Sentence:  Well, it's wet and it's miserable on the day that Leicester City's footballers have been dreading for weeks, for this is the day that they have to tackle this: "The Hill," intones a somewhat <WSD>Partridgean</WSD> local TV news reporter in the early 1980s, on an old clip of the players in question embarking on their pre-season training. The camera promptly pulls back to reveal our man on the spot in a decidedly elevated position; the "this" in question is one of three giant mountains of muck and rubble on a patch of waste ground. 
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.