Sentence examples for less pathos from inspiring English sources

Thirty-nine yeago ago this winner's ceremony was conducted with less pathos but more of Hill's dry wit.

Tom Hunter's "The Way Home", from his series Life and Death in Hackney is given more, not less pathos by having the supine girl depicted against the hedge of green strips that looms between her and the just-visible signs of home.

Never has there been an actor who inspires less pathos.

Their story is told in he says/she says chapters, in unadorned, confessional language that has a certain coarse pathos but less beauty than de Bernières's usual writing.

Gone is London on loan from Dickens, traded in, it seems, for a whaling ship from Melville, though with less beard-stroking pathos and with a lizard standing in for the white whale.

The generalized pathos, however, needs less than a multitude of illustrations.

Actually, in its combination of farce and pathos, Scoop derives less inspiration from Ethiopia than from the world of Waugh's brilliant early fiction such as Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies.

Played less for comedy than for pathos, Marguerite deftly captures the infatuation and delusional behavior of a rich woman who, though besotted with art, has no talent.

Nonetheless, it will be easiest, as well as consistent with the bulk of Aristotle's analyses, to treat pathos as more or less equivalent to desire, or appetite in the broad sense.

It's less emotionally involving than its predecessor: the pathos here is on the margins, with old Mr Russell and his dog Rocket, or the non-romance between dweeby Billy and the woman in the front row.

This may give the President's words an added pathos, but it leaves them no less true.