bathetic

The scene, which could have been bathetic, is a killer.

Yet baseball must be better off than the bathetic commissioner was making out.

The words were bathetic but behind them there was a despair frightening in its intensity.

But just as often, he stumbles upon wonderfully bathetic passages.

To Jude's eye the effect of such efforts was always bathetic.

Jonathan, I feel obliged to state that most modern art is bathetic and bland.

The effect is odd but also charming: sometimes bathetic, sometimes sublime.

It has taken "meaningfulness" to new bathetic depths of triteness.

Antony had given in after a performance that went from terrifying rage to bathetic tears.

Just as often, though, they're bathetic, tinged with a syrupy sentimentality.

It makes for a frank and sorrowful libretto, the sort that when set to music can be made to sound bathetic.

"There was a danger of it being bathetic, that it would become sentimental.

The effect of this is bathetic and off-putting.

The cause of the thermal, when she finally reached it, was almost bathetic: a pool of liquid.

Perhaps the scenes between the two teen girls keep the film from devolving into bathetic melodrama.

The end becomes almost bathetic, as the lifelong lovers are reunited before her death (at 44, a probable suicide).

"You will never make an archaeologist, John, if you allow such bathetic thoughts to intrude."

When the material is thin, the Prestons bulk the book out with background, often to bathetic effect.

Triumph it was, in a sense for the Shah; but it was also some what bathetic.

They laughed at the jokes and innuendos, cried at the bathetic songs.

It wasn't bathetic, but neither was Strauss.

To some viewers they may appear, at first glance, bathetic evocations of concentration camps and the Holocaust.

In a speech to the Assembly, of course one must say his verse is bathetic and limps in every foot.