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Meanings of bathos in English

Spanish
sensiblería

Insincere pathos.

        sensiblería
        Portuguese
        anticlímax

        A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.

              anticlímax
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              Examples for "anticlimax"
              Examples for "anticlimax"
              1
              A numbing sense of anticlimax had inevitably pursued them north from Moscow.
              The Guardian
              2
              Presently the others made their entrance upon the scene, a singular anticlimax.
              A Splendid Hazard
              3
              I suppose seeing the real me was a bit of an anticlimax.
              Winter door
              4
              Anything, the management had decided, would be an anticlimax after Rita Rolls.
              The Human Factor
              5
              But in the end it turned out to be a total anticlimax.
              News.com.au
              Usage of bathos in English
              1
              There are moments of great beauty but also moments of great bathos.
              The Guardian
              2
              The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry.
              Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 / Germany, Austria-H...
              3
              His leaving was regrettably messy, prolonged and inevitable and coated in bathos.
              The Irish Times
              4
              Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful.
              The Charm of Oxford
              5
              The bathos of this visit roused an acid fury in Hilary.
              Fraternity
              6
              These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos.
              The Guardian
              7
              At least pathos can be balanced by bathos in our wondrously varied world.
              The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
              8
              What would a Dickens Christmas tale be without pathos and bathos?
              Drood: a novel
              9
              One of their favourite blunders is an amazing sort of bathos.
              Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
              10
              And the result of the effort seemed always to be bathos!
              The Hill of Dreams
              11
              The romance of these remarkable espousals was not to find its conclusion in bathos.
              Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
              12
              The bathos of this anti-climax to martyrdom was too grotesque.
              The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
              13
              Does Xenophon feel the bathos of this, or is hdg.
              Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
              14
              Andrea del Sarto sentimentalized the Virgin, turning tenderness to bathos.
              The Age of the Reformation
              15
              Braben's rhythms are the quintessential rhythms of British comedy -the comedy of bathos.
              The Guardian
              16
              What a sample of the bathos will his history present!
              Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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              Translations for bathos
              Portuguese
              anticlímax
              Bathos through the time
              Bathos across language varieties
              United Kingdom
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