bathos

Example Sentences

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To give credit where it’s due, few films wear their bathos with such pride.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Yet even as Winocour piles on too many complications, she retains an appreciable astringency — call it a sense of emotional realism about what it means to actually survive — that keeps bathos at bay.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

It is what Alexander Pope would call bathos.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

But it also lapsed into bathos at times, in galleries about the events of Sept. 11, 2001, or a shrine to journalists killed while on duty.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood