(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.
Soppy
Definition:
(a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
(2) Thirteen years later Raca has written an account of her own experiences, which cannot be described as remotely soppy.
(3) The author seems to revel in it, killing off popular, morally spotless characters knowing his readers (with their soppy, modern notions of fairness) won't see it coming.
(4) She took her job as an assistant school principal extremely seriously and had no time for what she saw as the soppy self-indulgence of her husband's approach to things.
(5) Or "Soppy chocolate labrador frolicking in babbling brook weekend".
(6) This isn’t down to some soppy benevolence on the part of TV producers.
(7) Fast-forward, and Charli XCX is sharing massive US No 1 hits with Iggy Azalea (the super-catchy Fancy) – and getting songs on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack (the pugnaciously soppy Boom Clap).
(8) Supposed to be a full-on face and this one you walk away from.” Derogatory remarks are made about most of their co-defendants, whom they refer to as either a “soppy cunt” or a “fucking idiot”.
(9) (“This is so bogus!” he exclaimed, when they asked him to stand in front of an old haunt and look soppy.)
(10) Boring, pretentious and a bit soppy - like a printed, rhyming version of Bono.
(11) All of this wasteful soppy girly stuff interferes with the male scientist’s duty to pursue truth with a single-minded purpose.
(12) "He didn't want soppy ," he says of Leonard Bernstein, with whom he argued over the lyrics of West Side Story .
(13) Not so long ago when other people wrote words like that I would roll my eyes at their soppy bullshit.
(14) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
(15) But even my soppy eyes are clear enough to see that 90s style was a decade-long mistake that desperately does not need reviving.
(16) They're also – rather amazingly, given that they've just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary – still as soppy about each other as two lovebirds.
(17) They're what our government seems to regard as soppy humanities, barely worthy of inclusion in the school curriculum.
(18) Stannard wrote of the friendship as Spark "learning to love again", but Jardine thinks this is a bit soppy.