Example sentences for: pathos

How can you use “pathos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One difference: Schröder hates emotional displays, claiming he "can't abide pathos."

  • The dead Jesus in his mother’s arms emphasizes the agony rather than the pathos portrayed by the Pietà in St. Peter’s in Rome (see page 61).

  • Having milked the trial for pathos, the media applauded the judge for instructing prosecutors not to manipulate the jury's emotions.

  • A lot of the power of the paintings to compel astonishment or pathos has leaked away: Max Weber's fantasy painting of a New York department store (1915), once an icon of modernity, now seems quaint.

  • By taking him and Carmela seriously, by making them neither monsters nor the butt of jokes, the writers grant them dignity and pathos.


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