bathos Sentence Examples
- The movie's sudden shift from tragedy to slapstick comedy created a jarring bathos.
- The speech began with soaring rhetoric but descended into a bathos of trivial anecdotes.
- The novel's ending, with its forced happy ending, was a bathos that undermined the preceding tragedy.
- The dinner party's somber atmosphere was shattered by a guest's unexpected outburst of laughter, creating a bathos.
- The heroic tale of the soldier's sacrifice was weakened by a bathos focused on his clumsy attempts at romance.
- The author's attempt to evoke pathos in the reader was undermined by a bathos that reduced the characters to caricatures.
- The bathos of the scene was compounded by the soundtrack's cheerful melody, which played in stark contrast to the emotional turmoil on screen.
- The once-respected professor delivered a lecture that was full of bathos, reducing complex theories to simplistic platitudes.
- The bathos of the situation was unbearable as the grieving family laughed hysterically at a joke that was meant to provide comfort.
- The play's final act was a bathos that made the audience question the playwright's intention and the overall meaning of the work.
bathos Meaning
bathos (n)
triteness or triviality of style
insincere pathos
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
bathos (n.)
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Synonyms & Antonyms of bathos
FAQs About the word bathos
triteness or triviality of style, insincere pathos, a change from a serious subject to a disappointing oneA ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in w
sentimentalism,sentimentality,mawkishness, mushiness, saccharinity, sentiment, sirup, soppiness, sappiness, syrup
cynicism, cynicism, hard-heartedness, hard-heartedness,hardheadedness, hardheadedness,
The movie's sudden shift from tragedy to slapstick comedy created a jarring bathos.
The speech began with soaring rhetoric but descended into a bathos of trivial anecdotes.
The novel's ending, with its forced happy ending, was a bathos that undermined the preceding tragedy.
The dinner party's somber atmosphere was shattered by a guest's unexpected outburst of laughter, creating a bathos.
