Voorbeelden van bathos

• He resolved to build a play not on pathos, but on bathos. 

• Life is full of bathos as well as pathos. 

• The closing words of the speech approached dangerously near to bathos. 

• The plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories. 

• This is bathos that unfortunately goes too far. 

• Ordinarily, such sequences produce only bathos when their final terms are so incongruously weighty (and, as in the case of "sacrilege," imperfectly rhymed).

• There is bathos in the movement of language to the moralism of capitalist 'evils'.

• What is more, they were accomplished manipulators of pathos and bathos.

• To take on a service after the war, when there is a sort of bathos, a sort of backwash, is difficult.

• I refer to dogs on allotments—possibly a bathos after what we have been discussing.

• I knew there was a touch of bathos at the end.

• Let us take his complaint, expressed in very strong language, and with a good deal of bathos, which seemed to me rather inappropriate to the situation.

• Then, in the end, all was bathos.

• The result, of course, is bathos.

• It really was the most terrible bathos, when we think of the magnitude of this problem, to be told that we are to have a half-time controller-designate.

• Self-referential humor expressed discreetly and surrealistically is a form of bathos.

• Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story.

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

• The contrast between reality, delusion, and self-delusion was a form of bathos that made the audience think of other grand-speaking and grandly spoken of people.

• Even when representing weakness and suffering, he knew how to maintain the correct tone, without bathos.