The main drawback to these and other plot turns is their abruptness everything unfolds too quickly, too exaggeratedly, with a score ( by Christopher Gunning ) that's far too heavy on bathetic violins.
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We live in an era of sharp reaction against the austere modernism of the 1960s and'70s, and the City Opera's selections reflected that reaction, sometimes to the point of bathetic conservatism.
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The hoary tropes of melodrama he embraces are no less bathetic than those Douglas Sirk unironically employed in 1950s Technicolor soaps like " Written on the Wind " and " Imitation of Life ."
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Peck began the review with the sentence " Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation, " arguing that Moody's writing is " pretentious, muddled, derivative, [ and ] bathetic ."
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Compatibility Standards ", submitting " that very page " to W3C's HTML validator shows bathetic failure, as the page lacks a doctype declaration, contains Microsoft proprietary attributes, and worse.
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At one point, the LAT makes a bathetic and rather yuppyish reference to Clinton's role, saying that thus far, he has " invested more than 55 hours " in the summit talks.
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But we live in a time when infamy sells, when sin slides painlessly into redemption if your confession is loud enough and bathetic enough, and when a president asks the people to vote for him because he is easily triangulated.
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William Philpott referred to the series, by name, as " bathetic " and felt it part of a " post-facto generalisation of the nature of their war " that " sucked in " even veterans of the conflict.
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He might sing a blazingly bathetic " Danny Boy " ( that Irish ballad so beloved by black singers ); he might sing an Elvisy " Reet Petite " or a lavish, vibrato-laden " Lonely Teardrops ."
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In collaboration with D . B . Wyndham Lewis he compiled " The Stuffed Owl ", an anthology of bad ( mainly inappropriate and bathetic ) verse, a volume reisssued by New York Review Books Classics in 2003 with an introduction by Billy Collins.
