0 a sudden change from a beautiful or important subject to a silly or very ordinary one, especially when this is not intended --
Even when representing weakness and suffering, he knew how to maintain the correct tone, without 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.
The dispute flared up again, to end on a note of bathos.
Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story.
Self-referential humor expressed discreetly and surrealistically is a form of 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.
The result, of course, is bathos.
Then, in the end, all was bathos.
