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Recent Examples of pathos
Keller resists going too quirky with his characters, locating humor instead in the sometimes prickly, often playful exchanges between them, and pathos in their genuine care and concern for one another.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
Few leave unscathed as the handheld camera whip-pans and fast-zooms between cringe-comedy and genuine pathos and back again — especially once the hapless prof paves his own road to hell with his good intentions.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
The show is more of a comedy with periodic moments of action, suspense, and pathos.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Camp, whose previous work as the co-creator and steward of the Marcel the Shell character with ex-wife Jenny Slate, is an inspired choice, as his ability to hoover out the most pathos possible from the smallest creature available may now be something of a signature.
—Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
Few leave unscathed as the handheld camera whip-pans and fast-zooms between cringe-comedy and genuine pathos and back again — especially once the hapless prof paves his own road to hell with his good intentions.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
The show is more of a comedy with periodic moments of action, suspense, and pathos.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Camp, whose previous work as the co-creator and steward of the Marcel the Shell character with ex-wife Jenny Slate, is an inspired choice, as his ability to hoover out the most pathos possible from the smallest creature available may now be something of a signature.
—Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathos
Noun
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Not the murder, not the arrival of the addicted sister, but the removal of the boy that has been at the core of so much sorrow and betrayal between the sisters.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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That haunting blend of sorrow and defiance shaped us.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
Noun
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This is twilight music, played at the edge of grief and grace.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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Turning him off like a machine was, to the innies, their first experience of grief, of a death in their family.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Drawing heavily from Qiu’s biography, My Father’s Son centers on an 18-year-old protagonist, Qiao, who loses his voice while attempting to deliver the eulogy at his father’s funeral and flees in anguish.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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Many of us watch in anguish as our compatriots abandon their homes, desperate for a safe haven beyond the reach of oppression and destruction.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
Noun
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The characters in Eurydice do this dance between living and dying, between feeling and forgetting, throughout the play, and are thrust again and again into heartache as a result.—
Pamela Newton
June 24,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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The loves and the losses and the heartache, and then the elation.—
Rachel Brodsky,
Time,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Featuring explosive revelations, access to online empire builders and interviews with digital powerhouses followed by hundreds of millions, the documentary pulls back the curtain on an industry built on hype, hustle and heartbreak.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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Findings from this research point to heartbreak, following organizational greenwashing and hypocrisy, or false promises to uphold environmental values with no follow through.—
Melissa A. Wheeler,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Humidity is adding to the misery Oppressive humidity is accompanying the heat wave, according to Weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Cuomo, age 67 and one of the last powerful men to succumb to the #MeToo movement, is an unlikely standard-bearer for a Democratic Party desperate to move on from the miseries of the past decade, but New York politics isn’t famous for its uncomplicated options.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
17 June 2025
Noun
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The offensive woes and pitching woes continued for the Mets on Friday night in a 10-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2025
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Fluctuations in American tariff policies may not be the only contributor to watch export woes.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
19 June 2025
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“Pathos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathos. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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