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The novel triumphs with humor and pathos.pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow
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The film captured all the pathos of their situation and brought tears to my eyes.pathos = sorrow
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Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. (source)pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow
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This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the worn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations.† (source)
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Without the pathos of the doomed boy, we have a picture of farming and merchant shipping with no narrative or thematic power.† (source)
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Jessica closed her eyes, found herself moved close to tears by the pathos in her son's voice.† (source)
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But there were many more moments of unbearable pathos.† (source)
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In talking, he has the appearance of candor, becomes pathetic at times when pathos will serve him best, uttering his words with a quaver in his voice, often accompanied by a moistened eye, then turning quickly with a determined and forceful method of speech, as if indignation or resolution had sprung out of tender memories that had touched his heart.† (source)
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Anything but perfection is pathos.† (source)
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They keep a wake from lapsing into comic pathos.† (source)
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The only moment of pathos, although it was involuntary, occurred at eleven o'clock Sunday night when they brought in the episcopal coffin, still smelling of ship's wax, with its copper handles and tufted silk lining.† (source)
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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 him.† (source)
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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)
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"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)
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What seems like bathos or platitudes to us were real pathos and convictions for them.† (source)
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Among ourselves we scoffed at the vulgarity and pathos of that African lust for gold.† (source)
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