56 Verbs to Use for the Word pathos

Perhaps Mr. Heatherbloom didn't really feel the pathos of the selection; at any rate, those tears Mr. Mackintosh had prophesied would be rolling down the cheeks of the listening multitude weren't forthcoming.

But his sympathy and affection for Ailie, shown so tenderly in the hospital scenes, find an added pathos in the thought that he was serving his first and best friend, one who had healed his hurt as he would have healed hers if he could.]

He was strong, and it is the strong who are quickest to detect pathos.

Nothing in story books equals the pathos and romance of some of them.

And then, magically, I saw the pathos of my present position in it as in a truth-revealing mirror.

"At last, laying my hand on his shoulder, and throwing considerable pathos into my voice, I said: "My friend, it was not always thus with you.

In the light of the story the landlord had told him he realised the full pathos of its antique grandeur.

He could draw a pathos and sublimity out of the dirty inn chamber, such as Wordsworth never elicited from tubs and daffodilsbecause he could use them according to the rules of art, which are the rules of sound reason and of true taste.

The writers chose satiric or didactic subjects, and avoided pathos, deep feeling, and sublimity.

Such is the life-history of Imtiazan, one of the most famous dancing-girls Bombay has ever knowna history that lacks not pathos.

Sodoma's Sebastian is but Hyacinth or Hylas, transpierced with arrows, so that pain and martyrdom add pathos to his poetry of youthfulness.

Extraordinary that Charlotte's critics have missed the pathos of that cri de coeur.

Terrence brought all the pathos and eloquence which he naturally possessed to the aid of his friend and got both of them off pretty well.

One must remember this, as well as Lamb's humble lodgings and the drudgery of his daily work in the-big commercial house, if he would appreciate the pathos of "The Old Familiar Faces," or the heroism which shines through the most human and the most delightful essays in our language.

Though she was content to retaliate only by heaping coals of fire upon the poet's bays, and though she even heightens the pathos of his story by relating how he had refused the moiety of a small pension from his mother upon hearing that she had suffered losses in the collapse of the South Sea scheme, Savage remained henceforth her implacable enemy.

A cold chill ran through him as he heard the whinneying scream of the mothera warning cry that held for him the pathos and the despair of a creature that was human.

It has been suggested by my esteemed friend, Dr. W. Lindsay Alexander, that Scottish anecdotes deal too exclusively with the shrewd, quaint, and pawky humour of our countrymen, and have not sufficiently illustrated the deep pathos and strong loving-kindness of the "kindly Scot,"qualities which, however little appreciated across the Border, abound in Scottish poetry and Scottish life.

Sometimes the sisters, while they worked, sang together the hymns they had been accustomed to sing with their father on Sundays; and memory of the missing voice imparted to their tones a pathos that no mere skill could imitate.

She interpreted the pathos, the tragedy, the aspirations of life in the light of this philosophy.

Philip, do you know the pathos there is in the eyes of unsought women, oppressed with the burden of an inner life unshared?

She lived again all the pathos, the anger and despair and reconciliation of the old tale, and her audience thrilled with her as at the touch of a tragedy queen.

True, they rode and played and swam and romped without restraint, but beneath all of their abandon there lurked the ever-present pathos of the jail, the asylum, the detention ward.

But there was no recognition in the glance that met hersonly the immeasurable pathos of a hopeless surrender; the fervent passion of Marina's will and faith had made all things seem possible of achievement, though Venice was against her, for had not the mission been given her in a vision by the Holy Madonna of San DonatoMother of Sorrowsand was not the issue sure?

Instead her tale is one of generous love and melting pathos more characteristic of the romance than of the novella or its successors.

The composition was one of those brilliant ones in which pure Beauty, in a fit of caprice, seems to have lent herself to the service of Elegance, but, only half disguised in changing forms and dazzling lights, betrays in every movement her own nobility and pours out lavishly her glorious pathos.

56 Verbs to Use for the Word  pathos