PATHOS in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for PATHOS, such as:
1. He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.
2. The whole scene was an unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.
3. Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.
4. He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
5. You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill your eyes with tears.
2. The whole scene was an unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.
3. Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.
4. He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
5. You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill your eyes with tears.
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Meanings and Examples of PATHOS
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pathos
n. tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
Classic Sentence:
1 At this picture of loveliness in distress, the pathos of which was heightened by the light touch with which it was drawn, a murmur of indignant sympathy broke from Trenor.
2 He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
3 It was but yesterday," rejoined the aged man, with touching pathos, "that the children of the Lenape were masters of the world.
4 He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.
5 At last, George, sitting down beside the mourner, took her hand, and, with simple pathos, repeated the triumphant scene of her husband's death, and his last messages of love.
6 The whole scene was an unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos.
7 You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty, mere beauty, could fill your eyes with tears.
8 "It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian," said Lord Henry, with a strange touch of pathos in his voice.
9 "I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice.
10 The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce.
11 Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
12 And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
13 Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last.
14 Again the instruments ended the tune; again they recommenced with as much fire and pathos as if it were the first strain.
Example Sentence:
1 He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.
2 The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.