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pathos

noun as in deep sadness

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Out pops the tongue—or, in this case, out pops a New York Times column uncritically linking the pathos of the Screen Actors Guild to the AI doom coming for all of humanity.

She finds cosmic significance in the creature’s efficiently programmed movements, and pathos when she returns the next day and both it and the web are gone.

It’s a tricky balancing act that Feinartz depicts with candor, grace and patience, never letting the film’s provocative pathos turn overly grim or sentimental.

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Coogan believes Partridge's longevity is down to him having "evolved" into a more "three-dimensional" figure, capable of evoking "pathos".

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“Keep A Picture” is a modern Appalachian mountain ballad in terms of the exquisite, tangible pathos.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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