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Meanings of bathos in inglés

español
sensiblería

Insincere pathos.

sensiblería
portugués
anticlímax

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.

anticlímax
Usage of bathos in inglés
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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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portugués
anticlímax
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