Bathos in a sentence 🔊

Definition of Bathos

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. | (now uncommon) Depth. | (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

Short Example Sentence for Bathos

  • 1. The answer is somewhere between bathos and pathos. 🔊
  • 2. And it had sounded like bathos or sacrilege. 🔊
  • 3. That's the true bathos to have done with them. 🔊

How to use Bathos in Sentence?

  • 1. There may be a still deeper descent; but that is bathos sufficient for any lover of his species. 🔊
  • 2. But the actual descriptions of the process in the Reimerdes case smack more of bathos than terror. 🔊
  • 3. For that brief flash the reporter had been lifted out of his bathos and tawdriness into a clearer element. 🔊
  • 4. Two gentlemen who had all but reached the smug bathos of a mutual admiration society turned astonished eyes at the intruder. 🔊