Again this is for a bathetic effect - to make the reader laugh and make the author sound silly and absurd. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
A bathetic novel. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas. From Dictionary.com.
I used 'bathetic' in an e-mail to council colleagues - one of them told me my spellchecker was faulty. From Wordnik.com. [A tad irritating] Reference
Dickens's readers really wanted to feel the kind of bathetic sadness that he tried to evoke. From Wordnik.com. [SharperIron] Reference
Prose this bathetic positively demands an interrobang. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
It is now comic-bathetic instead of actually thrilling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
And then there's his tendency to pop psychologizing or bathetic imaginings. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference
The cause of the thermal, when she finally reached it, was almost bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
Another pantomimic skit in the bathetic spectacle that is the Labour conference. From Wordnik.com. [Cruising on Punternet] Reference
Somehow that image wars in me between the thoroughly risible and the utterly bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [For better or nothing] Reference
Ted Kennedy has escaped the tragedy of his brothers and his sad fate is only bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Democratic Convention.] Reference
But, like Kilgore's bathetic gem, this knowledge offers little comfort and less insight. From Wordnik.com. [Detroit Is Facing a Scary New Normality] Reference
By following their lame advice, by trying to be someone he isn't, Obama sounded bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Keep Presidential Speeches Smart] Reference
But he also conveyed the multiple and slightly bathetic objectives of the British forces. From Wordnik.com. [Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers] Reference
What can I say, I have a weakness for a guy withthe shag haircut and bathetic Romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 26 « raincoaster] Reference
"You will never make an archaeologist, John, if you allow such bathetic thoughts to intrude.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
It would be a comic and bathetic treatment of archetypes and they would have to collide somehow. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-08] Reference
I think perhaps bathetic, not pathetic, but then I am given to bouts of cynicism and misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [Winter has come] Reference
In a speech to the Assembly, of course one must say his verse is bathetic and limps in every foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
This was the "Checkers" speech, a bathetic but eminently successful attempt to play on public sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
When true misery and bathetic manipulation start to blur, the astringency of poetry helps me sort things out. From Wordnik.com. [Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost] Reference
It's a beautiful melodrama, literally -- a girl in peril, a gloating villain, and a gloriously bathetic score. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Behold, the upshot of MSM coverage that reduces meaningful political conflicts to bathetic interpersonal disputes. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Camp's Comparison Of Obama To Britney: Defining Him As Puffed-Up Dandy] Reference
Let none of my prose be bathetic – displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Make Your Manuscript Less Bathetic] Reference
The band was on break and there was a lull as the survivors came in from the street like so many bathetic souls. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Below Climax] Reference
Without it, the song would be bathetic; with it, Sting nails the precise mood he's after - heartbreak without self-pity. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury Falling] Reference
And it establishes Brown'slikable unique selling point: themix of hip and aggressive form with bumbling, bathetic content. From Wordnik.com. [Doc Brown] Reference
Planets and people have comical names and bizarre characteristics; and threats to the universe are both gruesome and bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [October Books 19) Doctor Who - Slipback] Reference
It was also at least half an hour too long, had some serious plot lacunae what happened to the villagers? and a bathetic ending. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
This miracle has been achieved in spite of bathetic excess, political squeamishness, interagency squabbling and intransigent greed. From Wordnik.com. [Rules of Engagement] Reference
The need is to transform the autobiographical and perhaps bathetic into a story that is more universal and transformative in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Write What You Know] Reference
(One exception: in Owen Wingrave, she perpetrated the most bathetic line in the operatic canon: ‘I must go down to the post office.’). From Wordnik.com. [Fiery genius] Reference
There is also something lovingly bathetic about Seagal. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
The phobic pathetic bathetic splenetic schizophrenic ape. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Chronicle - Headlines] Reference
The final declarations tend to be well-worded but bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.] Reference
But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
Nevertheless, I'm reminded of David Hume's bathetic love letter to the headless king. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of the American West] Reference
I am sure the Master-Musician is too great an artist to allow a bathetic anti-climax. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
It is just bathetic ventriloquism if the voices so obviously issue from the artist herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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