Sentence:  Paul Sexton, presenting The Queen of Soul: the Legend of Aretha (Radio 2), had a bouncy introduction that bordered on the <WSD>Partridgean</WSD>. Over two nights, he explained, the programmes would explore Franklin's move "from the church to the charts". They would, he added, "say RESPECT to a true original". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Self-important but bathetic; unable to distinguish the meaningful from the trivial and therefore prone to absurdity.