bathos

How To Use bathos In A Sentence

• This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity The Pontiff Is In...
• Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both. TESTIMONIES
• The narrative that emerged from the cobwebs was a remarkably coherent one, a detailed panorama of Victorian and Edwardian family life, full of humour and bathos as well as drama, passion and tragedy. Hancox: All under one roof
• After a time one rumbles his technique: a big emotional set-to, followed by pure bathos like Eleanor's "Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs? The Lion in Winter - review
• The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
• The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit. Racing Against Reality
• To Swan's credit, she deftly skirts sentimentality; there is plenty of sentiment, but no bathos.
• Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag. Home Alone
• 'Frisco Kid's Story" (Aegis, 15 February 1895) is mawkish and sentimental, a lesson in bathos and in how not to handle dialect (that is, by employing an abundance of it). The woe of an aspiring genius.
• Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both. TESTIMONIES