bathetically

An intriguing first two sentences, there, that drop bathetically into Amis-père-like reactionary noodling.

Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

I've yet to see such a prose exercise avoid coming off as unnecessarily...and, at times, bathetically defensive.

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).

Cover to Cover 2008

The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked).

Cover to Cover 2008

I've yet to see such a prose exercise avoid coming off as unnecessarily...and, at times, bathetically defensive.

THOUGHTS ABOUT JUDGING POETRY (#11) 2010

An intriguing first two sentences, there, that drop bathetically into Amis-père-like reactionary noodling.

Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Ruby's voice was bathetically mournful, She must be ripped; at a late party she was bound to be.

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

Nowadays, when nostalgia is big business and every sports milestone is hyped, such an event would be covered exhaustively and bathetically.

David Margolick: John Updike, Hall of Famer 2009

It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rus Bowden 2009

It's a nicely executed slice of bitterness, in which the speaker's pretensions and Romantic hyperbole are bathetically stripped away by the final snarling couplet.

Great Regulars: Bruce Smith's "After Millay" was published Rus Bowden 2009