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

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 • May 6, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

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

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith