| 单词 | bathos |
| 例句 | Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Opera Feroce’s witty staging mixed pathos and bathos, using 28 solo and ensemble pieces by English, German and Italian composers to illustrate the myth of the mortal Psyche’s romance with Cupid. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z Those American variations and especially their later descendants, like Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot L Baltimore,” often teetered on the brink of both melodramatic bathos and quippy sitcom humor, in which everybody’s armed with zingers. ‘Halfway Bitches’ Review: A Play as Unruly as Life Itself 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Much of Moore’s appeal rests in bathos: his gods are fallen, at once numinous and mundane. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Well, I’m making a point about genre-pushing bathos etched in a religious key, and about Ortberg as a lapidarist of gender transition. The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Sentimental and a little corny in parts, “Percy” is protected from bathos by Walken’s proudly minimalist performance as an intensely private man reluctantly drawn into an uncomfortably public fight. ‘Percy vs Goliath’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Snouffer’s bathos in “Glitter and Be Gay” took things a shade too far, but her Mozartian trills of a caged bird hit all the right notes. Wait, wait ... It’s opera at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z With the bumpy juxtaposition of ancient and modern, which doesn't always illuminate, though Buffini does daringly use it for some joshing bathos. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z To me this one looks far closer to the gathering dread of Requiem for a Dream than The Wrestler's classy bathos, or – God forbid – The Fountain's grandiose silliness. In which direction is Black Swan flying? 2010-08-18T16:10:00Z A German saxophonist with a history of Stateside collaboration, Mr. Brötzmann is famous — insofar as any European free-jazz musician can be famous — for a hardheaded, fulminating style devoid of any trace of bathos. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z His exchanges with Mr. Byrd, so liable to lapse into bathos, are salvaged by the actors’ palpable rapport. | 'Norman': Jonathan Segal?s ?Norman? ? Review 2011-10-21T02:30:11Z That confrontational story thread is unfortunately overplayed in the third act, when bathos undercuts “Rites” just as it reaches the sacramental altered-state-of-consciousness Mitchell seeks. Saint Genet show ‘Rites’ goes to extremes | Performance review 2013-05-18T21:57:04Z Barker's characters are as driven and obsessive as ever, but the mystery of their motivations is replaced by bathos: what enrages them here are recycling bins. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z The show began with a group rendition of that apogee of bathos "We Are The World" and a probably inevitable version of "My Way" occurred not long thereafter. Karaoke champs vie for fame, dumplings in Russia 2010-09-23T19:47:00Z This is the one moment of empty bathos. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Hers really is an exceptional performance for a youngster, skirting the perils of bathos in her tender scenes and playing her rebellious ones with comic impertinence.” Edith Fellows, a 1930s Child Star Trailed by Dickensian Woes, Dies at 88 2011-07-03T00:58:59Z Characters heave musical confession after musical confession at the audience, content to bathe us in their bathos even as they ignore the show’s flimsy and often inconsistent logic. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’ 2013-07-24T16:21:19Z The bromance genre requires stand-alone skills if it’s not to collapse into bathos. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z And so another fine instance of British bathos bites the dust. Pass notes No 2,870: Wallace & Gromit 2010-10-26T18:59:00Z Lift-off is poetic, the inevitable return to Earth prosaic: Holmes dodges throughout between sublimity and a rueful, comical bathos. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z Once or twice the language lapses into bathos: you feel Victor's bride might come up with something less prim than "We'll have none of that" when the Creature paws her breast. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z One of our smartest, most inventive humor writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation. The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z How much is lost when you quite so resolutely eliminate bathos, chaos, humour and the rough edge? Richard Alston Dance Company – review 2012-10-06T23:05:55Z And there are several moments of such bathos — from the ridiculous Prologue to the final leaps into the lake. Review: Two True Artists, One Dramatically Limp ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A scene late in the film in which Jeff begs not to be abandoned is played at such a high pitch that it flirts with, then transcends, bathos. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Stronger’ Loses His Legs in the Boston Bombing 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As the Lady of the Lake, Merle Dandridge, another dab theatrical hand, parodied Broadway bathos with powerhouse vocals that could turn unexpectedly guttural in "The Song That Goes Like This" and "The Diva's Lament." 'Spamalot' a summer treat at Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Beginning on a note of bathos, our unnamed 25-year-old antihero starts off his day with a blunt needle, “but I hit a vein, no problem, . . . It’s going to be a lucky day.” Review | The best audiobooks to listen to this month 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The idea of Broadway — the crowds, the cost, the bathos — was an affront to my community theater sensibilities. Never seen a play on Broadway? How a first-timer played the odds and scored cheap tickets. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The TV show has a rueful subtext undercutting its otherwise peppy tone, but Lathrop doesn't quite have the same ear for bathos or the contradictory impulses that make humans so complex. Sex for sale and the cliches abound in 'Bordello' 2011-02-08T00:30:00Z Everett is not only a good raconteur, he has musicality – he knows how and precisely when to turn elegy to jazz with a roguish blue-note of bathos. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2012-10-05T21:54:01Z "I was very frigid as a teenager," said Jess – now 18 and a beguiling mixture of bathos and chirpy innocence – regarding her 15-year-old self. TV review: The Girl Who Became Three Boys; Lost Children 2012-08-07T22:05:01Z Despite that and a banal theatrical reliance on bathos, more than a little of Glass’ larger-than-life Disney emerges. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s directors, the brothers Daniel and Diego Vega, walking the line between pathos and bathos, come perilously close to cute but pull off an emotional coup with humor. Critic?s Notebook: Awkward Embraces, Assured Directors 2011-03-27T21:52:50Z And they are just the latest in Brit bathos: 2011's Attack the Block took the alien-invasion spectacular down to a council estate and "kicked its head in". The World's End is the latest standard-bearer for British bathos 2013-07-17T16:27:53Z But I'm not sure the BBC, who have commissioned our film, are really looking for a discreet study in bathos. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z Its shocking originality and deeply Korean style of cinematography, the dialogue that's a mix of pathos/bathos/humor only made me feel prouder to be Korean. The "Squid Game" critique is also a love letter to a unified Korea 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The bathos of the latter tends to casts an absurd light on the former. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But Mr. Joseph does not have the control over tone that is the hallmark of those models: His comedy wilts rather than blossoms in proximity to his tragedy, and his tragedy droops into bathos. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But as their films get more expensive, and their own careers more entwined with Hollywood, Pegg and Wright might find their bathos antennae harder to tune in properly. The World's End is the latest standard-bearer for British bathos 2013-07-17T16:27:53Z “A Small Fire,” at less than 90 minutes, retains a crisp economy and a precise focus on Emily’s strange affliction, and never descends into bathos. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z But genuine pathos still outweighs bathos en route to enlightenment and romantic satisfaction. Music Review | 'Partenope': Gender-Bending ?Partenope? at City Opera 2010-04-04T22:12:00Z It recycles clichés about the Midwestern work ethic and the temptations of Hollywood life, and stoops to predictable bathos when the subject turns to Mr. Johnson’s H.I.V. diagnosis. Television Review | 'Magic & Bird': Still Going One on One and Giving No Ground 2010-03-05T23:35:00Z Without sliding into confessional bathos, his voice was always personal and frank, creating in the reader a feeling of complicity, of shared knowledge and knowing humor. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He is so in control of his material – the unexpected inflection; the telling silences; the gentle ebb and flow of bathos and high farce – that we hang on his every unamplified word. Mike Birbiglia ? review 2012-05-17T17:10:09Z Some of the family scenes are touching, but it's full of bathos, too – see a baffling scene involving a giant false nose. TV highlights 29/05/2012 2012-05-28T18:59:01Z After justice prevailed onstage and a song of patriotic bathos filled the air, “everyone was weeping,” she reports. Review | Raised in a cult, Lauren Hough’s salvation was the discovery of her own inimitable voice 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z I didn’t know whether it would be full of pathos, bathos or cray-hos, so I did an “Empire” marathon. Lonnae O’Neal: Want to hear what blacks say when whites aren’t around? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “In three minutes,” he writes in his memoir, she “would run on stage as a cat caught in a car headlight and instigate one of the great moments of bathos in theatre history.” The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Despite these precedents, the memorial reconfigures old elements in a distinctly new way, and it avoids both the slick and generic symbolism and the Hollywood bathos of many recent American memorials. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The movie so deftly mixes sentimentality, romance and bathos in just the right measures that her fans and maybe new ones will enjoy the new Miley. Miley Cyrus all grown up in new movie 2010-03-31T02:33:00Z But if the Conchords concept is looking shaky, the songs are solid as ever: masterpieces of bathos that unite earnest musicianship with pedantic and gloriously banal sentiment. Flight of the Conchords 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z Braben's rhythms are the quintessential rhythms of British comedy – the comedy of bathos. Eddie Braben was Morecambe and Wise's secret weapon 2013-05-21T14:06:44Z Likewise in Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo,” Bringuier brought fire and a lyrical bent that moved along without bathos. Bringuier does Shakespeare; a young cellist impresses 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The bathos of the scene practically cruises for ridicule. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The dilemmas of adoption – and what it might mean to track down your "true" parents are dealt with thoughtfully and there are a few moments of pathos in the book alongside all that bathos. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z Next week's After Hollywood will look at English cinema's USP: bathos. Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime West 2013-07-10T13:23:35Z And by way of real bathos, Hunter devotes a little too much attention to what happens in what Americans call the bathroom. Ian Hunter's diary of Mott the Hoople 2010-06-25T22:59:00Z Shot in Utica, N.Y., and boasting locations that set a high bar for starkness, “Clean” has some real craft, but doesn’t quite satisfy as it toggles between bloodbaths and bathos. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet even as Winocour piles on too many complications, she retains an appreciable astringency — call it a sense of emotional realism about what it means to actually survive — that keeps bathos at bay. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z That show couldn’t help but draw out both the power and weakness of his work: his daring reimagination of old themes and provocative use of gritty realism, but also his sentimentality and bathos. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Related: Golden Globes 2016: 10 things we learned Finally, and on a note of unavoidable bathos, the foreign language prize. Golden Globes 2016: just rewards for The Revenant – and an incredible coup for The Martian 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Reviewing it in the Observer, Elizabeth Day praised the way Frayn "evokes emotion without ever lapsing into bathos, threading sentences through with a gentle, touching humour". Michael Frayn's memoir of his father wins autobiography prize 2011-07-22T09:30:52Z This always courts bathos; each time, however, it achieves a successfully eloquent image. Dance Review: ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,’ by the Washington Ballet 2013-05-12T22:15:22Z I loved the revelatory interplay of banjo and trombone, lending the song some jug-band bathos. Radiohead's Colin Greenwood reviews Guardian covers band Radio Eds 2011-03-31T15:51:18Z The grid — a modernist pictorial device that she deploys with postmodernist bathos — is rendered in wonky, spray-painted lines or a loose pink and brown checkerboard. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But I don’t really agree, Roberta, that Shostakovich descends into bathos. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z On his visit to the Great Wall, he had observed, in a moment of stunning bathos, “This is a great wall.” Politics and food: President Nixon in China, February 1972 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The foremost risk in such a setup is bathos: the poor kid! Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z But it also lapsed into bathos at times, in galleries about the events of Sept. 11, 2001, or a shrine to journalists killed while on duty. Perspective | The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures struggles to keep its ego in check — like the ill-fated Newseum before it 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z If that doesn’t work, they can always fall back on tear-jerking bathos and sentimental clichés. Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ is a personal but muted story of childhood’s end 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Bill, as in real life, was butting in with bathos when the moment belonged to Hillary. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The lyrics are as incisive as always, hilarious, and filled with bathos and joy. Suede, Earl Sweatshirt and the Lovely Eggs: readers on their albums of 2018 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Magically, the moment somehow avoids bathos — the tear feels truly earned. Lady Gaga Isn’t Done Shape-Shifting Yet 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z In a moment of bathos, he puts Kerry on the line. Robert Kennedy's daughter on his death, Donald Trump and America's future 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z As well as experiencing grief for “the things you could have done but never did and never will”, midlife means living with irreparable mistakes and the bathos of achievement. The consolations of philosophy for the middle-aged 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “Darling, you must understand that their sense of humour and their lifestyle are different …” The bathos is superb. The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Two semi-finalists in the past five years is an embarrassing note of bathos given the tone of imperialist bombast, the relentless self-congratulation. Sacks of cash, sound and light but how about a real Premier League title race? | Barney Ronay 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Pope’s sarcastic rules to achieving bathos in poetry were a clear attack on the aesthetic and moral climate of his time. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Behind the pulverising bass and the gunshot sound effects, there lurks a very British and very funny kind of lyrical bathos. Glastonbury 2016 verdict: Muse, Adele, Coldplay and more 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s not that the show is revelatory art—a plot about Gordon receiving a diagnosis of brain damage verges on bathos. Silicon Valley’s Dramatic Prehistory 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Frank regards the devastation without bathos or hysteria, his hopes as measured as his sorrows. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country The opening ceremony of the London Olympics on Friday was a tableau of national pride that studiously avoided bathos and easy excesses of patriotism. The Tv Watch: At Olympic Opening Ceremony, Britain Journeys Through Past 2012-07-28T03:44:47Z A better word than “monotony” for this chronic mixing of moods would be “bathos,” which describes the deflation or anticlimax that occurs when two opposing tones or registers clash in a work of art. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z As displays went, it was a pretty robust response to the travelling Timbers Army, who, forewarned that a big display was on its way from their rivals, went for a certain ironic bathos. Portland Timbers' giant tifo throws down gauntlet to Seattle Sounders 2012-06-28T15:02:04Z She might be too self-respecting to dip her pen in bathos, but she was nevertheless young, and her imagination began playing about possibilities like lightning over a wire fence. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z There’s just something about the Titanic that resonates with us on a deep, subconscious level, and it is that element that ultimately raises Cameron’s film above mere Hollywood bathos. Titanic and the Science of Near-Death Experiences 2012-04-07T03:15:00.190Z The first, that in the year 1759, the Italian painters were, in our author's opinion, sunk in the very bathos of insipidity. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z This digital bathos, the deflating consequence of an amoral algorithm, no doubt contributes to our general sense of unease about the social-media project. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z But she did not seem to find bathos in the words. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z To fill the gap there is loads of bathos and bad taste. The TV Watch: In Putin?s Russia, TV Mirrors Longing for Normalcy 2012-02-13T05:52:11Z They mistake impudence for authority, solemnity for wisdom, and bathos for inspiration. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z Nay, as we are told by a chronicler blissfully unconscious of bathos, 'he revoked the prohibition which prevented the family of Lord Orford from attending his levee.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The bathos of the conclusion upset my gravity; I came close to the edge of the pit and looked down. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z Such bathos of indifference would have sounded strange in the days preceding this forenoon. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z And then the sheer contrast seemed to suggest bathos. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z And Lord Hemsworth—oh, bathos of modern life!—looked into his hat. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z When balked by the subtlety of a competitor in trade, by their bathos they contrive to break a match. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z It would be easy enough to indulge in a little sympathetic bathos here. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But his oratory was not of that even kind which, if it never passes beyond a given elevation, never sinks on the other hand into bathos or commonplace. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z This may be bathos in individual cases, yet it is the offspring of truth. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z This is why matches between equals often reduce to wars of nerves and sometimes deteriorate, even at the pro level, into the bathos of double faults and weirdly muffed chances. Straight Sets: On Court 4, Intense Lessons in Competition 2011-08-28T22:13:46Z From sublimest heights I tumbled straight to bathos. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z He is prone to eccentric flights, to bathos and absurdities. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z We shall be landed in a bathos indeed if we allow gross improbability to become a constraining motive with us in revising the sacred Text. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The action seems “wholly dissevered from common sense and ordinary uses;” the figures behave otherwise than humans; the dialogue is “poised on the edge of a precipice of bathos.” Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z There is an element, too, of bathos: These heady matters of democracy and freedom are glimpsed through a filter of fame, money and sex. Letter From Europe: Britain Debates the Bounds of Privacy 2011-04-29T11:50:04Z Another difficulty remains: what a bathos would it be—the original matter of almost any writer—among or after the extracted bits of the book itself. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z A sense of propriety, we will not say of humour, would have prevented such a bathos as this. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Moreover, to conclude on a note of bathos, M. Collas has neglected to append an index to his vast compendium of facts. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The defence coach was left at home and the Welsh challenge went the way of England's, the bathos of the day hardly lifted by the handing over of the silverware in Dublin. No grand slam, but six teams will head south with real hope 2011-03-19T22:27:15Z They are already slaves without masters, and that is the bathos of human misery. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Shelley had none, yet was rescued from bathos by enthusiasm. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I can think of no relevant remark that would not be an absurd bathos. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Once or twice the language lapses into bathos. Frankenstein: reviews round-up 2011-02-24T10:54:58Z What are we doing to save them from the same bathos as this—to which we have come? Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The moment of tension turned to bathos as the light flickered on nothing more fateful than a dead crow. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Wordsworth had none, and he wallowed in bathos. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z He understood that this engagement, which had seemed to him like a piece of half-contemptible bathos, had suddenly become the first and most desirable thing in his life! The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z Unable to speak, and unconscious of bathos, she vehemently nodded her head. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Uncle Ro and I laughed, in spite of our efforts to the contrary, there being a bathos in this question that was supremely ridiculous. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z There is more than enough bathos in the City. City Room: Goodbye, New York. Thanks for Breaking My Heart. 2010-10-13T16:40:00Z Calling it "without question the proudest moment of my golfing career", Monty coped well enough, with no descent into Faldo-style bathos. Ryder Cup 2010: Tiger Woods has nowhere to hide at Celtic Manor 2010-09-30T19:34:00Z So here, with some bathos, is my confession: I bought an e-reader. Letter From Europe: Straddling the Ink and Pixel Divide 2010-06-25T11:01:00Z Isner, understandably stiff, started with a creaking double fault and briefly the crowd drew breath, anticipating the bathos of a speedy collapse. Isner earns victory - and rest - at last 2010-06-24T19:04:00Z It is often difficult to distinguish between “anticlimax” and “bathos”; but the former is more decidedly a relative term. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" But when he subjected me to cross-examination, forcing me into a bathos of poverty, as he thought, I broke down. Ayala's Angel For Tacitus gave facilities for journalese, Juvenal for obscenity, and Pindar for colossal bathos. Years of Plenty Who, on looking at a glorious landscape, does not feel the insufferable bathos of the descriptive enthusiast beside him? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance To say that the morsels fetched their weight in gold would be the reverse of exaggeration—mere bathos. The Woodlands Orchids A whole speech may never rise above the level of bathos; but a climax of greater or less elevation is the necessary antecedent of an anticlimax. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It is surprising that Pope did not feel the bathos of the expression, "'Tis yours, my lord," introduced into the midst of the high-flown adulation. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition This idea was strengthened by his reference to Bunyan; and the extravagant vision at the 'end hole,' with all its bathos and absurdity, suggested some acquaintance with Milton. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews Algernon Sydney do a deal, but they can't do everything,—not to say that captious folk see a certain bathos in the collocation with my surname. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole." A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Truly," thought he, "it's but a step from sentiment to bathos. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge "A well-informed revelation!" the reader may cry: "What terrible bathos!" God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The commonplace remark saved the situation from bathos, as I am now certain shrewd old Yank knew it would. Gold Moreover, there is a progression—I cannot call it a progress—in his work towards a more and more strictly prosaic level, until at last he sinks into the bathos of the prosy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Nor is there in his love of nature any transcendental strain; no mawkish sentimentality, and consequently in its expression no bathos. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series There was nothing of bathos, nothing in the least ludicrous, to me in this last reflection. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The ladies each narrated the story of her marriage, our two Hebrews with the prettiest combination of sentiment and financial bathos. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Pope, who was never known to laugh, was a great wit, but his sense of humour was small, and the descent from these deities to Queen Anne savours not a little of bathos. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) We fear bathos too much, are shyly decent to the pitch of mania. The Passionate Friends That master of bathos, Martin Tupper, finds this idea very suitable. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) To say that it is as natural as birth is to be guilty of pure bathos; even the worm crushed and quivering denies the sentiment. Christ, Christianity and the Bible To content oneself with pronouncing such preference to be eminently unscientific is tenderness of language nearly akin, I fear, to literary bathos. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications He had plunged in his nervousness to the lowermost bathos. Audrey Craven By the way, in what a bathos of mystery are most of our terms expressing the moral relations plunged! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He does not go very deep: let gentlemen of a profound genius, critics accustomed to the plunge of the bathos, console themselves by thinking that he couldn't go very deep. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It is to be admitted that but for this dignity two at least would fall into some peril of bathos. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 Thus, we range from the bathos and vulgarity of the music hall to the glories of grand opera! Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces For any one who had enjoyed the friendship of such men as Langley Wyndham and Flaxman Reed, there was bathos in the step; it seemed an ugly concession to actuality. Audrey Craven And the climax seemed inadequate to the point of bathos. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 The 1674 broadside in defense of coffee was the first to be illustrated; and for all its air of pretentious grandeur and occasional bathos, it was not a bad rhyming advertisement for the persecuted drink. All About Coffee I gazed at him in admiration—real admiration—because the gross bathos he had just uttered betrayed a weakness—vanity. The Maids of Paradise But the actual descriptions of the process in the Reimerdes case smack more of bathos than terror. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind He was a master of delicate satire, and used with much effect the difficult humour of sheer bathos, happily adapted by him from some of the early folk-songs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Sandy Graff crying, and now and then wiping his eyes with the damp and dirty sheet, was almost a more ugly sight than he had been in the maudlin bathos of his former drunkenness. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk After that the play, I confess, was a drop into bathos. Appearances Being Notes of Travel What sudden bathos in the sentence, you think! Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving But it will be inevitable, when the two come first into contact, that the bathos will sound like vulgarity and the extravagance will sound like boasting. What I Saw in America That is why there is a sort of conversational ease about his love-poetry, and here and there lapses into what, to an artistic sense, might seem bathos, absurdity, or rhetoric. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The scale of work, starting from the original bathos of domestic sentimentality, runs up to the veriest contortions of affected mediævalism, rarely striking out a note of common sense. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 There was a horrible and 190 sardonic humour in the whole business, a bathos that insulted the soul. The Pools of Silence The bathos of the thought and style may be judged from the heroine's affecting mention of an entertainment as "the last ballet my unhappy father ever saw." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 "Oh, yes, I know that, ma'am," and Mr. Pritchett here sank to the lowest bathos of misery. The Bertrams But he should not make the Capitol a "Place of Wailing" and the Congressional Record a book of bathos. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Descend we therefore from the head and trunk of man—a curious bathos—to his understandings and unmentionables; you know what we mean. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 The mind shudders at the thought of the bathos into which a little remorse in that contemptible villain would have plunged his victim. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography And I daresay there are a great many of you to whom the utterance of the word suggests that I am plunging into the bathos and commonplaces of the pulpit. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The arrangement of the words or clauses in a descending order is called anticlimax or bathos. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism This scene ended, he seemed conscious of a bathos. The King's Mirror Considering the heights at which both words and music aimed, it is amazing that they did not fall into utter wreck and nauseating bathos. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It contained much learning—had flights of eloquence, bursts of bathos, puffs of pathos, but not a smile in the whole hour and a half. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The bathos of this peroration was too much for Jan Steenbock, and he burst into a loud “ho! ho!” The Island Treasure There is a scene or two in which he takes his amazonian Judith to the very edge of bathos. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Intentional bathos has a humorous incongruity and abruptness that is sometimes forcible. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition 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 In about 1860, however, he was driven from the market by the rise of a cheaper medium, chromolithography, which was responsible in the next few decades for a universal outpouring of popular bathos. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut It is to deny that the seed sprang from a root; it is to replace a grand and illimitable theism by a finite and vainglorious bathos. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida By the by, one of my corrections in the fair copy sent yesterday has dived into the bathos some sixty fathom— 'When Garrick died, and Brinsley ceased to write.' The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 It is as absurd bathos as to say the essentials of a judge are integrity, learning, patience—and an ermine robe! Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Whenever I gave him the chance, he was safe to slide in some of his vulgar bathos after any heroic sentiment or personal opinion I may have uttered. She and I, Volume 1 The bathos of table turning had surely been reached when it came to banging the leg of the table down four times, and calmly announcing four o'clock as the time for my first vision! Seen and Unseen The public, who laughed next week over the ridiculous bathos of those twenty loud-sounding ballads, little guessed the misery and disgust they had cost their author. A Dog with a Bad Name The humour of this scene, in which she made conventional conversation without any real effort to conceal her sense of the bathos of the situation, was very perfect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 It is the sense-of-humor that makes the master of comedy, that helps him to see things in due proportion and perspective, that keeps him from exaggeration and emphasis, from sentimentality and melodrama and bathos. The Nabob, Volume 1 The evening was saved from bathos by the news that the Division was to be relieved. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry It was an anti-climax, a bathos, of which St. Augustine is seldom guilty. My New Curate "I'm quite disappointingly all right," she assured him hastily, stung by a keen sense that her catastrophe had fallen headlong from impending tragedy to bathos. The Great Amulet He resolved to build a play not on pathos, but on bathos. George Bernard Shaw We dealt liberally in jeers at any exhibition of bathos or fustian; in laughter and applause at any touch of eloquence or wit. Confessions of Boyhood It may be statements of fact and items of information; it may be sound science and unimpeachable record; it may be truism; it may be platitude; it is often sheer bathos or doggerel. Platform Monologues As Gordon walked down the library steps he was painfully aware of having been the principal character in a scene of sustained bathos. The Loom of Youth How is it possible to end such a story without bathos? Lourdes The name itself is meant to be a bathos; arms—and the man. George Bernard Shaw There was too much of the bathos of rhetoric, especially at first; too much addressing the German as "thou fell, bloody brute," and the like, which broke no bones and took no trenches. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters How often do we find in novels that the author makes an attempt at realism and falls into a bathos of absurdity, because he cannot use appropriate language? Thackeray Yet who can read that last line without feeling that Wilde is poised on the edge of a precipice of bathos; that the phrase comes very near to being quite startlingly silly. The Victorian Age in Literature And with all this, Dickens was not incapable of bathos, or tragedy suddenly exploding in farce. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It is well to begin with the superficial; and this is the superficial effectiveness of Shaw; the brilliancy of bathos. George Bernard Shaw Moreover, he has to give examples of the faults opposed to sublimity, he has to dive into and search the bathos, to dally over examples of the bombastic, the over-wrought, the puerile. On the Sublime Let gentlemen of a profound genius, critics accustomed to the plunge of the bathos, console themselves by thinking that he couldn't go very deep. Thackeray Music as a vehicle for such meanings was mere Egyptian hieroglyphic, utterly beyond his limitation, absolute bathos and absurdity. Great Violinists And Pianists This is bathos that unfortunately goes too far. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition In Arms and the Man the bathos of form was strictly the incarnation of a strong satire in the idea. George Bernard Shaw Then came an interruption so unexpected and yet so natural that the whole scene seemed at once to dissolve into bathos. The Betrayal Me progressive and the depth of me progressive, And the bathos, Anglice bathos Of me chanting to the Public the song of Simple Enumeration. Green Bays. Verses and Parodies It seemed as if the bathos of theological and ethical absurdity could not lie deeper; but I was mistaken. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic What a sample of the bathos will his history present! Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 "By the by, one of my corrections in the fair copy sent yesterday has dived into the bathos some sixty fathom— "When Garrick died, and Brinsley ceased to write. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals After so solemn a tribute from so great a saint, it seems almost a profanity—certainly a bathos—to add any more secular touches. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences There is poetry in the man, though, now and then, seen between the great gaps of bathos.... The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 And yet this apparent bathos is apparent only, and the fact that so narrow and earthly a petition has its place in the pattern of all prayer is full of instruction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The closing words of the speech approached dangerously near to bathos. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Other examples of lengthening are 'bathos', 'pathos', while the long quantity is of course kept in 'colon' and 'crasis'. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin A full half a minute ticked by before he grasped at the remainder of his father's speech, and, like a breaking twig, it dropped him to bathos. Lady Good-for-Nothing The first, that in the year 1759 the Italian painters were, in our author's opinion, sunk in the very bathos of insipidity. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin I knew that any word of mine would inevitably precipitate the bathos of a civilised conversation. The Jervaise Comedy But splendid as this is, Mr. Stephens can make the force of bathos go a little further. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 It was silly, sentimental, schoolboyish—what you please; but every man's first declaration of love is bathos—the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. Jaffery Coleridge found an almost burlesque bathos in the second couplet after the first. Aspects of Literature You cannot surprise me by any narrative of imbecility or turpitude or bathos. The Lion's Share I attempted to see the affair as a slightly ridiculous episode that had occupied exactly twelve hours and ended with an inevitable bathos. The Jervaise Comedy You require a deep-sea-lead of uncommonly cunning construction to sound, register, and compare the profundities of the bathos in novels. The English Novel There was the bathos of a poor speech from Colonel Nolan, and then the division. Sketches in the House (1893) To your sentimentalist that straw looks heroic; to anybody that knows the difference between bathos and pathos it simply looks silly. Through stained glass But England was deeper; and, somehow, in spite of prophecy, the affair had taken place without even a touch of bathos or grotesqueness. Lord of the World And the result of the effort seemed always to be bathos! The Hill of Dreams It is a way that women and wives have, and they never see the bathos of it. Bebee Let us not descend to the bathos, when we should soar to the climax! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II It is bathos on the top of the superb. Greatheart Well did Campbell say of Sternhold and Hopkins, the co-translators of the Psalms of David into English metre, "mistaking vulgarity for simplicity, they turned into bathos what they found sublime." The Parish Clerk It has many touches of an almost wild bathos, such as the young man who bears the impossible name of Gigadibs. Robert Browning But he rarely indulged in a trope or a flight, never in bathos nor in bursts of ill-balanced appeal. The Conqueror Even their utter bathos cannot degrade a group of buildings so wonderful. The Charm of Oxford The last line is a delightful bathos, adding immensely to the completeness of the catastrophe. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor A fool—I wish all blustering chaps were dead, That's the true bathos to have done with them. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831 Two volumes alone were not bathos, The one by an early Chinese, The other, that infinite pathos, Our Nursery Rhymes, if you please. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Not only of bathos, but of vulgar bathos, from which gentility revolted, must she be the exponent, thanks to Damaris' indiscretion! Deadham Hard This stroke of bathos brought about good-humor again, and soon our whole attention was absorbed in that magical music which to this hour electrifies me more than that of any other opera excepting "Norma." Miriam Monfort A Novel As Constance saw the man full in the face, there was a bathos in her zeal, and she stopped, open-mouthed, and closed the book. Mistress Penwick No such series of pictures, however fairly wrought--and Browne's too often end in bathos--can possibly convey the impression of continuons action. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England The adult male person is not so much shocked at the coarseness of this story as astounded at the bathos of its introduction. Sterne Tamely to wish a man a safe issue seemed to be a common compliment incommensurate with the occasion; and a bathos. The Castle Inn The shop-girl story: Torn boots and temptation, tears and snears, pathos and bathos, all the way from Zola to the vice inquiry. Cheerful—By Request The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 His pathos, as is the case with all weak writers, constantly trembles on the verge of bathos, while his lack of humour betrays him into penning passages of elaborate fatuity. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England That really sounds something like a bathos, after the great big Greek word which you have been propounding to me as the cure for all my doubts.” Phaethon But on the present occasion we will not presume that our friend has fallen into so deep a bathos of misfortune. Hunting Sketches And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance. Wuthering Heights The ladies each narrated the story of her marriage, our two Hebrews with the prettiest combination of sentiment and financial bathos. The Silverado Squatters Moreover, there is a progression - I cannot call it a progress - in his work towards a more and more strictly prosaic level, until at last he sinks into the bathos of the prosy. Familiar Studies of Men and Books His soul danced with joy at that picture of starvation which is so good-humoured, of squalor which is so picturesque, of sordid love which is so romantic, of bathos which is so moving. Of Human Bondage The pompous flatulence of the language touched bathos. The Centaur It is the same production in which the following much-laughed-at specimen of bathos is found: 'Nor Alps nor Pyreneans keep him out, Nor fortified redoubt.' The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Then she felt absurd and looked absurd and stood there with the quick fizzing spurt of exultation died down into a state of bathos. Star-Dust And the descent from the "assassin of the hopes of women" to "the reptile in the path" struck her as a silly bathos. Delia Blanchflower The imagination is disgusted by the anti-climax; and of all species of the bathos, the sinking from visionary happiness to sober reality is that from which human nature is most averse. Tales and Novels — Volume 06 He stopped and gave way to his bathos, throwing back his head and laughing heartily. Quaint Courtships I think "thousands" less flat than "crowds collected"— but don't let me plunge into the bathos, or rise into Nat. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Two gentlemen who had all but reached the smug bathos of a mutual admiration society turned astonished eyes at the intruder. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism—the muddy eddy of thy logic! The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge And it had sounded like bathos or sacrilege. Three Weeks This personage is at present the most profound explorer of the bathos. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 By the by, one of my corrections in the fair copy sent yesterday has dived into the bathos some sixty fathom: When Garrick died, and Brinsley ceased to write. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Fenton was continually treading upon the dangerous edge between pathos and bathos, between impressiveness and absurdity. The Pagans There may be a still deeper descent; but that is bathos sufficient for any lover of his species. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics There is bathos, after these claims, in the concern some poets show over the question of priority between themselves and kings. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years For that brief flash the reporter had been lifted out of his bathos and tawdriness into a clearer element. From a Bench in Our Square It is the gentle laugh, not violating, but just humanising, that very solemn kiss; the quip that just saves passion from toppling over the brink into bathos, that mark the skilful lover. Young Lives He often brings his tiresome extravaganzas to a magnificent climax of melody, and just as often concludes an inimitable chant with a most contemptible bathos. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 Tragedy hath, of all writings, the greatest share in the bathos; which is the profound of Scriblerus. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 After this it is bathos to speak of the Stationers' Company; but we must do so. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Was the end of her speech a bathos? Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face I had realised this when I was writing Framley Parsonage; and working on the conviction which had thus come home to me, I fell into no bathos of dulness. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope However, he perceived that he was on the wrong track, and plunged into strange bathos, a string of empty but high-sounding words, which Silvere accepted as a satisfactory proof of his civism. The Fortune of the Rougons The world knows by this time that creation is an empty jest; we are all beginning to understand its bathos! Ardath The bathos of the word made me laugh louder. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel And the final allusion he made to his age—THAT was a masterstroke of pathos!—or bathos? God's Good Man In Mrs Dale's little household there had been no rising to grandeur; but then, also, there had never been any bathos of dirt. The Small House at Allington The romance of these remarkable espousals was not to find its conclusion in bathos. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten On another occasion he described the square as "the nation's last phase of artistic bathos." The Life of Sir Richard Burton Mr. Galsworthy had a peep, and sank down towards bathos. Touch and Go Even Joan, with her quick eye for the ridiculous, failed to detect the bathos of his attitude, and merely thought that he was trying to be funny and not succeeding. Who Cares? a story of adolescence This is not their natural bathos but their misuse. Clever Woman of the Family Too often his pathos sinks to bathos, and this not from want of skill, but from want of care. Idle Ideas in 1905 They flounder about between fustian in expression and bathos in sentiment. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners The bathos of this visit roused an acid fury in Hilary. Fraternity I was not going to give it up, however, so I shocked myself into a torpid animation with a cold bath, it being mid-winter, and betwixt bath and bathos, managed to keep agoing till daylight. Gala-days Where has all the tradition of the great religious literatures gone to that a man should come on such a bathos with such a bump? Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Does Xenophon feel the bathos of this, or is hdg. wrong and there is no bathos? Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus And yet there wasn't any bathos at all, really. And Even Now "Oh, bathos!" said Lady Bath, while the 'prentices shouted applause. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth If she had it to perform after telling her love, and after receiving his gift and his farewell, the bathos would be distressing for them both. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story One of their favourite blunders is an amazing sort of bathos. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays It may be that Lorison, in spite of the unconvincing bathos of this appeal, showed a sympathetic face, for one of the officers left the woman's side, and went over to him. Whirligigs Modeste tells me that all that bathos is put in by the translator, and that I ought to read the book in English. Modeste Mignon "I'll bring you some more," said Amyas; whom the childish bathos of the last sentence moved rather to sighs than laughter. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth One thinks of his coming to this conclusion with knit brows and balancing intentness above whole gulfs of bathos—very much as he had once walked the Leysin Bisse.... The Research Magnificent The theatrical quality of the scene and the turgid rhetorical bathos of the boy's speeches attested his youth and the unformed violence of his emotions. The Riverman |
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