bathetic

Example Sentences

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The action sequences, simultaneously thrilling, slapstick and bathetic, served the larger purpose of “Barry,” to tell the story of an antihero without celebrating his antiheroism.

From New York Times

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

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

From Washington Post

I still can’t put my finger on what it is, if not erotic, if not bathetic, if neither joyful nor sad.

From The Guardian

There’s much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic.

From New York Times