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

There is sometimes, too, a falling off, not far removed from the Bathos.

From A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Hilles, Frederick Whiley

In the tail-piece to his works, which he prepared a few months before his death, and which he called The Bathos, or Manner of Sinking in Sublime Paintings, the end of everything is represented.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer

Hervey had already been attacked in the Dunciad and the Bathos, and he now retaliated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various