Longinus's warning against bathos is a dangerous one for those who would take it too much to heart. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag. From Wordnik.com. [Home Alone] Reference
The answer is somewhere between bathos and pathos. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Humour is often to be found in tragedy and bathos. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Majority To Left Of Democrats On Iraq] Reference
Such grotesque bathos shows a sad lack of judgement. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The evening was saved from bathos by the news that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
It would be unfair to blame all the bathos on the British. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of The Tear] Reference
One could do something with it; there was no bathos, at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
So now we have a false dichotomy, a mixed metaphor, and bathos. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He would say, do not descent into bathos, or pathos, either one. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2005] Reference
In a word, both Hillary and Celine can be summarized thusly: bathos. From Wordnik.com. [It's Official: Hillary's Campaign Song Is Celine Dion's "You And I"] Reference
What about the bathos of Tu Kung-pu; and the unadorned refinement of Wei. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
It was an anti-climax, a bathos, of which St. Augustine is seldom guilty. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
If this will not satisfy, let us say, with the same apostle, O bathos, Rom. xi. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Does Xenophon feel the bathos of this, or is hdg. wrong and there is no bathos?. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
What about the bathos of Tu Kung-pu; and the unadorned refinement of Wei Su-chou?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Still, Letts is an insightful writer, sensitive to the bathos behind the bluster. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Superior Donuts, The Understudy, Vamps] Reference
And the song called "The Final Song," while touching, teeters too far into bathos. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!] Reference
Popular Portrayals In popular portrayals, the paralyzed are often bathed in bathos. From Wordnik.com. [A Movie Stokes My Memories] Reference
"Hello, Sting," they reply in unison, resigned to the comic bathos of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
The effect stops short of bathos every time because the decisions are so well judged. From Wordnik.com. [Jannis Kounellis] Reference
That's an added fillip of bathos that, from her ultra-privileged perch, simply doesn't fly. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Whitman and Fiorina's Big Primary Wins Carry Seeds of Self-Destruction] Reference
Laughter is essential when you read belated Bloom – without it, you would drown in bathos. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly] Reference
There may be a still deeper descent; but that is bathos sufficient for any lover of his species. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
As Orwin says, and as daytime television talk shows demonstrate, the line between pathos and bathos is thin. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Moisture] Reference
The plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
Soft to the point of squishiness, "" Phenomenon '' is rescued from terminal bathos by Travolta's radiant conviction. From Wordnik.com. [When A Regular Joe Turns Into A Genius] Reference
The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the prose, John Updike's great strength for almost 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?] Reference
I can see at least one flaw in the logic of your analogy (as opposed to the flaw in rhetoric in your descent into bathos). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
There is bathos, after these claims, in the concern some poets show over the question of priority between themselves and kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
But the boring, lugubrious hit parade of nauseating pop songs just drags on and on, droning into a threatened eternity of bathos. From Wordnik.com. [Mamma Meryl! ABBA-thon Even Defeats Streep] Reference
The in-car conversation reaches the heights of bathos in the Fishponds area of Bristol, where Balls is once again given his orders. From Wordnik.com. [Labour leadership: The contenders] Reference
Everything tending to bathos -- whether for the cause, or against it -- caught its quick rebuke, at the hands of some glib funmaker. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
What might have drowned in sentimental bathos literally shimmers with confrontation, growth and redemption in a film rooted in truth. From Wordnik.com. [My Dog Skip : Cute Civil Rights Doggie] Reference
Descend we therefore from the head and trunk of man -- a curious bathos -- to his understandings and unmentionables; you know what we mean. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
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