bathos

• I suppose it's worth mentioning that for YEARS I had and wore a t-shirt that said "I never should have used the word bathos", huh?
• Pope's bathos, in his lines to Murray Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, at the House of Lords was happily parodied by Browne Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks, And he has chambers in the King's Bench Walks Pattison's Satires of Pope , pp. 57, 134. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• They stomped and tore and wracked me Ripping all the pathos, bathos, cathos right out of All that I was, am, and will be. —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
• I think the correct term is "bathos" - an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. —  politicalbetting.com
• It began You can never win them back Never, never And you'd better leave the track Now forever Tho' you 'cut' and 'deal the pack And 'copper' every Jack You'll lose 'stack' after 'stack Forever Everything tending to bathos--whether for the cause, or against it--caught its quick rebuke, at the hands of some glib funmaker. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

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