| With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative. |
| Here a sentence beginning with an absolute claim and building in its rhythm toward an eloquent climax deflates in the bathetic surprise of a harsh and inelegant monosyllable. |
| In a bathetic last stanza, the parish clerk comes along and cuts down the twining branches. |
| I HELD fire on Barack Obama's bathetic speech from the Oval Office. |
| That has resulted in the bathetic spectacle of the once-omnipotent PRI asking its supporters for a peso a day to help it pay the fine. |
| The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride. |
