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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021

The rest of the movie wallows in that disgust, seeming to relish the bathos of its own protagonist’s abjection and isolation.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019

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

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood