pathos

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And in the crucial scene when Sonny is put on the phone with Leon, whom he calls his wife—Sonny’s motive is to pay for Leon’s sex-reassignment surgery—he strikes moving notes of pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Even the sequences of obvious pathos are earned, over and over again.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

There is romance, drama, pathos and the verbal berating of hotel staff and music video directors.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

But he mixes pathos with humor, laughing at himself even when the situations he sings about are anything but funny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Matthias’s show of pathos seemed to cheer the King.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques