Examples of 'pathos' in a sentence
Meaning of "pathos"
Pathos refers to a quality that evokes sadness or pity in literature or art, often associated with strong emotions
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- 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.
- A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
- An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
How to use "pathos" in a sentence
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I am nailing pathos to the fricking wall here.
It is the ideal mixture of pathos and fright.
Pathos is an appeal to the emotions of your audience.
Logos ethos and pathos in political discourse.
Finally find a flame passion lurks pathos.
Our pathos is that of the end of time.
And the infinite pathos of human trust.
But there are many individual moments of pathos.
That is the true pathos and sublime.
Complete lack of glamor and excessive pathos.
There was always a certain pathos to this notion.
He manages to move without falling into pathos.
I wanted to find pathos in overexposed symbols.
But we actually do very little with pathos.
There is little pathos or emotional tension.
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You have just effectively conveyed pathos.
There is pathos in his every line.
Her monologue is full of pathos and anger.
The pathos of battle is in short supply.
This may sound like a lot of pathos.
The novel attains a pathos rare in war novels.
Those two would be ethos and pathos.
His pathos is quickly shared with the reader.
Subjects marked by pathos and misfortune.
The pathos of the lonesome detective led me here.
There is a dreadful pathos in the search for origins.
Pathos is an appeal on the emotions of an audience.
You have pathos in the thing.
There is the emotion of doing and the pathos of pretending.
The idea of pathos is both a paradox and a mystery.
I thought it might add a touch of pathos.
It has pathos and human drama.
I think she sees your pathos.
So much pathos and at the same time beauty.
I have just defined philosophical pathos.
And the pathos comes back in other ways.
The answer is that ethos and pathos were missing.
With great pathos he pointed out the injustice.
The line needs more pathos.
His pathos is his refusal to suffer.
I want you to play it for pathos.
There is pathos in these kind of dialogues.
I deftly interweave humor with pathos.
True pathos which tugs strongly at the heartstrings.
There is an odd pathos about him.
And it will be designed to have the maximum pathos.
You have no social pathos anymore.
The images are sufficiently eloquent in thier pathos.
Pathos is the emotional connection.
Most of his compositions are characterised by humour and pathos.
