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Even within the narrow limits of royal baby tradition, it is surely more traditional for those connected with the crown to opt for what is known, rather bathetically in the circumstances, as a “home birth”.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2019

“There is,” he adds bathetically, “something very special about this painting.”

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

Elsewhere, the rhetorical effort of making oneself clear proves bathetically futile.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2015

In the ode, however, the "asides" are spoken aloud, bathetically interrupting the elevated poem the speaker is presumably trying, and failing, to write.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2010

Actually, his image-and-message crew tested a number of catchphrases: "Building a Bridge to the Future," "A 21st Century Agenda" and, candidly if bathetically, "Bridge to a Second Term."

From Time Magazine Archive