bathetic

1 "That's not a man!" he gasped, in what was obviously one of world drama's great bathetic lines.

2 In the ode, however, the "asides" are spoken aloud, bathetically interrupting the elevated poem the speaker is presumably trying, and failing, to write.

3 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.

4 He is vexed by the discrepancy between the streamlined facade of Italian railways and the bathetic complications lurking beneath.

5 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.

6 The dictionary was intended to be the bathetic conclusion to their futile journey through scholarship: copying out the parroted worldviews of their contemporaries.

7 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.

8 It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global.

9 Taken together, her tribulations have the makings of bathetic melodrama.

10 Rather it captures a musical moment so succinctly that pressing play is like an instantaneous trip through time without the bathetic highs and lows of a stroll down memory lane.

11 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.

12 I can't promise acrobatics, but there's not much else you can rule out with Key, whose gadfly hour features bathetic verse and Russian song, films, standup subversion and play.

13 In the past century of fiction, the middle-aged male protagonist has sprawled and rutted his way to a kind of bathetic greatness in the hands of Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow.

14 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.”

15 It's a brilliantly bathetic vehicle for what in another context would be just a furious harangue.

16 This bathetic prelude is perhaps meant to communicate the man’s impudence, but it also readies the audience for a film of modest ambitions.

17 Doc Brown pointed up the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "British rap" with a series of bathetic local lyrics.

18 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”.

19 There’s much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic.

20 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.

1 虚伪

hollow-hearted unveracious false conventional synthetic hollow counterfeit deceptive untrue lying fictitious deceitful make-believe insincere pretended untruthful two-faced truthless falsely lie devil falsehood pretense falsity untruth dissimulation falseness postiche inveracity

2 平庸的

mean predictable mediocre small-time plebeian middlebrow bog standard

3 平凡

platitudinarian even common character stock garden ordinary pedestrian slick trivial beaten commonplace indifferent lowly unimportant unremarkable earthbound prosaic matter-of-fact homespun ornery quotidian undistinguished garden-variety workaday platitudinous truistic ordinarily prosaism prose mediocrity platitude triviality bathos tameness prosiness prosaicism run-of-mill small usual everyday literal mediocre mundane barren uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill featureless humdrum second-rate bread-and-butter C toneless characterless singsong prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism banality mundanity commonness homeliness stodginess trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat

4 虚伪的

hollow-hearted unveracious false conventional synthetic hollow counterfeit deceptive untrue lying fictitious deceitful make-believe insincere pretended untruthful two-faced truthless

5 突降法

bathos

6 陈腐的

platitudinarian old stock tired hack fossil pedestrian slick beaten commonplace stale prehistoric worn corny musty banal trite well-worn worn-out crusted mouldy threadbare hackneyed mildewed hackney fusty outworn platitudinous prehistorical bromidic hard-worked rinky-dink twice told

7 顿降法

bathos

8 陈腐

platitudinarian old stock tired hack fossil pedestrian slick beaten commonplace stale prehistoric worn corny musty banal trite well-worn worn-out crusted mouldy threadbare hackneyed mildewed hackney fusty outworn platitudinous prehistorical bromidic hard-worked cobweb platitude banality bathos rinky-dink obsoletism fossilize banalize twice told

9 平凡的

platitudinarian even common character stock garden ordinary pedestrian slick trivial beaten commonplace indifferent lowly unimportant unremarkable earthbound prosaic matter-of-fact homespun ornery quotidian undistinguished garden-variety workaday platitudinous truistic run-of-mill small usual everyday literal mediocre prose mundane barren uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill featureless humdrum second-rate bread-and-butter C toneless characterless singsong prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat

10 平庸

mean predictable mediocre small-time plebeian middlebrow indifferently mediocrity bog standard