bathetic

Example Sentences

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The lead-up to Britain’s formal departure from the European Union, at 11pm on Friday, has made headlines mainly due to a somewhat bathetic row over Big Ben and church bells.

From The Guardian

In the past century of fiction, the middle-aged male protagonist has sprawled and rutted his way to a kind of bathetic greatness in the hands of Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow.

From The Guardian

The poem’s habitual conjunction of the carefully qualifying parentheses with the martial invocation is, to say the least, bathetic.

From The New Yorker

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

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

From The Guardian