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Example sentences for: bathos

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I do not, however, allow the sublimity or bathos of a setting to blind me to the attributes of its kitchen.
The bathos of this sentence and the placement of the story--a lead nobody else but the WSJ even has on the front page--is a reminder of the penchant the Times has for overplaying money.
As the younger daughter, the dark eyed, spaghetti thin Claire Forlani has to carry the picture's bathos on her exquisite shoulders.
The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.
There are brilliant moments--a flickering, black-and-white dream, in which they're separate and riding bicycles, is like a gorgeous home movie from the '20s unearthed from someone's basement--but the mixture of Diane Arbus freakiness and heart-tugging bathos finally feels a little cheap.