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• The closing scene of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" cannot but evoke a feeling of deep pathos.From the entry closing
• Her pictures were casual, mostly unposed snapshots; any pathos feels less intended.2009 January 9, Karen Rosenberg, “Portraits Taken by the Writer as a Young Woman (in Hard Times)”, in New York Times. From the entry unposed
• The result is electric-Kool-Aid brain candy, with a twist of unexpected pathos.2003 June 9, Bryan Walsh, “Movies: Enter The Animatrix”, in Time. From the entry brain candy
• He now kills a poor black bum, slowly and sadistically, in a scene whose terrible pathos is inescapable.1992, Elizabeth Young, “The beast in the jungle, the figure in the carpet: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho”, in Elizabeth Young…. From the entry zombiefication
• On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos.1961, CS Lewis, A Grief Observed. From the entry maudlin
• As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry manifesto
• It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.2012, Scott Hales, My Final Verdict on 'A Roof Overhead'. From the entry clobbering
• Not Judy Garland, I can hear you moaning, the show business legend whose sorry life has not exactly gone unmilked for cheap pathos elsewhere.2010 November 30, Matt Wolf, “It's Judy's World and Welcome to It”, in The New York Times. From the entry unmilked
• The ingestion of white powder, whatever the regrets, pathos and even the wit of the ingester, is not of itself a fictionally involving action.2008 March 31, Richard Eder, “Double Whammy: Virus Spread by Terrorists and a Plague of Drug-Addled Escapists”, in New York Times. From the entry ingester
• There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry mucho
• No actress that I know can so mingle dewy pathos and the salt of sanity: yet she must forego these in favour of gumptionless Dianas.1924, James Agate, The Contemporary Theatre. From the entry gumptionless
• Through the zombie dance sequence, Gaga shows us that poignancy, pathos and pain ultimately lead to the discovery of the beauty found within our agonizing life experiences.”2013, Amber L. Davisson, Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture, page 12. From the entry zombie dance

Meaning of pathos

1. noun The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
2. noun A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
3. noun An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

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Questions about pathos in a sentence

How do you use pathos in a sentence?

Pathos is used as a noun. For example: “The closing scene of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" cannot but evoke a feeling of deep pathos.”

What is a short sentence with pathos?

“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos.”

What does pathos mean?

Pathos means the quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.