The play " exploits several archetypal forms and situations, all of which lend themselves to both comedy and pathos.

She wrote in her autobiography: " They used to tell me their stories, dreadful stories some of them, and all of them pathetic with that patient and uncomplaining pathos of poverty.

This simple morality tale with its pathos and theme of redemption significantly redefined the " spirit " and importance of Christmas, since, as Margaret Oliphant recalled, it " moved us all those days ago as if it had been a new gospel.

The admirably fresh and breezy " Ladies of St James's " has precisely the qualities we have traced in his other 18th-century poems ; there are ballades and rondeaus, with all the earlier charm ; and in " A Revolutionary Relic ," as in " The Child Musician " of the Old-World Idylls, the poet reaches a depth of true pathos which he does not often attempt, but in which, when he seeks it, he never fails.

Logos, pathos, and ethos can all be appropriate at different times.

For all the controversy, Lucian Boia suggests, neither of the Revista Istorică Română publishers was completely beyond Iorga's subjectivity, pathos or political bias, even though Panaitescu was for long " closer " to the Junimist model.

His understanding of life, its pathos and joys, endeared him to all.

There is no need to seek in external vicissitudes an explanation of the pathos of the Winterreise music when the composer was this Schubert who, as a boy of seventeen, had the imagination to fix Gretchen's cry in music once for all, and had so quivered year by year in response to every appeal, to Mignon's and the Harper's grief, to Mayrhofer's nostalgia.

The story mixes pathos and humour, all the while illustrating the dilemmas of immigrants and their offspring as they are confronted by a new, and very different, society.

A critic in The Times wrote that " there must be something strangely perverse in an imagination which souses Ophelia in a weedy ditch, and robs the drowning struggle of that lovelorn maiden of all pathos and beauty ", while a further review in the same newspaper said that " Mr. Millais's Ophelia in her pool ... makes us think of a dairymaid in a frolic ".

Otherwise, this painting exhibited nearly all the best technical qualities to which he ever attained, except high finish and clearness, and a very sincere vein of pathos.

For Ron Rosenbaum, Ravelstein was Bellow's greatest novel: " It's a rapturous celebration of the life of the mind, as well as a meditation on the glory of sensual life and on the tenebrous permeable boundary we all eventually pass over, the one between life and death ... a novel Bellow wrote in his 80s, which I found absolutely, irresistibly seductive, both sensually and intellectually, one in which the sublimity and pathos of life and art are not joined to each other with heavy welds but transformed into a beautiful, seamless, unravelable fabric.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated, " The Retford imp was, and still is, one of the most fondly admired figures in the game ... the rolling gait and big sad eyes make him Chaplinesque – and like all clowns, there is pathos behind the public image ... At times, genius sat on Randall's shoulders – the only trouble was it would not stop fidgeting ".

Martin also noticed that Lewis was playing comedy scenes for pathos and greed and staging more of the action himself, having lost vision of what their comedy team-up was all about in the first place.

" All of his work is sincere, and all consists of equal doses of seriousness and play, pathos and humor, intricacy and simplicity.

They were also very human, charged with moral significance but with pathos, and with humour, too – after all, the Dreamtime creatures were not austere divinities, but fallible beings who happened to make the world and everything in it while going about their creaturely business.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

The pathos of Handel's oratorios is an ethical one.

Lyricism is the pathos of a force whose triumphant effort enters into action and encounters no obstacle.

A bad feeling ( pathos ) " is a disturbance of the mind repugnant to Reason, and against Nature.

The word pathology is from Ancient Greek, pathos, " feeling, suffering "; and ,-logia, " the study of ".

His is a solitary voice, and his estrangement, however comic, bears the pathos of the portraits — Watteau's chief among them — that we will encounter in the centuries to come.

Dialectics is also different from rhetoric, wherein the speaker uses logos, pathos, or ethos to persuade listeners to take their side of the argument.

Greek heroes also act in accordance with individuality, but in ancient tragedy such individuality is necessarily ... a self-contained ethical pathos ... In modern tragedy, however, the character in its peculiarity decides in accordance with subjective desires ... such that congruity of character with outward ethical aim no longer constitutes an essential basis of tragic beauty ..." ( Hegel, ed.

The publication Moving Picture World gave the film as a whole a positive review: " Brilliant in subtitle, strong in treatment with occasional notes of true pathos, the marks of creative ability and sure craftmanship are there .... the cast is without flaw.

Aristotle goes on to consider whether the tragic character suffers ( pathos ), and whether the tragic character commits the error with knowledge of what he is doing.

Cytopathology ( from Greek, kytos, " a hollow ";, pathos, " fate, harm "; and ,-logia ) is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level.

Chaplin injected moments of drama and pathos unheard of in slapstick comedies ( the tramp is felled by a gunshot wound, and then disappointed in romance ).

All of his forms are rendered with rich, warm colourisation and a sympathetic expression, while he is known for his expressive pathos and naturalism.

His style is clear, unadorned, and somewhat lacking in force ; he appeals to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and is seldom picturesque, though in describing a few famous scenes, such as the execution of Charles I, he writes with pathos and dignity.

When the film was released, Variety gave the film a favorable review: " There is no attempt to gloss the character of Barbara Graham, only an effort to understand it through some fine irony and pathos.

Of a higher order is The Complaint of Rosamond, a soliloquy in which the ghost of the murdered woman appears and bewails her fate in stanzas of exquisite pathos.

* Warren Beatty is a " surprising newcomer " and an " amiable, decent, sturdy lad whose emotional exhaustion and defeat are the deep pathos in the film "

His best monumental work is admired for its pathos and simplicity, and for the alliance of a truly Greek instinct for rhythmical design and composition with the spirit of domestic tenderness and innocence that is one of the secrets of the modern soul.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it " A fun episode, with Rodney Dangerfield putting a lot of pathos into Larry – and Homer's impassioned speech atop the cinema at the climax is one of his funniest moments.

The word ' pathetic ' in this use is related to ' pathos ' or ' empathy ' ( capability of feeling ), and is not pejorative.

The new generation of poets distanced themselves from both the neo-romantics and the modernists: led by S. K. Neumann, their work focused on concrete reality, free of any pathos, or complicated symbolism.

" The heroes of ancient classical tragedy encounter situations in which, if they firmly decide in favor of the one ethical pathos that alone suits their finished character, they must necessarily come into conflict with the equally justified ethical power that confronts them.

used subtler humour, derived from the dialogue and characterisation, often interspersed with sentimentality ( as the Lads mourned their lost past ) and even touches of pathos.

The technique again works to Collins's credit: the sections by Gabriel Betteredge ( steward to the Verinder household ) and Miss Clack ( a poor relative and religious crank ) offer both humour and pathos through their contrast with the testimony of other narrators, at the same time as constructing and advancing the novel's plot.

The magnificent piece in praise of winter, the solemn and beautiful cadences of " Departure ," and the homely but elevated pathos of " The Toys ," are in their manner unsurpassed in English poetry.

The earnestness and gravity of moral purpose which is so constant a note in the work of Hogarth is indeed far less characteristic of Leech, but there are touches of pathos and of tragedy in such of the Punch designs as the Poor Man's Friend ( 1845 ), and General Février turned Traitor ( 1855 ), and in The Queen of the Arena in the first volume of Once a Week, which are sufficient to prove that more solemn powers, for which his daily work afforded no scope, lay dormant in their artist.

Swinburne described these as " unsurpassed even by their author himself for noble and heroic pathos, for subtle and genial, tragic and profound, ardent and compassionate insight into character, with consummate mastery of dramatic and spiritual truth.

Because of their plangent cantabile melodic lines, evocatively free, non-strophic construction and adagio pace, operatic laments have remained vividly memorable soprano or mezzo-soprano arias even when separated from the emotional pathos of their operatic contexts.

Eliza Carthy praised the band for their " pathos disguised with wit and sarcasm ", describing Blackwell as a " genius ".

The poems were marked by their tonal variety, the naturalness with which they could move between formal and informal registers, between humour and pathos, intimacy and controlled anger and, especially, in their assumption of easy vernacular familiarity with New Zealand readers.

, literally " the pathos of things ", and also translated as " an empathy toward things ", or " a sensitivity to ephemera ", is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of, or transience of things, and a gentle sadness ( or wistfulness ) at their passing.

A good idea of these dramas for reading and recitation, with their accompaniment of cold, rhetorical pathos and their strong leaning toward the horrible, may be gained by the plays of Seneca.

It also contains a rare Lightfoot foray into the protest song genre, in the form of the longest track on the album, " The Patriot's Dream ," a ballad describing the enthusiasm of soldiers on a troop train " riding off to glory in the spring of their years ," followed by the pathos of a woman receiving news that her husband's aircraft had been shot down in combat.

Pathos is a proof that “ is an appeal to an audience ’ s sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions ” and because pathos appeals to the deepest parts of the audience ’ s being “ many rhetoricians over the centuries have considered pathos the strongest of the appeals ” because the pathos proof involves “ the power of emotion to sway the mind ” ( Fahnestock 14 ).