Definition of “bathos”

All had ended well but it had been seven days of drama, of pathos -- and bathos.

Director Hickenlooper's approach to the banality and bathos of Bingenheimer's world is alternately tender and cruel.

His vandalism of her self-esteem worked well, but his attempt to beat up on Graham backfires into bathos.

Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both.

The sheer bathos of their behaviour was so absurd that I began to laugh but of course this made them more nervous than ever.

Thoroughly unseemly," and those adjectives, so well-worn by an earlier generation of clergymen, added an air of bathos to.

Through a combination of graphic violence and comic bathos , McDonagh pushes his satire to cartoonish extremes.

Vicky absolutely refused, on the grounds that we couldn't afford bathos in our only straightforward heterosexual scene.