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Pathos
"Pathos" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The pathos is too much.
I was intrigued by the pathos in your work.
What is this pathos for?
What is all this pathos for?
Yes, you know, I'm a little fond of pathos.
Okay, I'll give up this pathos.
Beneath her mist of yellow hair her dark-grey eyes looked out pathetically, with the sort of pathos that means nothing in particular—the grace of an indefinite sorrow.
These poems might nearly all have been written by one man, were it possible for one man to vary from absolute platitude to something like genius, so homogeneous is their tone: everywhere do we meet the same simplicity of diction struggling with the same complication and subtlety of thought, the same abstract speculation strangely mingled with most individual and personal pathos.
The sad tone of his speculations about the universe and human destiny gave an impression of mournfulness to his lines, but this rather deepened the pathos of his work.
They often act on pathos.
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His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.
20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.
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