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bathos::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mawkishness |
| Type of | sentimentality |
bathos::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | anticlimax |
| Type of | close, closing, conclusion, end, ending |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | expressive style, style |
Examples of bathos
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The consolation prize, if any, for this maudlin bundle of bathos is Sandy Dennis.
From the time.com
Onstage it seems to inspire polemic frenzy, puerile logic and sob-opera bathos.
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One can admire the wish to avoid gravitas without endorsing a fall into bathos.
From the washingtonpost.com
Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos.
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Amid the pathos and bathos, it's time to take a knee and conduct a map check.
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The physical humor, the exaggerated mugging, the wild shifts from comedy to bathos.
From the timesunion.com
Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece.
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Yglesias, full of feeling but void of bathos, never pronounces cancer a gift.
From the nytimes.com
The title track, meanwhile, is about accepting life's surfeit of pathos and bathos.
From the independent.co.uk
- Triteness or triviality of style
- Mawkishness: insincere pathos
- Anticlimax: a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
- Bathos (Greek , meaning depth), strictly speaking, refers to the discovery or expression of humor in a linguistic phrase through some ironic combination of ideas, whether done deliberately through the use of an incongruous combination of ideas in order to provide a seemingly unintended humorous ...
- Aarni has been described as an avant-garde metal band from Finland, which consists primarily of Master Warjomaa and, occasionally, some session musicians. ...
- An unintentional shift from the sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of overly elevated language to describe trivial subject matter, or from an exaggerated attempt at pathos which misfires to the point of being ludicrous. Bathos can be viewed as an unintentional anticlimax.
- Alexander Pope's Peri-Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728) describes bathos as a poet's fall, in a work of some seriousness, into an unintentionally comic pathos.
- (from the Greek for depth) Means that you seem to be saying something very profound but then proceed to a ludicrous anticlimax. it may be intentional, for comic effect, or unintentional. ...
- When a writer who is intending to be pathetic, exceeds a limit and descends into the ridiculous.
