How To Use Bathos In A Sentence
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I think the correct term is "bathos" - an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
Politicalbetting.com
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This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The Pontiff Is In...
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I'm slipping into bathos at record speed here tonight; a function of happiness, I suppose.
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Not everything he does works, but Antopolski deliberately uses anticlimax and bathos in his material.
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The leaden bathos, insincere congratulations and lickspittle teasing were all cringingly, mesmerisingly grisly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
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There had been no mad paroxysm of love, with the inevitable bathos.
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But in fact, despite my scientific interest in describing languages as they actually are, I am as free as anyone else to have negative reactions to unintentional bathos or unhelpful confusion caused by bad writing.
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Missing hyphen, misrelated participle, and bathos apart, this sentence founders on the embarrassing misconception of the tone of trendy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Blurb bathos is a killer, because it’s actually really fun and easy to be blurb bathetic in the same way it’s fun and easy to write a bathetic poem.
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If there is pathos in this, there is bathos in his apostrophe to the millipede, beginning "Poor sowbug!" and eulogizing the healing virtues of that odious little beast; of which he tells us to take "half a pound, putt 'em alive into a quart or two of wine," with saffron and other drugs, and take two ounces twice a day.
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Thoroughly unseemly," and those adjectives, so well-worn by an earlier generation of clergymen, added an air of bathos to.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
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The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
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Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both.
TESTIMONIES
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Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos.
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This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The Pontiff Is In...
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Longinus's warning against bathos is a dangerous one for those who would take it too much to heart.
Archive 2010-03-01
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The sheer bathos of their behaviour was so absurd that I began to laugh but of course this made them more nervous than ever.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Next thing you know, they'll be using dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire.
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In less skillful hands, the plot — and there is a good, strong plot — might have foundered in bathos, but Dean adroitly sticks to the high road; although she afflicts her characters with terminal cancer, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and adultery, these trials, rather than defining the people who suffer them, serve to reveal their fiber.
New Fiction
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If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
On the Sublime
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Instead, trapped in the deep, the oil fouls the ocean's twilight and dark zones: the mesopelagic and the bathypelagic (bathos: deep).
MotherJones.com
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Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both.
TESTIMONIES
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'Frisco Kid's Story" (Aegis, 15 February 1895) is mawkish and sentimental, a lesson in bathos and in how not to handle dialect (that is, by employing an abundance of it).
The woe of an aspiring genius.
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Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag.
Home Alone
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To Swan's credit, she deftly skirts sentimentality; there is plenty of sentiment, but no bathos.
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The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit.
Racing Against Reality
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The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
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After a time one rumbles his technique: a big emotional set-to, followed by pure bathos like Eleanor's "Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?
The Lion in Winter - review
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The narrative that emerged from the cobwebs was a remarkably coherent one, a detailed panorama of Victorian and Edwardian family life, full of humour and bathos as well as drama, passion and tragedy.
Hancox: All under one roof
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Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both.
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