bathos

Example Sentences

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Bathos hovers throughout, not least when what looks like a thurible is reverently lowered from the roof – and turns out to be a lampshade.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

As evidenced by the stampede of undistinguished candidates for mayor, San Francisco is in danger of becoming Bathos by the Bay.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only parts of any moment that were written of this intended series, were Pope’s Treatise of the Bathos, or Art of Sinking in Poetry, and his Memoirs of P. P.,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Bathos, truly; but Mr. Toomey sat down at the side of Miss Purdy, millinery, and their hands came together in sympathy.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.

"Bathos attends all high words," he said, as she paused, chiefly to see whether he was awake, and not like her dumb playfellow of old.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary