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Pathos
Pathos meaning
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality. | A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion. | An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
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Example sentences (20)
According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos — at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.
The story remains rooted in Demy’s pathos, and pathos gives ’ gravity.
And whatever potential she had for comedy or pathos isn’t evident by the dialogue or situations given her, which invariably paint her as a selfish twit and Indy as an arrogant sleaze.
Connor, the forgotten Roy sibling, is a subject of pathos rather than merely of buffoonish comic relief.
It all paves the way for one of cinema's most unforgettable final scenes, during which the story's underlying pathos is laid bare.
It has the same humour, heart and pathos of the sitcom, but with more anecdotes and insight as to what inspired the events you see on screen.
It really carried the audience along with its pathos.
It’s trite and predictable stuff: the laughs are forced; the pathos is over-stewed.
Night after night, on TV and in Las Vegas, he wrung pathos, pain and hopelessness from his situation.
Out Tuesday, her book is emotional, full of pathos, and highlights how abortion makes possible all the wonders of life.
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The descriptions can be sickly sweet, distracting from the deeper strength of the work, and the reason some of the essays are capable of bringing tears to the eye: an intense pathos for others.
But Kelly doesn’t suggest that you “spray and pray”, littering the internet with every ounce of pathos and self-expression you can muster.
Christopher Sieber brings an understated charm to Ernest, balancing absurdity with pathos, while Michelle Williams dazzles vocally in her role as the mysterious enchantress Lisle.
Devashish Makhija’s new Hindi-language film melds a chase thriller and a topical political drama to exhilarating effect – and throws in a baby for extra pathos.
I don’t always agree with this sentiment, but he’s right to suggest—his work demonstrates—that humor and pathos are often inextricable.
The older Harry is played by Meyyappan himself with a pathos that skirts easy sentiment for something deeper in a stunning and all engulfing creation possessed by a deep-set humanity at its heart.
There was a kind of pathos when, even in all their finery, their lives remained threadbare.
These situations are played for laughs, but Wiig also mines the pathos, too.
They are, rather, feted for their creativity and the pathos that is reflected in their imaginative work.