Sample Sentences for
pathos
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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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    Jessica closed her eyes, found herself moved close to tears by the pathos in her son's voice.†  (source)
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    They keep a wake from lapsing into comic pathos.†  (source)
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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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    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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    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)
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    What unutterable pathos was in his voice!†  (source)
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    The whole scene was a unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.†  (source)
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    Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.†  (source)
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    "I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his voice.†  (source)
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    She might have added with touching pathos, "I was so long used to sleep with her lying near me, on the entry floor."†  (source)
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