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Example sentences for: pathos

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Having milked the trial for pathos, the media applauded the judge for instructing prosecutors not to manipulate the jury's emotions.
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.
The collection covers the same ground as her two previous books--the immigrant and biracial experience in America--and she covers it with "equal measures of pathos and wry fun ...
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).