Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story.
en.wikipedia.org There is an ever-present sense that an underlying source makes the city a hot spot, active with desire, intellect, pathos.
en.wikipedia.org The various protagonist insects often perform anthropomorphic activities, displaying ironically portrayed intelligence, enjoyment and, sometimes, pathos.
en.wikipedia.org I am fighting for tenderness, for pathos, for individuality; for names that touch me..., for everything that you are determined to oppress and erase.
en.wikipedia.org Yet the painting is generally seen in the light of pathos and tragedy, as the sitter died within a year of the work being completed.
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