pathos

Example Sentences

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But Ms. MeLampy is a gifted writer who works her grandmother’s material into her book with sparing pathos and plenty of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is romance, drama, pathos and the verbal berating of hotel staff and music video directors.

From Salon

But he mixes pathos with humor, laughing at himself even when the situations he sings about are anything but funny.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”

From Los Angeles Times

A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times