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(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

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Also vague and kind of bathetic is the novel's depiction of actual mathematical work

—p.223 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful

—p.250 Dead Man Laughing (237) by Zadie Smith
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The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the line-by-line prose, Updike’s great strength for almost forty years.

—p.57 Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think (51) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 3 months ago


Madame Grandet had no completed the woollen sleeves she was knitting, and that for want of them she caught a chill. He is never afraid of bathos.

—p.8 Introduction (5) by Marion Ayton Crawford
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3 years, 4 months ago


And after a bathetic sojourn on Ellis Island, Timofey and Liza parted

—p.50 by Vladimir Nabokov
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out of the endless bathos

—p.21 by John Ashbery
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The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January

—p.82 A Different Class (78) missing author
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whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion

—p.92 I’m Not Feeling Good at All (86) by The Baffler
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4 years, 6 months ago


the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures

—p.117 Letters (2015): The Story of the Lost Child (100) missing author
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What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

—p.42 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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7 years, 4 months ago


his frames of reference zigzag wildly from bathos to profundity

on DFW

—p.43 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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7 years, 5 months ago


which even in the late 1930s when Césaire was composing his poem in Paris carried a folksy and bathetic ring that is only dimly captured in the English

—p.218 On Afropessimism (198) by Jesse McCarthy
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Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies

—p.4 The Information Essay (2) by n+1
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5 years, 7 months ago


Somehow the result of this trick is not bathos but profundity; we see that the story means something more than we thought it might.

—p.157 On Alice Munro (151) missing author
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The horror has passed, and what remains is the slow, lingering bathos as people shuffle into the future.

Bathos flutters over this later novel like a pennant: tragedy has been abolished.

—p.177 On Gary Indiana (171) by n+1
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4 years, 8 months ago


Yes, a majority of Democratic senators voted to invade Iraq, later indulging in bathetic recantations as they transferred their animus to Russia

ugh i love it

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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5 years ago


Even the spy’s sexiness is bathetic

—p.182 On spy fiction (175) missing author
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5 years ago