In this memoir, the child of American white nationalists chronicles a remarkable personal journey towards awareness and ...

There are few more bathetic sights than Kendall at his bleak 40th bash, attended solely by liggers (the Roys don’t have real friends), in an ill judged, $7,000 metallic Gucci bomber jacket. Kendall’s ...

In this early comedy, regarded as something of an anomaly because of its bathetic, unresolved ending, Ferdinand, the king of Navarre (Abiola Owokoniran) and his three favorite noblemen (Luke Thompson, ...

Eventually, the unseemly scramble to leave proved an anti-climax, bathetic and ludicrous; which is probably the reason, ...

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a motion to vacate the speakership that could produce the same bathetic coda to Johnson’s leadership career. Indeed, as Congress made its ...

It feels almost sacrilegious (and certainly bathetic) even to consider that César (1861), an abortive and absurd etching of a ...

Aside from obvious contenders (Lincoln, Les Mis, Argo), two of TV's most bathetic shows each earned nods. Smash and The Newsroom purport to pull back the curtain on the high-stakes worlds of ...

But bathetic contrasts puncture those emotional moments, like ending “Come on baby, dig!” – a chaotic and nihilistic interrogation of approaching death – with the softboi quip “I should text her”.

but lines such as “his whole being radiated a distinctive air through his fresh eau de cologne” are not just bathetic but suggest that either the book’s translator Anne McLean was not up to ...

But the book’s opening lines hint at a more bathetic explanation. Perhaps he wasn’t the conscious agent of history. Perhaps he was just tetchy because it was boiling outside and 19th-century ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Villa Borghese”, the famous landscaped gardens celebrated in slashes of rococo pink and sandy yellow ...