bathos

Example Sentences

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After justice prevailed onstage and a song of patriotic bathos filled the air, “everyone was weeping,” she reports.

From Washington Post

Sentimental and a little corny in parts, “Percy” is protected from bathos by Walken’s proudly minimalist performance as an intensely private man reluctantly drawn into an uncomfortably public fight.

From New York Times

After all that, it is hard not to feel that there might be some sort of bathos in ending the season as “only” — sorry, Virgil — champion of England.

From New York Times

One of our smartest, most inventive humor writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation.

From New York Times

He really went for the bathos and pathos by surprising a military wife with her husband who had been deployed overseas.

From Salon