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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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No references found			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"? Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte by Kauffman, Bill / The American Conservative 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. EDMONTON by Rankin, Bill / Opera Canada 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. John Leonard Taught Me to Write by Mark Lotto / The New York Observer			Batenkov, Gavriil Batenkov, Gavriil Stepanovich Bates Bates College Bates County Bates, Belinda Bates, Edward Bates, H. E. Bates, Henry Walter Bates, Katharine Lee Bates, Katherine Lee Bates, Miss Bates, Ted Batesian mimicry Bateson, Gregory Bateson, William batfish bath Bath and North East Somerset Bath County Bath International Music Festival Bath Sponge bath trap Bath-rabbim Bath-sheba bathetic Bathhouse Bathing Bathmogenesis bathochromatic shift Bathochromic and Hypsochromic Effects batholite batholith Bathometer Bathonian Bathonian Stage bathophobia Bathornithidae Báthory bathos bathroom bathroom cabinet Baths Baths of Caracalla baths of Caracalla and Diocletian Bathsheba bathtub bathtub capacitor bathtub curve Bathurst Bathurst Island			Bath-sheba Bath-sheba Bath-shua Bath-shua Bath-tub curve bathcap bathchair bathe bathe bathe bathe bathe bathe in Bathe It in Prayer Bathe Your Own Dog Llc bathed bathed bathed bathed BATHEN bather bather Bathers bathes bathes Bathesda Bathesda Bathesphere Bathesphere bathesthesia bathetic bathetically Bathgate Historic Conservation Society bathhouse bathhouse bathhouses bathhouses bathing bathing bathing bathing Bathing Ape Bathing Beauty bathing cap bathing costume bathing costumes bathing machine Bathing machines Bathing persons with Alzheimer’s disease aT Home Study bathing suit Bathing Suit Distribution bathing suit pattern Bathing suits bathing trunk nevus bathing trunks bathing tub Bathing waters Bathing Waters Research Group

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bathos (redirected from bathetic)

bathos
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