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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    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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    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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    Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.†  (source)
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    The whole scene was a unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.†  (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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    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)
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    They keep a wake from lapsing into comic pathos.†  (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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