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

Open Roads, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden take on the emotional depths of family life in ways that shred the heartstrings — mostly without slipping into bathos.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

It is what Alexander Pope would call bathos.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

If that doesn’t work, they can always fall back on tear-jerking bathos and sentimental clichés.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021

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

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood