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ba·thos [ˈbæθɒs, Am -θɑ:s] N no pl liter

bathos
bathos
Bathos nt spec
bathos
Antiklimax f spec

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English
When he tries to mix it up as an over-the-top rock shouter, the entire enterprise descends into bathos and boredom.
edmontonjournal.com
These skillfully presented touches convey all that needs to be said without pretense or bathos.
www.popmatters.com
The bathos of the scene practically cruises for ridicule.
www.newyorker.com
A bathos battle played out between the impulses of his left and right brain further underlines the disorientation.
www.independent.co.uk
Even when representing weakness and suffering, he knew how to maintain the correct tone, without bathos.
en.wikipedia.org
But elsewhere it sinks into bathos and worse, with too many extras standing about in blocked positions and several basic theatrical miscalculations.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Because there is no money for grands projets, he says, there is a kind of bathos in the compulsion to legislate in ever-finer detail.
www.ft.com
He does not like to lose a day to bathos and pathos.
www.theglobeandmail.com
Charlie, the wallflower of the title, goes through a veritable bath of bathos in his 10th grade year, 1991.
collider.com
Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story.
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