Sample Sentences for
pathos
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  • Jessica closed her eyes, found herself moved close to tears by the pathos in her son's voice.†  (source)
  • This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the worn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations.†  (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)
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  • Rhett knew very well the pathos of the spectacle, and if it blackened Scarlett's reputation he did not care.†  (source)
  • What unutterable pathos was in his voice!†  (source)
  • The whole scene was a unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.†  (source)
  • Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They keep a wake from lapsing into comic pathos.†  (source)
  • What seems like bathos or platitudes to us were real pathos and convictions for them.†  (source)
  • Among ourselves we scoffed at the vulgarity and pathos of that African lust for gold.†  (source)
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