pathos

• He mournfully drew With pathos, the picture of that earnest youth So unlike his own; how in beauty and truth He had nurtured that nature, so simple and brave And how he had striven his son's youth to save From the errors so sadly redeem'd in his own And so deeply repented: how thus, in that son In whose youth he had garner'd his age, he had seem'd To be bless'd by a pledge that the past was redeem'd And forgiven. —  Lucile
• This picture of the aged and forlorn statesman, accompanied only by his faithful hound, is perhaps the best of the artist's achievements of dignity and pathos--worthy of being named with "Dropping the Pilot" of Sir John Tenniel. —  The History of "Punch"
• 'Lob Lie-by-the-fire' has humor and pathos, and teaches what is right without making children think they are reading a sermon." —  Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life
• 15).--The case of pathos, a person coming back to places, recalling the days of youth after a long woe, is quite unknown to the ancients--nay, the maternal affection itself, though used inevitably, is never consciously reviewed as an object of beauty Duties arise everywhere, but--do not mistake--not under their sublime form as duties. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• It was a beautiful movement marked andante sostenuto_--pathos itself, and Von Barwig drew from his men their very souls, forcing them in turn to draw out of their strings all the suffering he had been going through for the past few days. —  The Music Master Novelized from the Play

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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