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 • Dec. 21, 2022
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
It’s deliberately, strangely picturesque then suddenly bathetic, playing with the natural rhythms of both comedy and drama.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2017
But, in its context, this isn’t delivered for comic or bathetic effect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
