bathos

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...

A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.

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:

A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to: