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Recent Examples of pathos
The spiral of events that follow ups the pathos while quietly commenting on rigid patriarchal rules, male privilege, sanctimonious moral posturing, the denial of women’s bodily autonomy and contempt for otherness, things all still very much with us today.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
Alison Oliver, meanwhile, gives an unexpectedly elastic performance, bringing grotesque humor and real pathos to Isabella Linton, whose transformation over the course of the film is one of its most convincing arcs.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
The album ends with an eight-minute retelling of a Greek myth — Salmacis and Hermaphroditus — drenched in Mellotron and erotic pathos.
—Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
That’s the pathos of modern Western neoliberal culture.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
Alison Oliver, meanwhile, gives an unexpectedly elastic performance, bringing grotesque humor and real pathos to Isabella Linton, whose transformation over the course of the film is one of its most convincing arcs.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
The album ends with an eight-minute retelling of a Greek myth — Salmacis and Hermaphroditus — drenched in Mellotron and erotic pathos.
—Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
That’s the pathos of modern Western neoliberal culture.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathos
Noun
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Giving in, in this case, is drowning his sorrows in drink.—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Such trickery to assign great value to low-worth materials also underpins the surprise ending for The Girl Who Cried Pearls, which follows a poor boy falling in love with a girl overwhelmed by sorrow to the point her tears turn into pearls.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With no answers, her parents’ intense grief settled into silence, and her three brothers grew up not knowing what happened to their 3-year-old sister.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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He was stuck deep in the recesses of shock and grief at the loss of the boy who’d labored by his side for so long, a boy who’d never harmed anyone and who had sat behind the wheel of that silver Saab from sunrise to sundown for the family.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Putting private anguish and public witnessing into forceful tension, Paksa fashioned a productively ambivalent rubric for the artist under authoritarianism.—
Daniel R. Quiles,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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The discomfort of boredom, even the anguish of it, can spur us into flights of imagination, resourcefulness, and invention.—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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Even in times of challenge, setback and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shone through very brightly.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement Even in times of challenge, setback, and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shown through very brightly.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
25 Feb. 2026
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Alex Sebek tried her hardest to put aside the heartbreak long enough to look at the big picture.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Season 2 saw the ladies battling love, heartbreak, motherhood, jealousy, and the full force of the English legal system.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Italian carried on at Spurs for another 13 months before finally being put out of his misery after his much more memorable rant at Southampton in March 2023.—
Dan Kilpatrick,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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But Berthe has lost her whole family to the camps … isn’t the cause of her misery right there?—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Miami is still a long way from fixing its traffic and public transportation woes, but there may be a credible solution on the horizon — electric flying taxis.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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And while the first half of this season felt overstuffed with subplots, its second half settles more evenly into all of them, including the woes and romances of both London’s elite and its more lower-class members.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Pathos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathos. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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