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

his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful

The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the line-by-line prose, Updike’s great strength for almost forty years.

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.

concluding in bathos

It was just a schmaltzy movie, a bathetic trigger for the romantic feelings, forged in my teens, that still lurked within me.

Of course. Marius Appleby is a pseudonym. It's Asprey. I knew it: I wasn't even surprised. It was almost bathetic. What else could explain the familiar taste, and the poundcake richness, of my love-hate for Crossbone Waters?

I often feel this way when alone in Southeast Asian hotel bars---an enhanced sense of bathos, an ironic dry-smile sorrow, a sharpened sense of distance and loss.

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

out of the endless bathos

The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January

whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion

the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures

What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

his frames of reference zigzag wildly from bathos to profundity

For instance, in his prose poem “Meditations in an Emergency,” after submitting various lyric gestures and attitudes to his bathetic reconstructions

Mizoguchi is apt to seem the more borderline bathetictoday, Naruse the more realistic

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

Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies

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

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.

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

Even the spy’s sexiness is bathetic