What's the difference between bathetic and bathos?

Bathetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the character of bathos.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They held their televised press conference outside the White House in a snowstorm, a nature-made bathetic fallacy.)
  • (2) Going in the other direction, this gridded tablecloth has a rather more bathetic and English character.
  • (3) Townsend tells me in passing, bathetically, that the prison's main purpose has never been to produce quality radio, so she just has to accept it when prisoners get moved on in the middle of their course.
  • (4) In the novel's final section, "Free Women 5", Lessing gives us its quiet, bathetic conclusion.
  • (5) Finally, there are all the knowing literary references: Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Ealing comedy, Michael Frayn, Andrew Marvell; there are quotes from everyone from war reporter Nick Tomalin to Shakespeare’s Tempest – a potentially bathetic game for a novel that has the two clunkiest opening sentences I’ve seen for a long time, but on the whole he gets away with it.
  • (6) The emphasis was always on the comedy, the foibles and peccadilloes of the characters, a gentle cynicism about the ways of the world, a joy in puns, a love of irritating footnotes, a relish for the bathetic puncturing of the bombastic – and above all an irrepressible and infectious silliness.
  • (7) Her home turf is bathetic provincial comedy, of the type found on flyers for pizza takeaways, or in the Victoria Woodish tale of a motorcyclist with three Creme Eggs in his gob, suffocating under his crash helmet on the A63.
  • (8) When reactions might be anything from acute distress to sniggers, those who want Auschwitz to educate new generations face a continual struggle with visitor behaviour: not too bathetic, or fanciful, yet not too remote, either.

Bathos


Definition:

  • (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At sufficiently high laser intensities, a photostationary mixture of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and its red-shifted (batho) photoproduct (K) is obtained.
  • (2) The Batho power-law formula is in common use in many treatment planning systems to correct for the presence of lungs and other inhomogeneities.
  • (3) Reirradiation of the batho product with light at wavelengths longer than 520 nm yielded a mixture composed of presumably 9- or 11-cis forms of retro-gamma-rhodopsin.
  • (4) It was converted to the lumi intermediate through a metastable species, the BL intermediate, which has never been detected in Rh(9) at low temperature and whose absorption maximum was at shorter wavelengths than that of the batho intermediate.
  • (5) The lung dose correction was calculated using the methods of Batho or ratio of TMR.
  • (6) On irradiation with blue light at -191 degrees C, 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin was converted to another bathochromic intermediate that was different in absorption spectrum from batho-10-F-rhodopsin.
  • (7) For high energies, however, it is more accurate in the build-up region than other commonly used correction techniques such as the ratio-of-TMR or Batho methods.
  • (8) It is suggested that in 5,6-diH-ISORHO, a primary bathorhodopsin intermediate analogous to the bathorhodopsin intermediate (BATHO) of the native pigment, rapidly converts to a blue-shifted intermediate (BSI, lambda max 430 nm) which is not observed after photolysis of native rhodopsin.
  • (9) Based on these results, it was infered that the formation of batho-rhodopsin is due to photoisomerization of the chromophoric retinal of rhodopsin and is not due to translocation of a proton on the ring or on the side chain from C-6 to C-8 of the chromophoric retinal to the Schiff-base nitrogen.
  • (10) It is shown that when BATHO is formed its transition dipole moves away from the original cis band transition dipole direction.
  • (11) Upon irradiation with red light at -191 degrees C, batho-12-F-rhodopsin was converted to a mixture of 12-F-rhodopsin and 9-cis-12-F-rhodopsin like that of the natural bathorhodopsin, whereas batho-10-F-rhodopsin was not converted to 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin but only to 10-F-rhodopsin.
  • (12) The angles between both these transition dipoles and those of the long-wave-length bands of BATHO, BSI, and LUMI are also determined.
  • (13) "Track was originally offered to Christina Aguilera ," continued the subheading, with a detectable note of bathos.
  • (14) It is proposed that the rate of the BATHO to BSI transition is limited by the relaxation of the strained all-trans-retinal chromophore within a tight protein environment.
  • (15) It is concluded that in all of the pigments the results are consistent with the formation of an equilibrium between BATHO and BSI, which subsequently decays on a nanosecond time scale at room temperature to a lumirhodopsin intermediate.
  • (16) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
  • (17) These results suggest that the batho-lumi transition of iodopsin at low temperature is likely to be inhibited by the Cl- bound to the protein moiety of iodopsin, while at room temperature the Cl- bound to iodopsin could be released on the conversion process of batho- to lumiiodopsin.
  • (18) Inactivation by chelating agents such as o-phenanthroline or batho-phenanthroline sulfonic acid occurs only in the presence of reducing agents (mercaptoethanol and ascorbic acid).
  • (19) The photoproduct produced by the irradiation of AcRh(9) had an absorption spectrum red shifted from the original AcRh(9) and was identified as the batho intermediate of AcRh(9).
  • (20) Yesterday's push by Barclays into South Africa - by spending rand 33bn (£2.9bn) to buy a 60% stake in local banking group Absa - has the enthusiastic endorsement of the local black economic empowerment group Batho Bonke and the approval of the government.

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