Example sentences for: bathos

How can you use “bathos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I do not, however, allow the sublimity or bathos of a setting to blind me to the attributes of its kitchen.

  • Only the threat of, say, an alien abduction could make a man watch all the way through this domestic bathos.

  • But his vision cuts deeper than a lot of folky bathos.

  • True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.

  • 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.


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