Or bringing to mind a Douglas Sirk heroine's bathetic glow from the 1940s.
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There's much that appears self-serious, even as it relishes the twee and bathetic.
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Perhaps the most damaging deformation belongs to the all-conquering stage musical "Les Miz," which turns Monsieur and Madame Thénardier — the novel's most egregious characters — into bathetic comic relief.
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Defeated, rejected, upended, forlorn, left for deadwith mangled rosettes, runners, ferrules, ribs obscenely spread,the classic, the pocket, the bubble, golf, and automaticall died in the usual fray, both bathetic and tragic.
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Meanwhile, he piles on the drama in implausible and bathetic ways: a death row inmate who survives a botched execution; an autistic family member who unknowingly passes along deadly information; several seizures.
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When a major character is caught in a lie, the show lets that revelation carry weight, and be more than a mere plot twist—and then moves on before it gets bathetic.
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There is something beautifully bathetic about D'Arrigo's hollow-bodied forms stretching their folded, twisted, knotted and squeezed carcasses across space, as if they are striving to become sentient beings but are unable to do so.
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Filled with both poignant and bathetic reflections on the artists' experiences of womanhood and domesticity, the work offered critiques of social expectations of women that today seem like a litany of familiar — if still entirely relevant — grievances.
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The new exhibition opens with the bathetic "Ego": photographs of the artist's hands posed in echo of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam," here printed onto two sheets of cheap, rumpled paper, and stuck to the wall with Blu-Tack.
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As with those avatars of bathetic yearning, Day6's ballads, so huge and soaring and plaintive, are kitsch masterpieces — the magnificent "I Smile," its solemn, arpeggiated guitar chime ringing out through the air, flaunts heartbreak the way a jock might bare a set of washboard abs.
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" (Turns out he was adopted; in the Marvel comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, his birth father is the powerful telepath and founder of the X-Men, Professor Charles Xavier.) As Amy faces frightening glimpses of his alternate personalities, he switches over to bathetic pleading, reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in "The Shining": "Please.
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In its moments of grandeur I hear post-rock greats like A Winged Victory for the Sullen, and smaller moments remind me of the lonely Sandy Bull or even Sufjan Stevens' more outré impulses (all of which basically means its a worthy companion to the solitary vision of Appalachia in Jenks Miller's solo work or Villages' earthy instrumentals on Bathetic Records).
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Graves, p.192. "Powys's vision is not tragic but essentially comic- grotesque".Easingwood, p. 60. The final words of Wolf Solent — "Well, I shall have a cup of tea" — have been described by Peter Easingwood as "notoriously bathetic".
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Harper's was the more bathetic. It showed a haggard sufferer, hands clasped as if in prayer, staring upwards. Light illumines his face and the wall immediately behind, but the rest of the cell is in shadows. Its title was 'Hon.
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Strange Cacti is the debut EP by American singer-songwriter and musician Angel Olsen. Originally released on cassette in 2010, it was later reissued by Bathetic Records in 2011. The record consists of six tracks of Americana and indie folk, featuring only voice and guitar.
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Hamilton Charles Palmer LLB (died c. 19 January 1880) was a lawyer in the early days of the colony of South Australia, remembered for his year as a master at one of Adelaide's private schools in 1860 and for a bathetic political candidature ten years later.
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It's one of my favourite songs, but I didn't like my version of it." Bowie concurred, calling the Beatles' original version "very watery" and wanting to "hammer the hell out of it." Bowie's cover of "Across the Universe" has received predominantly negative reviews from music critics and biographers. Douglas Wolk of Pitchfork calls it "the album's one genuine embarrassment, Vegas-y and bathetic.
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Eventually, Godofredo's feelings reach a peak of tension: and while he experiences his own dark night of the soul, his friends come to a collective decision on his behalf, offering a bathetic release from desperate heroics. And so Godofredo returns to his humdrum life but on re-encountering his wife at the opera, they are reconciled over his inability to wind up the family clock.
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Three years before his death, Walker Evans asked Hill to serve as executor of his estate. On Evans' death in 1975, Hill took as a goal the expanded reading of Evans' work. The most common perception was, at best, a bathetic record of the Great Depression in the rural South. For Hill and many others, Evans' work rose high above that limited appraisal to be examined as a more universal statement surpassing the specifics of that time and place.
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The initial reaction to the album has been generally favorable. The Guardian awarded the album full marks, comparing the group to both The Fall and Half Man Half Biscuit. Their glowing review of the album concluded with the line: "Full of the kind of bathetic genius English pop used to excel in, Art Brut are life-affirming - and are worth 500 of almost every other new guitar band." NME gave the album 8/10, believing that the group seemed "poised on the brink of mainstream acceptance".
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Today, bathos refers to rhetorical anticlimax—an abrupt transition from a lofty style or grand topic to a common or vulgar one—occurring either accidentally (through artistic ineptitude) or intentionally (for comic effect). Intentional bathos appears in satirical genres such as burlesque and mock epic. "Bathos" or "bathetic" is also used for similar effects in other branches of the arts, such as musical passages marked ridicolosamente. In film, bathos may appear in a contrast cut intended for comic relief or be produced by an accidental jump cut.
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However, they decide that it would be better to cry in luxury. Irwin observes: This see-sawing between the sublime and the bathetic--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"--is an example of the effects that Collier's genius could conjure. The story descends through bathos to absurd tragedy when Alice and Irwin secretly plot to murder the other in order to be the one alive to enjoy the tears and the luxury.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2017 in Chicago, Illinois, 2017 Olsen performing at the Sinclair (2016). After releasing her first EP, Strange Cacti, and a debut studio 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 February 17, 2014. The closing track of the album, "Windows", was featured in the final episode of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why in 2017. Olsen's third studio album, My Woman, was released on September 2, 2016.
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Novelist and critic Dale Peck unfavorably reviewed Moody's The Black Veil in The New Republic, a review so harsh it has become infamous in literary circles. "They [writer-on-writer critical reviews] linger in the critical memory, like Dale Peck’s infamous charge in the New Republic that Rick Moody was, and we quote, "the worst writer of his generation". That review was crucial to a buzzed- about manifesto decrying nasty "snark", penned by another novelist, Heidi Julavits, in the Believer. 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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According to Dotty, the conquering of the moon revealed the human race—once scientifically and spiritually the center of the universe—as "little, local."Playbill: Leveaux and Company Mount a Moral Trapeze as Stoppard's Jumpers Opens on Broadway A significant element of the play is George's unavailing efforts to define 'Good' and other philosophical abstractions, in which he demonstrates his foolishness and lack of connection with the real world. The bathetic climax comes when George, firing an arrow to demonstrate Zeno's paradox, accidentally shoots dead a pet hare he uses to model the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise. Blinded by grief, he steps on and crushes the tortoise which forms the other part of the demonstration.
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Entertainment Weekly editor David Browne wrote a mixed review "The presentation cries out empress of overkill goes alt-rock, but the truth is much less engaging" and said that album "does stand as a marked departure from her usual fare. Forsaking orchestras and pop gloss, she and her guys offer up reverby twang in "Tout l'or des hommes," a slide-guitar romp in "Ne bouge pas," and enough mopey, semi-unplugged arrangements to make you think they just discovered Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love". For her part, Dion sounds more restrained than on her English-language extravaganzas. 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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While poetaster has always been a negative appraisal of a poet's skills, rhymester (or rhymer) and versifier have held ambiguous meanings depending on the commentator's opinion of a writer's verse. Versifier is often used to refer to someone who produces work in verse with the implication that while technically able to make lines rhyme they have no real talent for poetry. Rhymer on the other hand is usually impolite despite attempts to salvage the reputation of rhymers such as the Rhymers' Club and Rhymer being a common last name. The faults of a poetaster frequently include errors or lapses in their work's meter, badly rhyming words which jar rather than flow, oversentimentality, too much use of the pathetic fallacy and unintentionally bathetic choice of subject matter.
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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.""Books" by Gardner McFall The New York Times, 24 January 1999 The book was re-issuedThe Essence of the Thing - Text Publishing in 2013 as part of the Text Publishing Text Classics series. At the time of the publication of that edition Gay Lynch wrote in Transnational Literature: "The prose is spare, supple and elegant, and constructed for the most part in dialogue that, occasionally, falls into a mechanical 'jolly hockey-sticks' register, with frequent play on the words 'whizzy' and the suffix 'ish'...Nevertheless, St John is a fine writer and this book is no grungy Australian bildungsroman; it is more a comedy of manners, perhaps or a Roman à clef."Transnational Literature, Vol.
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