What's the difference between bathetic and hokey?

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.

Hokey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EU hokey-cokey: in, out, shake it all about (not necessarily in that order) | Letter Read more “It is interesting that both sides want to adopt Boris,” one Johnson ally said.
  • (2) Justice League is supposedly due in just two years' time, and we still don't have the standalone Wonder Woman movie required to bring that rather hokey old character into the burgeoning "darker" Nolanesque take on the DC universe.
  • (3) Last May’s bizarre resignation hokey cokey – was he out or was he in?
  • (4) Would MPs from Scotland be brought back in what a Scottish Labour MP George Foulkes called a kind of 'legislative hokey-cokey', to vote just on these particular clauses?
  • (5) Nick Clegg is adopting what we might call the hokey-cokey position.
  • (6) Two years prior to this, Kearney condemned the, er… hokey cokey .
  • (7) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
  • (8) Rise began a little hokey, and no one is going to accuse Freida Pinto of giving a good performance, but take state-of-the-art motion capturing, ambiguous moral culpability, a few bananas and you have a thrilling action film.
  • (9) Admittedly a little hokey, as films about the Irish by the English tend to be, it categorically did not deserve the backlash it received: 'The art it represents belongs to that school of very classy calendar art supported by airlines, insurance corporations and a few enlightened barber shops.
  • (10) But as a Cambridge University study has shown, the process is likely to prove little more than a game of Euro hokey cokey, with the risk that Britain ends up compromising its ability to police international crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking.
  • (11) 9.51pm BST 90+2 min: … after the ball hokey-cokeys in and out of the box, it eventually drops to Sergio Ramos who can't make a clean connection from eight yards out.
  • (12) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
  • (13) That Easton crossover, from local girl made good, through the agency of hokey telly and novelty-song pop charts, to global star, riding high in the Billboard charts, the chosen workmate of this extraordinary creature, Prince?
  • (14) Game stories are often pretty hokey, but they're compelling because we're in control.
  • (15) Photograph: SA Mathieson The last event is held alongside Rhymetime, whose infant participants fill the library with Hokey Cokey.
  • (16) and hapless cod romance, interspersed with hokey landmine photo-ops and scenic cultural detours through Lahore".
  • (17) The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, branded Robinson’s move as “hokey-cokey” politics with one leg in the devolved government and one leg out.
  • (18) I know it sounds a bit hokey, but we’re closer to nature.
  • (19) Ed Miliband mocked the prime minister for a "weekend Hokey Cokey".
  • (20) Given the way Warner allowed Entourage to lampoon the king of Atlantis a few years back, you might think the studio would be loth to include that slightly hokey old character in the more realistic universe it launched with last year's Man of Steel.

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