A musician losing her hearing over the course of a novel, like a painter going blind or a ballerina succumbing to gradual paralysis, perilously skirts the bathetic.
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Right now we have a bathetic and maudlin article focused on the person, and a complete absence of any analysis of the critical issue of systematic institutional failure.
23.
I might as well just admit it : I wanted so much to hate " The Jewels of Tessa Kent, " to find it bathetic and overdone.
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The album falls victim to the same bathetic love songs that cripple every Dion project, and the quasi-adventurous production gives way to drippy folk-pop balladry ."
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As Victorian scholar Daniel Karlin has noted, " That Haggard's style is frequently bathetic or clumsy cannot be denied; but the matter is not so easily settled ".
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Best of all is the quintet's version of the Intermezzo from " Cavalleria Rusticana, " which becomes haunting rather than bathetic when played by so small an ensemble.
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He has footage of Pitino, then of Kentucky, in a bathetic locker room, telling his players, " Don't let this game define your lives ."
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After his fall, the man with the hands-flying, jaws-working, piggie-eyes-darting style plunged into a deep depression, often dissolving in bathetic tears.
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Considering the megaton angst that justified its construction, though, the reason for the shutdown seemed oddly bathetic : the place was not fireproof, and would have cost too much to fix.
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True, his early'60s collages of burned shoes and dirt, called " Monument to Buchenwald " and " Children of Treblinka, " are bad jokes, bathetic and trite.
