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Bathos

noun

Triteness or triviality of style.

Insincere pathos. Synonym: mawkishness.

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one. Synonym: anticlimax.

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"Bathos" Quotes from Famous Books

... is plausible; but I do not find it adequate. The first objection is that the same smell of bathos haunts the soul in the case of all deliberate and elaborate visits to "beauty spots," even by persons of the most elegant position or the most protected privacy. Specially visiting the Coliseum by moonlight ...

— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton

... Professor Nangle's Index shows, was less favorable. "There is great variety in the numbers of this ode; but, in our opinion, they are not combined in such a manner as to produce a natural or agreeable harmony. There is sometimes, too, a falling off, not far removed from the Bathos. Thus, when the ...

— A Pindarick Ode on Painting - Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. • Thomas Morrison

... tragedy or for comedy: the characters and situations handled by the sentimentalist might perchance furnish comedy with a theme; but he stilts them for a tragic performance, and they tumble into watery bathos, where ...

— Style • Walter Raleigh

Words linked to "Bathos" : style, sentimentality, story, close, ending, conclusion, end, closing, expressive style