sense of bathos

[Kristina77]

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.

Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:

'It was decided not to dwell on it in front of new recruits. It was considered too discouraging.'
'Discouraging?' I almost laugh, the word said with no sense of bathos, no derision, but I collect myself. 'So our Ms Sanderson was in that. Interesting.'
Заранее спасибо

[Nina79]

This is one of my favorite words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathos

[ranlin]

Имхо, "без тени ложного пафоса", или просто "без ложного пафоса"

[ranlin]

Впрочем, не "ложного", а "нарочитого".