Before this he tries to make Lennie's last moments happy by conjuring, in a big, pathos-laden duet, their shared dreams of a farm of their own.
He contrives a life-threatening emergency that injects this otherwise weightless, jokey book with a big dose of pathos.
It allows her to dramatize both his shape-shifting and her efforts to pin him down, and its insufficiency is a big part of the pathos in this first collection.
Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club, who gave the episode a B+ grade, said the episode included both pathos and "big laughs".
By the end, as she reached out in a beautifully timed split-second appeal, Ms. Alexopoulos seemed a malfunctioning robot as devastating as Paul Taylor's Big Bertha but full of pathos, a lost object of anonymous lust.
Many great writers use pathos.
Every last detail is calculated to reap maximum pathos; not just the big things – Mouchette's sick mother dies with gut-wrenching timing – but the incidentals, too.
The pathos is heightened by Big Edie's bedridden singing of classic show tunes: she's a graceful master of timing and tone, a nearly great artist who squandered her chances and her life.
It is your one remaining chance to get that inflection right, to time that particular laugh, to wring every drop of pathos out of your big speech in act three.
It felt right in the show's wheelhouse, mixing big-picture satire and small-bore pathos, and I made the leap of faith.
At the end of her show she sometimes sings a Gladys Knight song or another big standard, sincerely delivered and with surprising pathos.
