How To Use Bathetic In A Sentence
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This, Reynolds tells us somewhat bathetically, was recycled from a rejected text for a French war memorial in 1918.
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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
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a bathetic novel
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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The ‘fear’ argument is absurd, bathetic, and self-congratulatory.
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An intriguing first two sentences, there, that drop bathetically into Amis-père-like reactionary noodling.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Ruby's voice was bathetically mournful, She must be ripped; at a late party she was bound to be.
I Don’t Understand ?
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Nowadays, when nostalgia is big business and every sports milestone is hyped, such an event would be covered exhaustively and bathetically.
David Margolick: John Updike, Hall of Famer
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With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative.
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As for her biographer, our last sight of him is consistently bathetic as he leaves the sale of the duchess's effects, having successfully bid for a monogrammed bathmat.
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
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The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).
Cover to Cover
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The story in Seymour about the old monk dying and trying to overhear a conversation about washing, over the pious hubbub of the surrounding crowd is bathetic in the true sense.
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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
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I've yet to see such a prose exercise avoid coming off as unnecessarily...and, at times, bathetically defensive.
Archive 2010-02-01
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The contrast between this astonishing piece of political theatre, televised around the planet, and another event a couple of days later, is so staggering, it is bathetic to mention them in the same column.
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Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.