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Bathos meaning
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. | A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to | A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
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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.