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Recent Examples of pathos
The performance, which will undoubtedly be scrutinized and discussed in the awards season, is a blend of tough, profane humor, feral intelligence and cynical calculation, with pathos and heartbreak added in at the end.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
His most recent film, Holy Spider, nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, found fleeting pathos in a fanatical serial killer.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
While the play is packed with humorous dialogue, there are also emotional moments of tenderness and pathos.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Plenty of programs classified as comedies (Gilmore Girls and Orange Is the New Black come to mind) are not laugh-a-minute shows but had comedy underlying the moments of pathos.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
His most recent film, Holy Spider, nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, found fleeting pathos in a fanatical serial killer.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
While the play is packed with humorous dialogue, there are also emotional moments of tenderness and pathos.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Plenty of programs classified as comedies (Gilmore Girls and Orange Is the New Black come to mind) are not laugh-a-minute shows but had comedy underlying the moments of pathos.
—Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathos
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Johnny Rockets Drown any potential sorrows in a free milkshake with an in-store purchase.Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Many of those recollections contain notes of sorrow.Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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This is a wisp of a premise — aside from her muted graffiti efforts, our protagonist’s grief manifests itself more as general moodiness than anything particularly tangible.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Comedy is a way for not just professional entertainers to process that existential grief, but a tool for anybody working through this massive threat to our democratic system.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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The silent anguish that Charles describes has dangerous real-world ramifications: After the death of a spouse, widowers experience higher rates of mortality, persistent depression, and social isolation than widows do.Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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The plot is on the heavy side: The Innocents plays with the mental anguish of a person desperately trying to make sense of the world around them while simultaneously dealing with their own emotional turmoil.B.J. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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Or are they plagued by all the same problems of online dating — flighty matches, algorithms designed to keep you on the apps, and a lot of heartache and dissatisfaction?Allie Volpe, Vox, 14 Nov. 2024
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Chace married his wife Molly in 2022, and both had to face the heartache of their moms not being there to share the joy of the day.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The final freak in our trilogy, Robert Smith. R.C.: The Cure are known for atmospheric sounds and introspective lyrics about joy, love, and heartbreak.Nate Sloan, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Willie Nelson, the ninety-one-year-old singer-songwriter, who has brought comfort and heartbreak and joy to his fans with a hundred and fifty-three albums, thirteen books, and more than a couple of arrests for marijuana possession, will soon publish his first-ever cookbook.Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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While a fair number of New Yorkers may be at home alone tonight, watching prestige-TV reruns and trying to enter a fugue state, plenty of us plan to lean into the misery (or joy) of watching the election results in numbers.Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
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With increasing public pressure, companies have been looking to nuclear power as a potential answer to their environmental woes.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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There is still hope, however, that Tunisians can fix their country’s woes through the political process.Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Pathos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathos. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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