The song lyrics are written from the perspective of a war veteran, containing the line " wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir " and tracking the bathetic progress of the former soldier's war medal : " It sells at market stalls / Parades Milan catwalks ".
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In a tart essay in Harper's magazine last month, Harris lamented the rise of AIDS products-- from teddy bears sporting red ribbons to the bathetic HBO movie of " And the Band Played On "-- that sentimentalize the epidemic and turn its patients into beatific poster children.
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As revelations both fateful and temporal unfold, the whole thing abruptly turns into a rehash of " The Sweet Hereafter " _ a movie that hardly cries for cloning, and particularly not a clone that goes full-speed down the road to bathetic melodrama " Hereafter " so thoughtfully avoided.
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This see-sawing between the sublime and the bathetic & mdash; from " simple and happy " to a family movie; from joys and transports to " rubbery lips "; from luxuries and yachts to " ten bucks on the bird " & mdash; is an example of the effects that Collier's genius could conjure.
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After releasing her first EP, " Strange Cacti ", and a debut album, " Half Way Home ", on Bathetic Records, Olsen signed with Jagjaguwar, ahead of her first full-band record, " Burn Your Fire for No Witness ", which was released on 17 February 2014.
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Viewers had to await the studio host John Saunders'explanation; however, it was Jackson's role to explain it from Pasadena, rather than spend some of his last moments on the air reading a bathetic letter by Fritz Crisler, Michigan's coach 50 years ago, the last time a Rose Bowl victory led to a national championship.
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Gardner McFall in " The New York Times " in 1999 opined " In this novel, which was a finalist for the 1997 Booker Prize, Madeleine St . John shapes what might have been a bathetic story into a brisk, sophisticated and artful narrative buoyed by an ironic use of the religious imagery of hell, salvation and resurrection ."
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In a mixed review, Michael Hann of " The Guardian " felt that the album's " expert pastiche of classic soul " lacks a " sense of passionate involvement . . . the very thing that lifts retro soul beyond pastiche . " Chris Martins of " The A . V . Club " found its songs formulaic and criticized the band as " bathetic and actorly ".
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In sum, what Clinton did with Monica and afterword was, to go alphabetically : asinine, bathetic, clumsy, deplorable, empty, fatuous, gross, humiliating, injudicious, jerky, knuckleheaded, lame, mendacious, naive, oleaginous, piggish, queasy, ridiculous, stupid, tacky, unsalubrious, vexatious, weasely, xanthic-tinted ( yellow ), yahoo-ish, and, ultimately, zany.
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Michael Taylor, for example, argues, " A fiendish provenance replaces a divine one in [ Act 5, Scene 5 ], a scene that reduces Joan to a comic, bathetic dependency on shifty representatives of the underworld . " In line with this thinking, it is worth pointing out that in the 1981 " BBC Television Shakespeare " adaptation, Joan, and the French in general, are treated predominantly as comic figures.
