bathetic

Example Sentences

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That they’re all various degrees of bonkers and/or bathetic is the joke, though it’s not always easy to distinguish between this more strenuously underlined absurdity and regular Wesworld whimsy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021

All Kubrick did was make “The Shining” 10 times scarier and 75 percent less bathetic than the book.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2020

It’s deliberately, strangely picturesque then suddenly bathetic, playing with the natural rhythms of both comedy and drama.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2017

It’s hard to beat a sitcom as a satirical target, and the bland, bathetic “House” is wide open, with its cloying “Three Men and a Three-Daughter Family” premise.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015

But, in its context, this isn’t delivered for comic or bathetic effect.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith