bathos

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

   “I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...”

2. isim A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

   “While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.”

3. isim An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
4. isim A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
5. isim Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
6. isim A hyperbole: excessiveness.
7. isim The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
8. isim A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

   “How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!”