Francesca Dotto's Violetta evoked pathos in the closing moments and Antonio Poli's rolling tenor compensated for ill-defined characterisation.
Though much of "Wine Up" dwells on the club part of that journey it is the most eventful segment there's something about those crystalline opening chords that evokes pathos and promise: that giddy, queasy rush you get in the cab on the way out.
Instead, Trevorrow simply tips his hat knowingly toward Spielberg's back catalogue, reprising the dinosaur-eye-seen-by-terrorised-kids from Jurassic Park, evoking the pathos of ET as a placid herbivore lies wounded ("Ouch!"), even riffing on Susan Backlinie's violent demise in Jaws (Michael Giacchino's score comes close to quoting John Williams's sharky terror theme).
It really does get into visceral von Trier territory, particularly in the hardly-simulated sex scenes, evoking a pathos for Bess that opera audiences may have felt for Madame Butterfly a half-score and about a hundred years before Nymphomaniac.
But Tatum, as the over-muscled, always simmering Mark, and Ruffalo, as his quietly concerned and caring older sibling, are every bit his match in evoking the pathos and pain of characters searching for emotional connections that absent parents never gave them.
Her dour husband, Michele, a superb Lucio Gallo, evoked electrifying pathos.
He could evoke the pathos of a dying samurai warror, the seductive beauty of a courtesan or the impish humour of a wild animal.
(There's a clumsy quality in Parks's own title, quite possibly deliberate and intended to evoke the pathos of ailments that are embarrassing but serious matters. The subtitle makes this duality explicit.
There is neither story nor specific characters, but with the lightest touch Mr. Wheeldon evokes the pathos and humor of the human condition as seen through the prism of the commedia dell'arte.
You might have expected any manner of soapy squalling and wailing, but that single, noble tear hints rather ominously at the book's self-imposed limitations -- its willingness to evoke the pathos and privations of childhood without straying beyond the bounds of the recognizably cute.
