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pathos

/pey-thos, -thohs, -thaws/US // ˈpeɪ θɒs, -θoʊs, -θɔs //UK // (ˈpeɪθɒs) //

伤感,悲情,感伤,悲怆

Related Words

emotion感情,情感,感情方面,情绪passion激情,热情,热忱,热诚poignancy诗情画意,凄美,诗意,凄美感desolation荒凉,惆怅,荒芜,荒废feeling感受,感觉,感情,感到sentiment感情,情绪,情感,情操plaintiveness朴素,朴实,朴实无华,朴素的态度pitiableness怜悯,恻隐之心,怜悯之心,悲悯pitifulness可怜的人,可怜虫,可怜兮兮,怜悯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
    • : pity.
    • : Obsolete. suffering.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundeep sadness
Synonyms
emotion感情,情感,感情方面,情绪passion激情,热情,热忱,热诚poignancy诗情画意,凄美,诗意,凄美感desolation荒凉,惆怅,荒芜,荒废feeling感受,感觉,感情,感到plaintiveness朴素,朴实,朴实无华,朴素的态度poignance诗情画意,诗意,诗意盎然,诗情sentiment感情,情绪,情感,情操pitiableness怜悯,恻隐之心,怜悯之心,悲悯pitifulness可怜的人,可怜虫,可怜兮兮,怜悯

Examples

  • Hall is another highlight, endowing an underwritten woman-scorned character with some real pathos.

  • They all moved from plot point to plot point and from pathos to comedy with few punches or punchlines landing.

  • In the celebrated mad scene concluding the first act, for example, once she is stricken she is totally enveloped by the pathos of her situation.

  • The shock value is high, but so is the level of pathos imbued in Krauze’s text.

  • Everywhere DakhaBrakha has played, fans have rhapsodized about the joy and pathos in their music.

  • Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.

  • This movie and the novel are a beautiful blend of pathos and comedy.

  • Braff is striving to convey a poignant blend of pathos and humor here, but his sort of striving is a form of cheating.

  • And the first two episodes were directed by Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights, who is a master of small-town pathos.

  • Once edgily shocking, the show now feels rich with pathos and poignancy.

  • There are others who disclose a special susceptibility to the more simple effects of pathos.

  • He is a funny figure, you say; but, by your leave, it seems to me that he is only a figure of a very great pathos.

  • Thomas Westfield died; a learned English divine, whose eloquence and pathos procured him the appellation of the weeping prophet.

  • Few poets have united as he has, delicate pathos and comic force, pure rêverie and the sense of the grotesque.

  • There was a touching pathos in Jakey's voice as he sang, and it was intensified when he asked, "Doan' you 'member me, honey?"

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