bathetic

How To Use bathetic In A Sentence

• This, Reynolds tells us somewhat bathetically, was recycled from a rejected text for a French war memorial in 1918.
• Coverdale, Matthew and the Bishops' all end with the slightly bathetic "henceforth", but Tyndale has the simpler "any more" albeit following the musclebound "neither shall they teach to war", a phrase turned around by everybody else into variants of "neither shall they learn to fight". The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
• a bathetic novel
• Yes, it could be shorter, even though some story lines are crudely truncated, and the four false endings are a bathetic anti-climax, but Jackson's journey benefits from the lulls.
• As crises go, the Clinton-Lewinsky imbroglio is now an absurdist, bathetic footnote to what was in fact significant about that era: the evolution of finance in a culture of deregulation and the evolution of jihadism against the United States. Time For A Slow-Word Movement
• It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet. Archive 2009-10-01
• Blurb bathos is a killer, because it’s actually really fun and easy to be blurb bathetic in the same way it’s fun and easy to write a bathetic poem. About Reviews : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• But the effect is calculatedly bathetic, since it turns out that what saves or condemns you is such embarrassingly quotidian matters as whether you fed the hungry and visited the sick.
• I was so relieved by this sensible decision that I could only say bathetically: `There's some duckling a l'orange in the deep-freeze. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• This line could be a motto for his work, which uses unremarkable language to great effect - here registering a disappointment so pervasive that even its expression is bathetic.