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Word For The Day, Thursday, November 1, 2012 - bathetic
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| 1 November 2012
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Posted on 11/01/2012 4:40:58 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
bathetic \buh-THET-ik\, adjective
Displaying or characterized by insincere emotions: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.
Example sentences:
The bathetic quality of "instant cliche" endings is to some extent counterbalanced by the kind of ending which combines plot-contortion with climactic enlightenment…
-- Heterocosms, Heterocosms
Attempts to capture the awe and pain of dying can often, alas, come out sounding either bathetic or satiric.
-- Nancy Kress, Characters, Emotion and Viewpoint
Etymology:
Based on the more common word pathetic, bathetic entered English in the 1830s. It comes from the Greek word bathos which meant "depth."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
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Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:42:30 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:43:35 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Obama’s bathetic tour of the devastated Jersey Shore looked wimpy, rather than Presidential yesterday.
To: secret garden
Christie’s bathetic pandering to the “Lyin King” was pathetic. Even the democrat governors of neighboring states did not succumb to the temptation.
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:52:12 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: Loud Mime
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:52:18 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
A for you, F for politics as usual.
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:53:33 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: left that other site
A for you and I agree completely. It was unnecessary to get funding to rebuild.
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:54:43 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Our bathetic POTUS visited New Jersey yesterday....
....he enjoyed a swim.
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:57:13 AM PDT
by
tioga
(Obama 1st term brought to you by the letter O and the # 16tril. Will not be renewed.)
To: secret garden
The Obama Regime: from the “Audacity of Hope” to the bathos of despair in four short years!
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posted on
11/01/2012 4:59:30 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: secret garden
The Obama campaign has descended into bathos.
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:02:52 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
("Government creates nothing" - Romney, 2012)
To: secret garden
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:08:18 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Winning is Everything.)
To: secret garden
It seems the pathetic Sen Bob Menendez, D-NJ, champion of women's rights and equal pay, has proven a bathetic candidate since now 2 women in the Dominican Republic have come forth to exclaim that not only did he pay them (separately) for sex, but that he underpaid them. He promised $500 each, but only gave them $100 for their efforts.
Senator! Underpaying minority women to do a job that American women wouldn't do. Tsk tsk tsk!!
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:21:01 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: theDentist
Sen. Menendez, D/NJ, was interviewed and said the Secret Service men involved in shameful trysts with S.American hookers should be fired. Will he fire himself?
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:22:57 AM PDT
by
tioga
(Obama 1st term brought to you by the letter O and the # 16tril. Will not be renewed.)
To: tioga
A+ for you. Did you see
this?
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:26:53 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: ConorMacNessa
They are audacious, salacious, and not at all perspicacious. A for you.
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:31:21 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
I did. That was awesome. I am still confident Obama is going down in a landslide.
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:31:33 AM PDT
by
tioga
(Obama 1st term brought to you by the letter O and the # 16tril. Will not be renewed.)
To: agere_contra
Let their descent continue. A for you.
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:32:29 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
...this was funny....
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:32:43 AM PDT
by
tioga
(Obama 1st term brought to you by the letter O and the # 16tril. Will not be renewed.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
11/01/2012 5:34:52 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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