Sentence examples for pathetic emotion from inspiring English sources

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Count your blessings every day and be a bit grateful from time to time Minimise the negativity in your life by limiting your anger etc to 10 seconds a day Try to discern the motives of those in your life and act accordingly Use self-compassion not self-pity which is a pathetic emotion Paint your world better every day - just take a few minutes to imagine it a better place according to you.

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Pathos, or pathetic appeals, seek to evoke emotion in order to gain approval.

Landscapes by John Warwick Smith and John Robert Cozens use the pathetic fallacy and give strong emotions to nature.

Pathetic fallacy, poetic practice of attributing human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals.

In an effort to appear more compassionate, many managers are taking a kinder, gentler approach, displaying emotions that range from empathetic to simply pathetic.

It is a variation of the pathetic fallacy (the view of Romantic poets that weather mirrors emotions) to suggest that rural tranquillity induces moral rectitude.

These emotions must be alien, freakish, sad, embarrassing, humiliating, immature, pathetic.

This is an album that vacillates wildly between extremes of emotion – from the reflective mood of the country-blues-styled "The Pathetic Anthem" to the Napalm Death-like growl of "I'm Alright".

In 1856, in the third volume of "Modern Painters," Ruskin criticized writers for attributing human emotions to the natural world, a tendency that he famously termed the pathetic fallacy.

Since hearing Tony Blair's pathetic comments that liberals were marching to defend a tyrant, I've felt a rush of emotions similar to that day, a moment that hasn't happened before.

How pathetic.

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