| The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos. |
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| Not everything he does works, but Antopolski deliberately uses anticlimax and bathos in his material. |
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| Even crashing incompatibilities, bathos, or undesired jingly phonetic similarities seem not to impinge on their consciousness. |
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| He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos. |
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| And in reading their requests the bathos of the ultimate penalty is impossible to ignore. |
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| Rather like the way of life it celebrates, The Radetzky March hinges on trivia and bathos more than any real grand gesture. |
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| His last speech here is not only effectively funny, but reproduces, in a stylized sort of way, a realistic bathos that enters into even the highest-stakes situations. |
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| More often, though, it deals only in harsh disappointment and a weird kind of bathos. |
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| And yet, even knowing that they are untrue, that it has once more fallen prey to the bait and bathos of the showbiz press, Lost in Showbiz finds the images conjured by that headline are impossible to eradicate from its brain. |
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| How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present! |
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| A mixture of local pride and bathos is more their thing. |
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| The serious message of the film is ruined by the bathos of its ridiculous ending. |
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