| 单词 | pathos |
| 释义 | pathos (once / 296 pages) n Pathos is a quality that stirs emotions. A song with a lot of pathos hits you right in the heart. You ever notice how some songs or movies appeal to your brains, while others appeal to your feelings? The ones that are all about feeling are full of pathos, an appeal to emotions that originally meant "suffering" in Greek. Often, this word has to do specifically with pity and sympathy: when someone tells a story about people suffering that makes you feel for them, that's pathos. WORD FAMILYpathos: pathetic+/pathetic: pathetically USAGE EXAMPLESWearing a wig and gag false teeth, he crashes Ines' social obligations, creating numerous script opportunities for pathos, slapstick and surrealism. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Meanwhile Lawrence’s Aurora, through no fault of her own, is so banal that the movie’s pathos frosts over as soon as she begins talking. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) Instead it uses vulgar humor and pathos to interrogate the desires of black women with honesty. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) 1n a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) the film captured all the pathos of their situation Syn|Hyper poignancy quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others Syn|Hyper commiseration, pity, ruth fellow feeling, sympathy sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) 3n a style that has the power to evoke feelings Hyper expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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