| 单词 | bathetic |
| 例句 | But, in its context, this isn’t delivered for comic or bathetic effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He is vexed by the discrepancy between the streamlined facade of Italian railways and the bathetic complications lurking beneath. Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review 2013-06-22T13:00:02Z It’s hard to beat a sitcom as a satirical target, and the bland, bathetic “House” is wide open, with its cloying “Three Men and a Three-Daughter Family” premise. Review: ‘Full House! The Musical!’ Lampoons a Ripe Sitcom Target 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z "That's not a man!" he gasped, in what was obviously one of world drama's great bathetic lines. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z But that final, bathetic capture of Terry was at least a hint of the show’s promise. The Killing Season Finale: A Semi-Semi-Defense 2012-06-18T18:38:57Z With its bathetic title and prim Yorkshire setting, Last Tango in Halifax looked like it might be a rather twee affair. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z It would be bathetic to compare the upheavals, rebellions and mortal struggles of the Arab Spring to the changing of the guard among fashion designers. 'Big O' Birthdays for Generations of Designers 2011-12-05T15:00:38Z Taken together, her tribulations have the makings of bathetic melodrama. | 'Life, Above All': Burdened in a Ravaged South Africa 2011-07-14T21:45:54Z So much of this episode — a disappointing one whose pedestrian detective story climaxes with a bathetic confrontation — boiled down to waiting to see if and how Jones would handle breaking the difficult news to Cage. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 6: The Truth Comes Out 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Viewers learn more about him in those 22 seconds than they do about Vince Vaughn’s troubled baddie in an entire season of bathetic monologues. 'Mr. Robot' Is the Antidote to Your 'True Detective' Blues 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Doc Brown pointed up the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "British rap" with a series of bathetic local lyrics. Our Fringe favourites 2010-08-24T21:15:00Z Meanwhile, he piles on the drama in implausible and bathetic ways: a death row inmate who survives a botched execution; an autistic family member who unknowingly passes along deadly information; several seizures. Review: A Defense Lawyer With Hidden Motives in ‘Undercover’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s deliberately, strangely picturesque then suddenly bathetic, playing with the natural rhythms of both comedy and drama. Patriot: part Homeland-style fable, part stoner spy comedy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Cummings isn’t the most restrained of directors, so there are indulgent passages, like a needlessly extended food fight, and bathetic ones. Review: Helen Keller’s Words and Seven Actors in ‘Three Days to See’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It's a brilliantly bathetic vehicle for what in another context would be just a furious harangue. Eddie Pepitone – review 2013-05-15T17:18:37Z In the ode, however, the "asides" are spoken aloud, bathetically interrupting the elevated poem the speaker is presumably trying, and failing, to write. Poem of the week: A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood 2010-06-22T09:36:00Z Barnes omits the bathetic moments, confirmed by both friends, when the composer wept and lost control. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But in fact, what emerges from this little archive is the bathetic realisation that Great Writers are not really all that Great most of the time. Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye 2011-01-27T23:00:01Z She would – it's just the kind of bathetic detail that crops up in her shows. Isy Suttie interview: 'I'd love to work with Victoria Wood' 2012-06-03T17:30:01Z All Kubrick did was make “The Shining” 10 times scarier and 75 percent less bathetic than the book. Review | A new TV version of ‘The Stand’ pits good against evil after a deadly pandemic. Been there, done that. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Will Close, as England’s captain and star player, Harry Kane, plays up the striker’s famously laconic manner, providing a bathetic counterpoint to the coach’s earnest rhetoric. ‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z It would be bathetic to claim that viewing a Prada show only online is as barren as a virtual vision of Michelangelo’s “David.” Special Report: Italy Deserves More Than a Long Weekend 2010-02-25T18:48:00Z “There is,” he adds bathetically, “something very special about this painting.” In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Napoleon continues dancing for a few bathetic seconds before fleeing the stage. Unexpected dancing 2011-08-10T14:20:00Z Even within the narrow limits of royal baby tradition, it is surely more traditional for those connected with the crown to opt for what is known, rather bathetically in the circumstances, as a “home birth”. Why have the papers become such crybabies about the royal baby? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it was bathetic to see a furiously earnest protest song reduced to a novelty dig at a TV show, dressed in hoary rockist rhetoric about "real" music versus "fake" pop. Thatcher Ding Dong! chart campaign is puerile – but the best protest available 2013-04-11T11:46:33Z I still can’t put my finger on what it is, if not erotic, if not bathetic, if neither joyful nor sad. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z This bathetic prelude is perhaps meant to communicate the man’s impudence, but it also readies the audience for a film of modest ambitions. ‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z And it establishes Brown's likable unique selling point: the mix of hip and aggressive form with bumbling, bathetic content. Doc Brown 2010-08-08T14:45:00Z A 1994 review in The New York Times called his photos “bathetic, tinged with a syrupy sentimentality.” Duane Michals Prepares for His Retrospective 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z At the conclusion, when Mr. O’Neal repeats her bathetic utterance, they shout, “Plagiarist!” Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z 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. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z This week, drifting in the wake of yet another bathetic Oscars broadcast, it’s an appropriate time to consider Micheaux. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z And the whole first movement that followed was taken at a pace so slow it was downright lugubrious, sometimes verging on the bathetic. Royal Concertgebouw makes a mark with the overfamiliar in D.C. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z There’s much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z 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. Wes Anderson's 'French Dispatch' is an imitation of France. You may not want to visit 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z At the east, there are the glinting sheds of the new, bathetically named Solstice Park, an out-of-town business estate complete with a Costa, a McDonald’s and a Holiday Inn. The battle for the future of Stonehenge 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Working-class men aren’t typically offered the opportunity to pen bathetic odes to their former glory in national publications – citing Lolita and Brahms, as Hockenberry did, to explain an apparent penchant for stalking. MeToo's hidden activists? Working class women 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The poem’s habitual conjunction of the carefully qualifying parentheses with the martial invocation is, to say the least, bathetic. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z For someone who once sang “It doesn’t matter if we all die”, Smith has an endearing relish for the bathetic comedy of life. The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I was very optimistic when I was young – now I'm the opposite' 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z A bathetic poet such as Lewis Theobald might write an overblown rendition of someone lighting an ordinary fire: “Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft, / Quick to expand th’ inclement air congealed.” The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z We do not expect artists to be heroes, but we have come to accept that the art of totalitarian regimes is, by a kind of moral corollary, bound to be bathetic kitsch. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl’s Divided World 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z "Video versions of the 'traditional' wince-inducing and bathetic family newsletters are simply the latest seasonal assault on taste, manners and discretion," says British design critic and cultural commentator Stephen Bayley. The surreal world of the family Xmas video card 2013-12-19T17:01:30Z Watergate showed us a president and his inner circle brought down by their bathetic attempts to cover up what was, in fact, a minor, amateurish and nearly routine act of political subterfuge. Abscam, the NSA and the ’70s: The real “American Hustle” 2013-12-14T17:00:00Z In the end, all modern artists share something of the bathetic condition of chefs, for whereas their works may not themselves erode, the responses of their audiences will. Info addicts 2011-01-14T17:55:23Z He saw his fellow-citizens as being naturally bathetic—striving for spiritual grandeur while ultimately mired in everyday, material concerns. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z A dim-witted promotion for the NBC Tuesday prime-time lineup sought to bundle the bathetic reality series “The Biggest Loser” with a new scripted show, “Parenthood,” as “our night for family.” Advertising: Medals for Ads During NBC?s Winter Olympics Coverage 2010-03-02T01:57:00Z This curious coincidence, this prosaic resumption of the broken narrative, is naïve at least, but can hardly commend itself to any critic as being other than commonplace and bathetic. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century "O Stern Old Land" is a rather bathetic candidate for the national hymnship. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Frank sat astride a chair, looking over the back of it at Hans, who had stood in the middle of the room as he told his "bathetic sdory." Frank Merriwell's Cruise It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z After these high examples of the Romance of Renunciation, it may seem rather bathetic to cite the instance which has given rise to this chapter. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences But having once more lost control of this, he throws himself upon the ground "Moaning 'My violences, my violences!'"— a bathetic descent not unexampled elsewhere in Tennyson. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Once we had a bathetic bit of excitement over a near case of grounding, where the water had spread itself out to ripple down to a lower level. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan To esteem a man in inverse ratio to the amount of remarkable blood he has inherited is, to say the least, bathetic. The Soul of the Far East It is comforting to note, however, that our era isn’t alone in its bathetic encounters. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. The Big and Small of Bad Internet News 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z |
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