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...There’s a bathos to it.” Melanie Cook of Norwich Business Improvement District defends the scheme. “It’s all born of trying to make things better,” she says....
...There’s always been a sense of bathos attached to the man, whether it’s kind of doing parkour in a very half-assed way, or whether it’s promoting himself....
...Melfi — who, to be fair, didn’t write it — clearly sets out to subvert the platitudinous issue-movie genre with a healthy dose of irreverence, but the ensuing mix of slapstick and bathos is excruciating....
...There’s plenty of pathos to go with the bathos. Trevor (Chris Leask) has built an ingenious set, a large book whose pages (usually) open to form vivid pop-up scenes....
...The most brilliant of comics was also the genre’s master of pity and bathos, making him the right man to talk through our wretched times....
...Among the neo-Roman grandeur was the bathos of washing-machine tariffs and soyabean shipments....
...Robert Kagan’s old line about peace-loving Europeans and martial Americans always simplified a more ambiguous reality....
...Court, first-time Indian feature maker Chaitanya Tamhane’s funny-cautionary picture of justice at work in Mumbai, is a Robert Altmanish human comedy....
...Andrew D Roberts London NW3, UK...
...The concluding volume of Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy — as with any novel determinedly shackled to high history — covers known ground....
...… Letters in response to this editorial: Striving for gravitas, sliding into bathos / From Andrew D Roberts Pope Francis may just be upholding Vatican policy / From Marc-Antoine Hamet...
...He is Robert Fielding, a divisional director. Batman has found his Robin. The quality of Quindell’s accounting was recently attacked by cartoonily-named short seller Gotham City....
...And keyboardist Cory Henry and drummer Robert “Sput” Searight would stand out in any company....
...As Robert Frost almost said: good defences make good neighbours. It is hard to keep up with delivery services in modern culture. A new form of “post” comes through the door daily....
...The book is part comic travelogue, part meditation on landscape in the mould of Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places....
...While there may have been moments of bathos in Milwaukee, the trip to Iraq has historic overtones – the official end of the US’s combat mission in the country....
...The women’s three-week strike is not the most momentous event of that tumultuous summer of 1968, which saw demonstrations against the Vietnam war in both Britain and the US, the assassination of Robert Kennedy...
...There is nothing worse than aphorisms that go wrong, filled with a clunking self-satisfaction and bathos....
...But while leftist photographers like Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa were using Leicas to capture documentary-style images, the Nazis were using them for more sinister purposes....
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