(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
Also vague and kind of bathetic is the novel's depiction of actual mathematical work
his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful
The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the line-by-line prose, Updike’s great strength for almost forty years.
Madame Grandet had no completed the woollen sleeves she was knitting, and that for want of them she caught a chill. He is never afraid of bathos.
concluding in bathos
And after a bathetic sojourn on Ellis Island, Timofey and Liza parted
The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January
whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion
the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures
What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it
his frames of reference zigzag wildly from bathos to profundity
on DFW
which even in the late 1930s when Césaire was composing his poem in Paris carried a folksy and bathetic ring that is only dimly captured in the English
Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies
Somehow the result of this trick is not bathos but profundity; we see that the story means something more than we thought it might.
The horror has passed, and what remains is the slow, lingering bathos as people shuffle into the future.
Bathos flutters over this later novel like a pennant: tragedy has been abolished.
Yes, a majority of Democratic senators voted to invade Iraq, later indulging in bathetic recantations as they transferred their animus to Russia
ugh i love it