pathos

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s funniest and finest movie in many years is perfection all the way through: the perfect casting choice, the perfect balance of comedy and pathos, the perfect wacky route to the perfect ending.

But he carries the pathos of the impressionable idiot.

Kay is notable for adding dimension and pathos to the compromises of a mob wife, years before “Goodfellas” or “The Sopranos.”

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.