Bathos is a word used in literature that means a lapse in mood in a story. A good sentence would be, the story begins with a bit of bathos.

Expecting the movie to be intellectually stimulating, we were disappointed by its bathos.

The term Bathos in literature means to unsuccessfully attempt to gain sympathy, pity or sorrow. Bathos was first used by Alexander Pope in his writings in 1728.

"Bathos" is originally a Greek word for 'depth' , alos now a word meaning 'anticlimax'.

While the actor's tears were real, the performance was just so much bathos and was annoying rather than convincing.