bathos

One could do something with it; there was no bathos, at least.

The movie is almost chilly, as it must be to avoid bathos.

It would have been bathos, but his attempts were too heartfelt.

I admit that what his first men found in the Moon was a bathos after the journey.

The dispute flared up again, to end on a note of bathos.

If there's anything that makes me fall about more than a pratfall it is bathos.

When imagination fails, the result is often bathos and slack writing.

The vaudevillian bathos to the moment still has Republicans rolling their eyes.

My parents still have a postcard from that period, and the bathos all but drips off the page.

There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos.

If this is my last word on the subject, I'm sorry it has to be so close to bathos, but that's how I feel.

Intolerable bathos and prose in a passage of such tension.

In the process, she flirts dangerously with caricature and bathos.

What are we to make, too, of Rutherford's gift for hyperbole and bathos?

Only the threat of, say, an alien abduction could make a man watch all the way through this domestic bathos.

Bunny rabbits aside, Nash comes across as rather serious, with a nice line in bathos.

While often unintended, bathos may be used deliberately to produce a humorous effect.

But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.

The world knows by this time that creation is an empty jest; we are all beginning to understand its bathos!

A more appropriate critical term would be bathos.

To write with passion - but without bathos - about people who mourn is a formidable task.

The bathos is all mockery, however, and the more epic the track becomes the better the jokes get.

I particularly enjoyed the pathos (or should that be bathos?)

The third matter, the coaching, presents an immediate dilemma with an undertone of bathos.

Along with the bathos and bombast, the stone contains some clues to the family's social aspirations.