How to Use bathos in a Sentence

bathos

noun

• Still, all of the bathos in the world can’t keep this would-be blockbuster from being a prime example of le cinéma du bottom line.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
• Both are perfectly capable of turning sequences that teeter on the edge of bathos into brawls.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
• This time round, though, an unfortunate silliness sometimes creeps in, where the film risks tipping over Shakespearean-size emotions into embarrassing bathos.
  — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
• So the question is why and how our moment of—pick your poison—late capitalism, permanent emergency, the death of the Anthropocene—has turned to an old form to describe the oxymoronic simultaneity of pathos and bathos, horror and the risible.
  — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
• At the same time, no one in metal was funnier, more in touch with his own bathos, more post–Spinal Tap, in a sense, than Ozzy, especially in his shambling-paterfamilias incarnation on MTV’s reality show The Osbournes.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025