bathetic

• And across that silence: bathetic, ridiculous and disturbing, broke the unmistakable bleat of a billy goat. —  Spinsters in Jeopardy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 17
• And the landscape of Lancashire is depicted with the grand Romanticism songwriters usually reserve for America: "The road back to Preston was covered all in snow," they sing, sounding not bathetic or knowing, but rather awestruck at the sight. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
• His first professional job involved touring the Catskills in a "a play about anti-Semitism and the Jewish experience in America," whose bathetic title -- "This Too Shall Pass" -- Philip Roth would have been proud to have come up with. —  Articles
• Day Gardner, the head of the National Black Pro-Life Union, notes Obama talked about reducing abortions during the campaign, but she says Obama's record will likely prove those claims bathetic. —  LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines
• Michelle Orange for the Reeler: "The Lookout taps into that familiar vein of backwater desolation and the gnarled up, snowed-in, small-time plans of smaller-time crooks, but with Gordon-Levitt's eerily self-possessed, pitiful but never bathetic dupe as our conduit, the heist tropes take over without letting you to slip into plot auto-pilot." —  GreenCine Daily

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