Meaning of bathetic | Babel Free

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Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.

Examples

“The fall⟳ is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush⟳ degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.”

“To ask⟳ what it is that Don Quixote himself believes is to enter⟳ the visionary centre of his story. This curious blend of the sublime and the bathetic does not come⟳ again until Kafka, another pupil of Cervantes, would compose stories like⟳ "The Hunter Gracchus" and "A Country Doctor".”

“It is possible that Shillibeer's bathetic end⟳ is the reason⟳ buses did not become⟳ universally known as 'Shillibeers'. Some operators had called their buses Shillibeers.”

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