By many years George Sand outlived her charm, dying in 1876 at the age of seventy-two, her grandchildren about her-a smugly proper, if sadly anticlimactic, ending to a career in which anticlimax had been almost as infrequent as propriety.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
After that, the mushroom cloud is anticlimactic.
"Sympathetic Magic"
Paul Cameron Brown
It was in the anticlimactic moment, following the possession ceremony, when men milled around in uncertainty, that Lt.
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