Bathos in a sentence as a noun

He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.

"pathetic" is literal, and used in the same sense that the parent used it; it connotes that their comment evokes pathos, and lacks ethos, logos, or bathos.

There are lots of techniques that work in terms of getting readers' attention, but ultimately end up shortchanging them - bathos, hyperbole, burying the lede, and so on.

If by beautifully written, you mean incredibly ham-handed and melodramatic and full of bathos:> Roger Ebert can’t remember the last thing he ate.

For example, the player character's interactions with Azmodan and Belial definitely veer into bathos territory.

But suffice to say your "top engineer" commenting on stuff outside his specialty and using the stupidity of undergrads to bolster his amateur argument is not convincing and is a pure expression of bathos.

Bathos definitions

noun

triteness or triviality of style

noun

insincere pathos

See also: mawkishness

noun

a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

See also: anticlimax