All 16 Uses of
pathetic
in
War and Peace
- "But a very kind man, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna with a pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostov deserved this censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man.†
Chpt 1
- Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the father and son.†
Chpt 1
- As to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his dying father.†
Chpt 1
- "My dear friend?" said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared to sympathize in any way.†
Chpt 3
- —said her charming, pathetic, dead face.†
Chpt 4
- There was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face today.†
Chpt 8
- The mistress rocked and hushed her baby and when anyone came into the cellar asked in a pathetic whisper what had become of her husband who had remained in the street.†
Chpt 10
- All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.†
Chpt 10
- He seemed altogether so thin, small, and pathetic.†
Chpt 10
- We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair…. and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this.†
Chpt 11
- He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.†
Chpt 11
- The count is pathetic, they say.†
Chpt 12 *
- There was a pathetic expression of sorrow, prayer, and hope in it.†
Chpt 12
- When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart.†
Chpt 14
- Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.†
Chpt 15
- And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(pathetic as in: Her pathetic look saddened us.) pitiful (arousing pity)