April 30, 2008

Bathetic ***

bathetic



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a. (形容詞 adjective)

          1.    平凡的,陳腐的
          2.    【語】頓降(bathos)的


Dictionary.com

–adjective 
displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.  


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

bathos, pathos (nn.), bathetic, pathetic (adj.) 
   
In style, bathos (pronounced BAI-thahs) is the sudden intrusion of the commonplace, the trite, or the trivial into the midst of elevated, high-toned matter. Specifically bathos is fake, hypocritical

or overdone imitation of pathos (first syllable pronounced PAI- or PA-; second syllable pronounced -thahs or -thos), which is an emotion evoking pity and compassion

The adjectives bathetic and pathetic rhyme. All four words are Standard. 


mister_lonely_ver3 The background is a nondescript go-cart track lined with brightly colored tires, the sky above a billowing blue haze. Time slows to a crawl as the bike circles toward the camera. All is silent save for Bobby Vinton's bathetic croon over a featherbed of strings: "Lone-leee... I'm Mister Lone-leeee... "


see banal trite








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