bathos
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Stylistically, “Paper Tiger” only goes overboard once with a rainstorm that shows up out of nowhere for bathos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
To give credit where it’s due, few films wear their bathos with such pride.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
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
Those American variations and especially their later descendants, like Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot L Baltimore,” often teetered on the brink of both melodramatic bathos and quippy sitcom humor, in which everybody’s armed with zingers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing bathos
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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