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pathos
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Definition:1. something that pulls on the heartstrings2. a speaker's / writer's attempt at (1)
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Her eyes were subtly sweet, her mouth full of pathos. She pressed forward to speak to him; the Dean, all benignity, bent his head to listen.
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My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I choose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.40 (2004)
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he would attempt a snivelling note of pathos in his efforts to get more than his share.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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whenever he caught a stifled sob from her he put renewed pain and pathos into the inflexions of his voice.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“My dear children,” pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, “this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; [...]"
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Tolstóy describes the death scene so that it becomes one of the most living scenes in the book. It is free of morbidity, false pathos, and extraneous sentimentality, but it is moving and passionate.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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I was immediately aware that my sullen old reptilian self would have handed him over to the Philistines for the sake of a few more minutes' sleep. I really despise the pathos of being found asleep at odd times in odd places.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.167 (2004)
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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.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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