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bathos (en)

(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"

The Baffler #44 - Truth Decay
by The Baffler (editor)

The Baffler #44 - Truth Decay
by The Baffler (editor)

The Baffler #44 - Truth Decay
by The Baffler (editor)


The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January

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