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bathos
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bathos
Lit a sudden ludicrous descent from exalted to ordinary matters or style in speech or writing


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Sure, North Carolina gave us Willie Jones, Michael Jordan, Thomas Wolfe, Fred Chappell, and dancing-pig barbecue shacks, but there's that embarrassing Gomer and Goober thing, and besides, what do states matter when all are bathed equally in the bathetic "God Bless the USA"?
The rest at" the cast and the Edmonton Opera chorus were solid, but Chuchman elevated this bathetic French farce into an evening of operatic giddiness.
If they do want to hear about it—the grief performers, the exhibitionists of bathetic wallow, the prurient ghouls—you don't want to know them.
 
 
 
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