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Recent Examples of pathos
Storytelling connects you and your audience and infuses your message with pathos, which persuades potential clients to part with their cash and pay for your services or products.
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Rachel Wells, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The easy answer there, of course, is that there’s pathos in still being able to read the names.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Culkin, in a career-best turn, tears into the role with a remarkable mix of exuberance and pathos.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
But there’s also a pathos to the character that makes his queasy deal easier to stomach.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
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Rachel Wells, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
The easy answer there, of course, is that there’s pathos in still being able to read the names.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Culkin, in a career-best turn, tears into the role with a remarkable mix of exuberance and pathos.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
But there’s also a pathos to the character that makes his queasy deal easier to stomach.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pathos
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathos
Noun
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Hendrix went on to say the foundation shared in the sorrow of the child’s passing.Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
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The topic, then, is sorrow, songs of sorrow, sounds of sorrow.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Popular on Variety The truth absolves Emily and lets her parents breathe a sigh of relief about that night, which had been tearing them apart from grief.Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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Some other users have used the trend to immerse themselves in nostalgic memories of their past or describe their grief.Athena Sobhan, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Mass killing database:Revealing trends, details and anguish of every US event since 2006 How many school shootings took place in 2024?Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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What follows is a study in guilt, responsibility, and anguish, all told in ashamed interiority on Murphy’s face.Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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An Amy Adams Oscar win in 2009 would save us a ton of heartache over the years.Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
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But the plot never changed: The Eras Tour, bottomline, was the story of how a girl grows into a woman, and all the heartache and delight that comes with that time.Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2024
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Just a girl, looking for a place in this world, finding a community of kindred spirits with heartbreak as their national anthem.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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There'll be a lot of jokes, a lot of moments of heartbreak, moments of joy, moments of just silliness.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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While there are notable and beautiful bright spots to All or Nothing (most of which go to infallible Leigh regular Ruth Sheen), the film really doubles down on the ambient misery of these people’s lives.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Adults explain little to her—the possibility of death lies beyond her field of vision—which gives the vivid misery of her treatment a fairy-tale quality.Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
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The revenue outlook for the first quarter and full year of fiscal 2026 are likely to prove the next major catalyst for the stock, determining how significantly the company can capitalize on recent woes at rival CrowdStrike.TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
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But perhaps the most noticeable concern isn't a winter woe at all.Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Pathos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathos. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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