31. The fans were anticipating the emotional bathos of last year's meeting between the homeboys Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. 32. Not even movie-of-the-week bathos brings much verve to this account, and for good reason. 33. The revolution known as reality television has reached its Thermidor : pathos, verging on bathos , is the ruling fashion. 34. Overhead is a grisaille inset that replicates Hogarth's last painting, a desolate landscape titled " Bathos ." 35. So why the continued interest in a story whose bathos -filled details have been endlessly rehashed for more than a year? 36. As in Hallstrom's previous films, the real tension is not between good and evil but between pathos and bathos . 37. On top of comic excess, such a scenario invites schmaltz and bathos , not to mention a belaboring of gender issues. 38. Only toward the evening's end does Shinn tilt the play's fine balance of compassion and detachment into bathos . 39. There is nothing particularly ghoulish about the exhibit; if anything, it errs on the side of reverence, or perhaps bathos . 40. It was accompanied by a verbal attack on the United States on Friday full of bombast and bathos by Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
