shot being an error or a net-cord winner.
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After my brother's courageous letter, I knew mine would be anticlimactic, not only because my brother's came first, but also because I was one of four daughters, and in our family, especially from my father's point of view, nothing about being a daughter appeared to have the same import as it would have from a son.
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Why Thanos' Third Snap Doesn't Work: Thanks to a last-minute save from Captain Marvel with help from literally every single female Marvel hero from the past 11 years (ahhhh the girl power!), Tony had the head start he needed to take all the Infinity Stones off of the Gauntlet and put them on his own Iron Man suit glove, so Thanos' third snap did nothing but make a really anticlimactic snapping noise.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's deadline for Congress to craft a deal for so-called Dreamers came and went Monday, and its anticlimactic passage is a clear indication that any legislative action on immigration is unlikely before November's elections.
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