pathos
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The trial, known as Pathos, is using minimally invasive surgery carried out by robotic or laser methods, and lower doses of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024
Pathos not being much of a dramatic engine, Wright works very hard, if fictionally, to crank up the stakes.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
Pathos is meant to inspire sympathy and understanding in the viewer.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
I’d seen the wonderful exhibition of Greek and Roman bronzes at the National Gallery in Washington called “Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
Pathos and proprietorship, rightly applied to a nature like Lancelot’s, might have been successful in binding him.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing pathos
Argumentative Writing
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AP English Lit exam terms
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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