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

For someone who once sang “It doesn’t matter if we all die”, Smith has an endearing relish for the bathetic comedy of life.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

Meanwhile, he piles on the drama in implausible and bathetic ways: a death row inmate who survives a botched execution; an autistic family member who unknowingly passes along deadly information; several seizures.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016

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

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith