Sentence examples for human pathos from inspiring English sources

The scientifically literate French novelist Michel Houellebecq has managed the cunning paradox of espousing a violent anti-humanism while bringing to bleakly vivid life real human pathos and despair.

In his standup, Garlin mines human pathos – mostly his own.

Who would have thought that bar graphs (admittedly, with the help of haunting music) could overflow with human pathos?

Like Arvo Pärt, there's a sense that it's liturgical almost, that it's dealing with really deep human pathos.

Allotted by the government, and based on Geiger readings, the visits are meant to be opportunities for the refugees to reclaim bits of their blasted lives, pasted together in rushed acts of human pathos.

The contemporary fairy tales in Aimee Bender's second collection, WILLFUL CREATURES: Stories (Anchor, $13), alternate between zany scenarios imbued with human pathos and apparently ordinary stories pitched at oblique angles.

The stark human tragedy, pathos and sense of heartbreak were weighed up against potential privacy issues and the risk of repelling the reader with indecent bluntness.

In addition to the political messages they carried (either directly or indirectly), Verdi's instinct for communicating the messy adventure of being human with pathos, empathy, and thrilling drama was simply unparalleled.

The story of the 1963 assassination is so compelling, so full of human drama and pathos and, to this day, mystery – even those who accept that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole killer cannot agree on his true motive – that it refuses to rest.

By Rebecca Mead In ordinary lives Eliot perceived human nature's "deep pathos, its sublime mysteries".

For Rodin, at the dawn of modern art, their sins become heroic as human passion throbs with pathos.