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a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

The film captured all the pathos of their situation and brought tears to my eyes.

pathos = sorrow

Without the pathos of the doomed boy, we have a picture of farming and merchant shipping with no narrative or thematic power.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

"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.
David McCullough -- John Adams

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

...and the inexpressible pathos of his life found expression in these songs as I had never before felt it.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

They put up bail money, installed him in an alcoholics' sanitarium, and proceeded to wring all the pathos from the story they could: This newspaper does not believe that Ira Hayes should spend a night in jail.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard sighing amid a desolate silence.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

pathos = sorrow

An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow

Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.
Alcott, Louisa May -- Little Women
But the boy seemed to feel some of the pathos of the moment...
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- A Millionaire of Yesterday
And there is a pathos in that memory, for the poor fellow never went to sea again after all.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
One prisoner of fifteen years had scratched verses upon his walls, and brief prose sentences—brief, but full of pathos.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
Who can read that passage, and be insensible to its pathos and sublimity?
Douglass, Frederick -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
Meanwhile he walked familiar streets, merry reminiscences crowding round him, sad ones also, both with the same surprising pathos.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Tales and Fantasies
At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard sighing amid a desolate silence.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- The Scarlet Letter
He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Other of his shorter poems are full of a simple pathos and gentle humor.
Marshall, H.E. -- English Literature For Boys And Girls
The pathos of this thing touched him.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon

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