bathetic

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• An intriguing first two sentences, there, that drop bathetically into Amis-père-like reactionary noodling. Archive 2010-03-01
• 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.
• 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.
• I've yet to see such a prose exercise avoid coming off as unnecessarily...and, at times, bathetically defensive. Archive 2010-02-01
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative.
• 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