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pathospa‧thos /ˈpeɪθɒs $ -θɑːs/ noun [uncountable] pathosOrigin: 1500-1600 Greek ‘suffering, feeling, disease’, from paschein; ➔ PATHETIC - The opera's mixture of comedy, pathos, and desire will break your heart.
- Adjani is unrivalled when it comes to expressing violent pain without lapsing into pathos.
- But Phillips' gift is in deftly leavening bathos with pathos.
- Drenched in the pathos and the rhythms of the blues, this wonderful production is at once mournful and exuberant.
- It was a venue of pathos and prayers, a wretched place for passengers concerned with their welfare.
- The concentrated pathos of her narration, and the clarity with which she conveys its crippling effects on Blanche, is breathtaking.
the quality that a person, situation, film, or play has that makes you feel pity and sadness: the pathos of the woman trying to keep her lover |