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  • There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with…†   (source)
  • "The Psalms of David, in sublimity, beauty, pathos, and originality, or in one word poetry, are superior to all the odes, hymns, and songs in any language," he told Jefferson.†   (source)
  • He wanted the chance to capture an American summer from L.A. to New York, showing the joy, the pathos, the sweat, the cheers and disappointments.†   (source)
  • She looked at me with some pathos.†   (source)
  • What seems like bathos or platitudes to us were real pathos and convictions for them.†   (source)
  • Anything but perfection is pathos.†   (source)
  • Among ourselves we scoffed at the vulgarity and pathos of that African lust for gold.†   (source)
  • Walking between two Red Army men at the tail of the procession, he attracted notice not only by his resolute air, his good looks, and the pathos of so young a rebel's plight, but by the utter absurdity of his own and his two companions' gestures.†   (source)
  • The Nation editorialized that the brief speech of Lucius Lamar in explanation of his disregard for the instructions of his state, "for manliness, dignity and pathos has never been surpassed in Congress.†   (source)
  • At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard sighing amid a desolate silence.   (source)
    pathos = quality that arouses pity or sorrow
  • But, throughout it all, and through the whole discourse, there had been a certain deep, sad undertone of pathos, which could not be interpreted otherwise than as the natural regret of one soon to pass away.   (source)
    pathos = sorrow
  • But there were many more moments of unbearable pathos.†   (source)
  • A renowned artist who happened to be stopping here on his way to Europe painted, with pathos-laden realism, a gigantic canvas in which Dr. Urbino was depicted on the ladder at the fatal moment when he stretched out his hand to capture the parrot.†   (source)
  • But it seemed a request more deeply rooted in pathos than in aberrant sexuality and I thought it might make her suspect that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • I think it's more that the ending picks up a little greater weight from the association with Isaiah, a greater impact, pathos even.†   (source)
  • He has the sloped head, shallow jaw and protuberant lips of an earthworm—but a worm with a human pathos about him.†   (source)
  • There was to me an element of pathos in those maxims, portraits and statues, in this wish of a man of the bush to make himself big, and setting about it in such a crude way.†   (source)
  • There was always this pathos in his plainness, his lack of external grace.†   (source)
  • However, enough of pathos and death-dealing.†   (source)
  • The pathos which was growing in the room was broken by the Orkney faction for the second time.†   (source)
  • Thus occupied he seemed to her a figure of infinite pathos.†   (source)
  • In the United States there is even a pathos of inverted emphasis: the goal is not to grow old, but to remain young; not to mature away from Mother, but to cleave to her.†   (source)
  • He would ask his mother naggingly, over and over again, why there was not more food, he would shout and storm at her (he even remembered the tones of his voice, which was beginning to break prematurely and sometimes boomed in a peculiar way), or he would attempt a snivelling note of pathos in his efforts to get more than his share.†   (source)
  • All this at the culminating moment of Not a Sparrow, that all-star, thrilling drama of pathos and beauty that Mr. Leadbetter had been looking forward to seeing for a whole week.†   (source)
  • Rhett knew very well the pathos of the spectacle, and if it blackened Scarlett's reputation he did not care.†   (source)
  • She was coming to capture Lancelot from Guenever, an expedition of which everybody except herself could feel the pathos.†   (source)
  • And as he passed through room after room, a certain pathos touched him remotely at the thought of Karakal's piled immensity over against such fragile charms.†   (source)
  • Years before, a young girl had lain there naked on the iron bed in my room with her eyes closed and her hands folded over her breast, and I had been so struck by the pathos of her submissive-ness and her trust in me and of the moment which would plunge her into the full, dark stream of the world that I had hesitated before laying my hands upon her and had, without understanding myself, called out her name.†   (source)
  • She could see them walking to his room of their own accord, expressive in his absence of pathos, surliness, ill-temper, charm.†   (source)
  • Laughing still, he let the distorted, the murdered and murderous music ooze out and on; and laughing still, he replied: "Please, no pathos, my friend!†   (source)
  • Just listen, you poor creature, listen without either pathos or mockery, while far away behind the veil of this hopelessly idiotic and ridiculous apparatus the form of this divine music passes by.†   (source)
  • Pathos and proprietorship, rightly applied to a nature like Lancelot's, might have been successful in binding him.†   (source)
  • But on top of them there were the broad ,and yet uncertain lines of her personal character—lines which made her different from the innocent Elaine, lines of less pathos perhaps but more reality, lines of power which made her into the individual Jenny that Lancelot loved.†   (source)
  • He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.†   (source)
  • Then the house was suddenly ringed with pathos.†   (source)
  • She beamed upon him through her terror-filled eyes, and the pathos of it cut me to the heart.†   (source)
  • The whole scene was a unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.†   (source)
  • His tone was both testy and full of pathos.†   (source)
  • What arrested him now as of value in life was less its beauty than its pathos.†   (source)
  • The content, the pathos, of his voice chained Carley to the spot.†   (source)
  • He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.†   (source)
  • In a few stories, however, he was able to reach beyond pathos and to strike a tragic note.†   (source)
  • "I waited and waited for you," she went on, her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos.†   (source)
  • You an' me will never get along," he said, with a dignity full of pathos.†   (source)
  • "My true friend," she said, in a faint voice, but with untellable pathos, "My true friend, and his!†   (source)
  • Death here was robbed of all nobility, of pathos, of majesty.†   (source)
  • He could only express pathos or venom, though most of his life had no concern with either.†   (source)
  • The pathos of that poor little murdered country girl!†   (source)
  • "Sleep well, Dandy Dale," said Kells, cheerfully, yet not without pathos.†   (source)
  • She was not to be trapped by pathos a second time.†   (source)
  • I reckon not or I'd been another kind of man," he returned, with something of pathos.†   (source)
  • "I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his voice.†   (source)
  • Then, with a pathos which struck home because of its utter simplicity, "He shall not suffer long."†   (source)
  • Here was the century-old problem in all its pathos seated singing before me.†   (source)
  • Pathos has this quality, that it seems ever addressed to one alone.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't go back on me!" implored Anson, with uplifted hands, in a dignity of pathos.†   (source)
  • It interrupted less here than in Europe, its pathos was less poignant, its irony less cruel.†   (source)
  • "Poor Pearl," she said, speaking with natural pathos.†   (source)
  • Now he was off, however, and it was back to pathos, with Carrie as the chief figure.†   (source)
  • It swelled out on the night with awful pathos.†   (source)
  • Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.†   (source)
  • His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.†   (source)
  • —few sights with truer pathos in them, than Hepzibah presented on that first afternoon.†   (source)
  • She was really too modest for consistent pathos.†   (source)
  • Others too have changed," said Madame Merle with a quiet noble pathos.†   (source)
  • An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe.†   (source)
  • What unutterable pathos was in his voice!†   (source)
  • Your reverence," he cried, with sudden pathos, "you behold before you a buffoon in earnest!†   (source)
  • No adequate expression of the beauty and profound pathos with which it impresses us is attainable.†   (source)
  • HE (with the pathos of one of his native ballads).†   (source)
  • He made no attempt at eloquence, at pathos, or emotional phrases.†   (source)
  • "Don't cry—don't cry!" said Henchard, with vehement pathos, "I can't bear it, I won't bear it.†   (source)
  • We laugh at dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!†   (source)
  • He felt guilty for his scoffing; he suddenly saw the pathos in her pretense that this stretch of tar-paper and slatted walks was a blazing garden.†   (source)
  • You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill your eyes with tears.†   (source)
  • He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.†   (source)
  • Most of its stories are composed in a minor key, a tone of subdued pathos--pathos marking both the nature and limit of Anderson's talent.†   (source)
  • I can't name the exquisite pathos of the contradiction given to such a speech by such a speaker; I only know that the next instant I heard myself throw off with homely force: "Stuff and nonsense!"†   (source)
  • A delicate pathos perfumed her disconnected remarks, giving them unexpected beauty, just as in the decaying autumn woods there sometimes rise odours reminiscent of spring.†   (source)
  • But one had to concede that this pathos for freedom had also brought forth shining foes of freedom, brilliant knights of tradition who did battle with irreverent, seditious progress.†   (source)
  • That is, his feelings and his voice were colored with that seeming repression and pathos which is the essence of eloquence.†   (source)
  • "I am feeling very old to-day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's.†   (source)
  • He would never exactly reply to Philip's eager questioning, but with a merry, rather stupid laugh, hinted at a romantic amour; he quoted a few lines of Rossetti, and once showed Philip a sonnet in which passion and purple, pessimism and pathos, were packed together on the subject of a young lady called Trude.†   (source)
  • A pathos so unusually compounded as that which attached to this hour was unlikely to repeat itself for years, if ever, and Jude would have paused, and meditated, and conversed.†   (source)
  • ...and the inexpressible pathos of his life found expression in these songs as I had never before felt it.†   (source)
  • 'The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly's remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.†   (source)
  • "The last herd!" he said, with pathos.†   (source)
  • The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce.†   (source)
  • But it was not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating—unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos.†   (source)
  • How strange the pathos of her voice!†   (source)
  • And, as he did so, terribly, sickeningly conscious of the mystery and drama as well as the pathos of his life—all he had contacted since his arrival in the east, how little he had in his youth.†   (source)
  • All Roberts' pathos and passion had no effect, unless to bring out by contrast the singular and ruthless nature of Jack Kells.†   (source)
  • He had seen the quatrain on the tomb of a Deccan king, and regarded it as profound philosophy—he always held pathos to be profound.†   (source)
  • At this picture of loveliness in distress, the pathos of which was heightened by the light touch with which it was drawn, a murmur of indignant sympathy broke from Trenor.†   (source)
  • He was so young and had so few friends that immortality had no particular attractions for him, and he was able without trouble to give up belief in it; but there was one thing which made him wretched; he told himself that he was unreasonable, he tried to laugh himself out of such pathos; but the tears really came to his eyes when he thought that he would never see again the beautiful mother whose love for him had grown more precious as the years since her death passed on.†   (source)
  • All the intervening weeks of shame and anguish and fury and strife and pathos, and the endless striving to forget, were as if by the magic of a letter made nothing but vain oblations.†   (source)
  • "I reckon I ain't dressed fitten for a pirate," said he, with a regretful pathos in his voice; "but I ain't got none but these."†   (source)
  • We ought to pity a humanity that had let a tawdry array of flimsy numbers compel it to believe in its own nothingness, that had allowed itself to be deprived of the pathos of its own importance.†   (source)
  • Helen was telegraphed for, and that spring party that after all gathered in that hospitable house had all the pathos of fair memories.†   (source)
  • They formed a pretty, suggestive, pathetic sight, of whose pathos and beauty they were themselves unconscious, and would not discover till, amid the storms and strains of after-years, with their injustice, loneliness, child-bearing, and bereavement, their minds would revert to this experience as to something which had been allowed to slip past them insufficiently regarded.†   (source)
  • O. Henry had found in these people romance, pathos, love, hate—Amory saw only coarseness, physical filth, and stupidity.†   (source)
  • He did not choose words full of pathos, although it seemed to him at that moment as if an icy hand had gripped his heart, making it twitch and then hammer rapidly against his ribs, just as it had the day Rhadamanthus first discovered the moist spot on his lung.†   (source)
  • "It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian," said Lord Henry, with a strange touch of pathos in his voice.†   (source)
  • Examining the letters, line by line, she was moved by their pathos and was intensely and pathetically grieved for the misery that had befallen the Aldens.†   (source)
  • But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.†   (source)
  • As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her, until she made of her prosy old uncle a man of quaint and meditative charm, metamorphosed the stray telegraph boy into a Puck-like creature of delightful originality.†   (source)
  • The big Mormon, on his knees, with his hands in a pan of dough, and his shirt all covered with flour, presented an incongruous figure of a man actuated by pathos and passion.†   (source)
  • Bulbuls and roses would still persist, the pathos of defeated Islam remained in his blood and could not be expelled by modernities.†   (source)
  • But once there he paused in the doorway without the courage to approach further, a man expressing in himself all the pathos of helpless humanity in the face of the relentless and inexplicable and indifferent forces of Life!†   (source)
  • The daily sacrifice, more awful really than all the sacrifices of the antique world, stirred him as much by its superb rejection of the evidence of the senses as by the primitive simplicity of its elements and the eternal pathos of the human tragedy that it sought to symbolise.†   (source)
  • And whereas Settembrini had spoken behind Naphta's back in tones of pathos-laden admonition about the Jesuit, as if he were somehow diabolic, Naphta made unperturbed fun of the other man and the sphere he came from, suggesting that the whole thing was terribly old-fashioned and backward, an attempt at bourgeois enlightenment perpetrated by yesterday's freethinkers, when in fact it was nothing more than a wretched intellectual mirage, which its self-deluded adherents ludicrously…†   (source)
  • Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth.†   (source)
  • The pronunciation of certain syllables gave to her lips this peculiarity of formation—a formation as suggestive and moving as pathos itself.†   (source)
  • They were overwhelmed by its pathos; pathos, they agreed, is the highest quality in art; a poem should touch the hearer with a sense of his own weakness, and should institute some comparison between mankind and flowers.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR—A SEER TO TRANSLATE Such feelings as were generated in Carrie by this walk put her in an exceedingly receptive mood for the pathos which followed in the play.†   (source)
  • Occasionally a breath of Nature, a raindrop of pathos and tenderness, or a gleam of humor, will find its way into the midst of his fantastic imagery, and make us feel as if, after all, we were yet within the limits of our native earth.†   (source)
  • He sighed and moaned like one under great suffering, and kept it up for a quarter of an hour; on purpose to distress his cousin apparently, for whenever he caught a stifled sob from her he put renewed pain and pathos into the inflexions of his voice.†   (source)
  • The Liturgy,[582] admired for its energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,—these collected, too, in long periods, from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.†   (source)
  • "Don't sit up, Dodo, you are so pale to-night: go to bed soon," said Celia, in a comfortable way, without any touch of pathos.†   (source)
  • It was an excellent divine gift, that gave a deeper pathos to the need, the sin, the sorrow with which it was mingled, as the canker in a lily-white bud is more grievous to behold than in a common pot-herb.†   (source)
  • The lives of those rural forefathers, whom we are apt to think very prosaic figures—men whose only work was to ride round their land, getting heavier and heavier in their saddles, and who passed the rest of their days in the half-listless gratification of senses dulled by monotony—had a certain pathos in them nevertheless.†   (source)
  • From her it was for his thought but a short way to Balthasar, and the strange things of which he had been witness, unaccountable by any law of nature; and from him, again, to the King of the Jews, whom the good man, with such pathos of patience, was holding in holy promise, the distance was even nearer.†   (source)
  • Nobody can feel that such conventions are really compulsory; and consequently nobody can believe in the stage pathos that accepts them as an inexorable fate, or in the genuineness of the people who indulge in such pathos.†   (source)
  • …are more in appearance than reality, if, by reading aloud to him, or by reducing the ordinary words to the modern orthography, he satisfies his proselyte that only about one-tenth part of the words employed are in fact obsolete, the novice may be easily persuaded to approach the "well of English undefiled," with the certainty that a slender degree of patience will enable him to to enjoy both the humour and the pathos with which old Geoffrey delighted the age of Cressy and of Poictiers.†   (source)
  • Finally, she wished him good night, with great pathos; and Mr. Bounderby went to bed, with a maudlin persuasion that he had been crossed in something tender, though he could not, for his life, have mentioned what it was.†   (source)
  • At last, George, sitting down beside the mourner, took her hand, and, with simple pathos, repeated the triumphant scene of her husband's death, and his last messages of love.†   (source)
  • Then the ventilator in the window-pane spasmodically started off for a new spin, and the pathos of Donald's song was temporarily effaced.†   (source)
  • She might have added with touching pathos, "I was so long used to sleep with her lying near me, on the entry floor."†   (source)
  • Again the instruments ended the tune; again they recommenced with as much fire and pathos as if it were the first strain.†   (source)
  • "It was but yesterday," rejoined the aged man, with touching pathos, "that the children of the Lenape were masters of the world.†   (source)
  • "O, Mr. James, what 'AVE you done!" he said in a voice of the deepest pathos, as he threw the implement out of the window.†   (source)
  • Pardon, this troop I cannot follow after With lofty speech, though by them scorned and spurned: My pathos certainly would move Thy laughter, If Thou hadst not all merriment unlearned.†   (source)
  • His father was using that unfair advantage possessed by us all when we are in a pathetic situation and see our own past as if it were simply part of the pathos.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the struggle, she had written off a letter of tender supplication to her brother at Calcutta, imploring him not to withdraw the support which he had granted to their parents and painting in terms of artless pathos their lonely and hapless condition.†   (source)
  • "My dear children," pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.†   (source)
  • The chapter was the eleventh of John,—the touching account of the raising of Lazarus, St. Clare read it aloud, often pausing to wrestle down feelings which were roused by the pathos of the story.†   (source)
  • There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations—eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired with these eyes—perhaps paired with pale eyes that can say nothing; just as a national language may be instinct with poetry unfelt by the lips that use it.†   (source)
  • He was at present too ill acquainted with disaster to enter into the pathos of a lot where everything is below the level of tragedy except the passionate egoism of the sufferer.†   (source)
  • Saying which, Rebecca went down on HER knees in a most tragical way, and, taking Sir Pitt's horny black hand between her own two (which were very pretty and white, and as soft as satin), looked up in his face with an expression of exquisite pathos and confidence, when—when the door opened, and Miss Crawley sailed in.†   (source)
  • But in the second half he suddenly changed his tone, and even his manner, and at once rose to pathos.†   (source)
  • …fretful in their temper, and who had never moved in a higher sphere of influence than that of parish overseer; and that the way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is lovable—the way I have learnt something of its deep pathos, its sublime mysteries—has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighbourhoods where they dwelt.†   (source)
  • But what we have to consider is not anybody's income—it's the souls of the poor sick people"—here Mr. Powderell's voice and face had a sincere pathos in them.†   (source)
  • It is perhaps remarkable, considering her temperament, that Phoebe oftener chose a strain of pathos than of gayety.†   (source)
  • But every one realized at once that the speaker might suddenly rise to genuine pathos and "pierce the heart with untold power."†   (source)
  • In the humorous line, I am thought to have a very pretty way with me; and as for pathos, I am as provocative of tears as an onion.†   (source)
  • Her thought was not veined by any solemnity or pathos about the old man on the bed: such sentiments are easier to affect than to feel about an aged creature whose life is not visibly anything but a remnant of vices.†   (source)
  • The deepest pathos of Phoebe's voice and song, moreover, came sifted through the golden texture of a cheery spirit, and was somehow so interfused with the quality thence acquired, that one's heart felt all the lighter for having wept at it.†   (source)
  • It is certainly trying to a man's dignity to reappear when he is not expected to do so: a first farewell has pathos in it, but to come back for a second lends an opening to comedy, and it was possible even that there might be bitter sneers afloat about Will's motives for lingering.†   (source)
  • She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty: a De Bracy reduced to take his dinner in a basin would have seemed to her an example of pathos worth exaggerating, and I fear his aristocratic vices would not have horrified her.†   (source)
  • It is a heavy annoyance to a writer, who endeavors to represent nature, its various attitudes and circumstances, in a reasonably correct outline and true coloring, that so much of the mean and ludicrous should be hopelessly mixed up with the purest pathos which life anywhere supplies to him.†   (source)
  • "Cousin Hepzibah," said the Judge, with an impressive earnestness of manner, which grew even to tearful pathos as he proceeded, "is it possible that you do not perceive how unjust, how unkind, how unchristian, is this constant, this long-continued bitterness against me, for a part which I was constrained by duty and conscience, by the force of law, and at my own peril, to act?†   (source)
  • Pictures of life, scenes of passion or sentiment, wit, humor, and pathos, were all thrown away, or worse than thrown away, on Clifford; either because he lacked an experience by which to test their truth, or because his own griefs were a touch-stone of reality that few feigned emotions could withstand.†   (source)
  • The restrained pathos of the final book of The Iliad is characteristic of the poem as a whole.†   (source)
  • A heroine in a hack post-chaise is such a blow upon sentiment, as no attempt at grandeur or pathos can withstand.†   (source)
  • (With pathos) No girl would when I went girling.†   (source)
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