Example sentences for: pathos

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

  • The screenwriter, Curtis, began his career with the hilariously acrid BBC sitcom Black Adder before writing The Tall Guy (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral --a movie that irked me, possibly because Grant passed up the alluringly neurotic Kristin Scott Thomas for the vapidly bovine Andie MacDowell, possibly because its dizzy romantic badinage was interrupted for easy pathos involving a fatal heart attack and other real-world calamities.

  • Lines such as "I am the self-consumer of my woes" have a distinction and force that need no propping up by the pathos of the life behind the writing.

  • Paintings that seem at first sight to be sober treatments of an enduring order turn out on closer inspection to have pockets of deep pathos or subtle humor.

  • The pathos shines through the heavily restored paintings of St. Francis in the Bardi Chapel (c.

  • As a result of the painstaking centimeter-by-centimeter recovery of the fragmentary but still powerful traces of the “real Leonardo,” we can now see, for example, that Philip (third to the right) has an expression of acute grief rather than the simpering pathos left by “restorers” who presumed to improve on the original.


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