Example sentences for: bathetic

How can you use “bathetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Despite raves for Robert Downey Jr.'s performance in director James Toback's comedy, critics deem Two Girls bathetic.

  • And this has particularly sapped the vigor and strength of the black intellectual, his or her incisiveness swallowed in a sea of bathetic race promoting.

  • The bathetic discovery that Roman Catholicism has little to do with Horatius has no effect on his philosophy of life (asked to choose between the Russians and the Americans, he chooses the Russians as he chose Rome, because of the letter r , "particularly the capital R , the strongest of all letters"); but there's a larger reality that will not be ignored: the fact that he, thinking only of Leonidas at Thermopylae, has by his choice of faiths isolated himself in a Protestant-majority school.

  • At one point, the LAT makes a bathetic and rather yuppyish reference to Clinton's role, saying that thus far, he has "invested more than 55 hours" in the summit talks.


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