Sentences with phrase «about pathos»

Even before he / she thinks about pathos; even before he / she acts to remove or redress or overcome this pathos, pain - pathos is simply there.

Not exact matches

All ancient talk about rhetoric refers to three elements — ethos, pathos and logos; 18th - century thinkers added a fourth — occasion or context.

We know more about (logos) God and we know more of God (pathos) than Job ever did, namely through the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

No matter how passionately you may hold it (pathos)-- no matter how sound your argument is (logos)-- no matter how respectable a person you are (ethos), this weepy argument about a comic book America is unpersuasive to the typical a **** le who will never disappear despite one's good intentions.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

It's just that there's an extra layer of pathos if we're talking about women, especially «older «women — Aniston is 49, hardly «older» but 49 nonetheless.

And if it is 1960 and the kids watched the movie, «The Five Pennies» enough times, they can even lie very well with amazing detail and pathos about polio.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

For all its fickle tonal shifts, lurching from forced farce to dramatic pathos, it's still hard to get too angry about.

But every time your eyes are about to roll back into your head at the film's slovenly direction and editing, it'll throw in moments of pathos or images of eerie beauty (everything involving gold or water is aces).

The film manages a certain pathos in simply watching Maurice go about his life.

Tagar is howlingly funny from the first moment that we see her, an entirely complete comic creation, but what's truly impressive about the performance is how she gives it texture and nuance as it goes on: when she returns in the third segment, Daffi's gone through officer training and has a new - found responsibility, or at least the pressure to look responsible, and there's truth and pathos in the way it tests her friendship with Zohar.

Whereas «Skyfall» explored the emotional backstory of the world's most famous secret agent and served up unexpected pathos along with the action, «Spectre» is all about the set pieces.

Baumbach clearly cares about his flummoxed protagonists, and uses them as cyphers for his own angst about middle age, often in genuine, self - deprecating fashion, giving the humor a real sense of pathos even during the most light - hearted gags.

Fabianne Therese and Nichole Bloom are both fantastic in the fresh and exhilarating film, balancing romance, genre thrills, humor, and pathos with considerable skill, and I spoke with the stars about their new movie at the SXSW film festival.

If there's a drawback in the biopic department, it is that for all the pathos on show, we learn little about Turing's later accomplishments; also his imprisonment feels slightly glossed over in the final act.

The film is so lackadaisical about telling a story and milking the deaths for pathos that a funny thing happens: the stock characters are allowed some space and room to breathe and they come alive.

Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, an unofficial sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 film The Last Detail, is similarly a buddy road movie that blends humour, pathos and subversive cynicism about the damage done to men who become soldiers.

For every new story idea or impressive blend of humor and pathos in its writing, Yo - kai Watch 2 fails to breathe life into the act of actually playing it, and until something's done about all the issues with combat, no amount of delicious doughnuts can cover up its problems.

And although the film feels strongly familiar in pathos and promise it is still a capable message movie about disenfranchised youngsters that overcome their desperately humble beginnings in the face of unflattering odds.

It's deceptively simple, a comedy with serious pathos about a teenage girl and her mother.

Reeves knows how to eke pathos from CGI and heartbreak from teenaged vampires: He's perfect for this story about the beasts that lie within.

Peter Bradshaw: Our countdown continues with a masterstroke of power and pathos: Michael Haneke's haunting film about the end of a life

In addition to the beauty of the visual effects, James McAvoy has called Dark Phoenix, «the most emotional X-Men we've done and the most pathos - driven,» which makes for an interesting balance and may ease the minds of fans who worry about tackling the Dark Phoenix on the big screen.

The real Sarah Winchester was deeply ambivalent about the source of her fortune, and has endured, long after her death, as a figure of pathos and sadness (the Winchester Mystery House remains a profitable tourist destination as well).

Farrell's talents might be forgotten at times, but here he shows incredible pathos as he delivers a speech about the ramifications of his actions, ending with the incredibly touching line: «That ain't ever going away.

On every level, it's a film about unlikely marriages: of documentary and fiction, comedy and pathos, live - action and animation, and, of course, of Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner.

Well, it says something about the dismal quality of «Justice League» that it managed to entirely squander the pathos and fear of Superman's (Henry Cavill) resurrection.

Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos — or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos.

Effect would be, say, the pathos or tragedy felt by the reader in a narrative about two people vainly attempting happiness in marriage.

If you like stories about close knit friends & families with a little pathos & humor, you will love these books.

The central theme becomes less about the immediate subject at hand; instead resonating more in the relationship between object and viewer, highlighting the pathos and inevitability of forces that are greater than both.

«If you add funny puppy dogs over an image of someone being tortured, then in a sense what we're doing is that we're asking whether the pathos of the Goya work can be taken seriously,» says Jake Chapman about their approach to Francisco Goya to whose surreal and dark paintings, brim - full of pathos, they add unexpected elements.

Yet his is not emptiness refined into chic minimalism, but instead a sparseness that commands the space and speaks with dystopian pathos about the human condition in our present moment.

Dandies are a recurring theme in Bas» oftentimes pathos - infused works, and when his protagonists aren't bare - chested, they're donning spiffy blazers, Victorian ruffs, sweater vests and harlequin bodysuits as they explore caves (the Hardy Boys inspired one series of paintings) or romantically row boats — although the artist says this is more about costume than fashion.

It also prompted the British art critic David Sylvester (1924 - 2001) to write about the «cosmic grandeur» of Newman and the «cosmic pathos» of Mark Rothko.

Guston's painting is lumpen, ugly, funny, full of pathos, and as full of doubt as Labille - Guiard's is full of confidence (and bravura painting technique) but is equally as chock full of information about the artist and their position in the world.

However, thinking about the writing you love and why you love it can help you bring your own persuasive skills, your own pathos and ethos, to your work, rather than your work being an attempt at pure logic.

Aristotle's influential division of effective rhetoric into logos, ethos, and pathos is overtly acknowledged in many legal writing scholars» works about advocacy, 6 and implicitly underlies much if not most of the rest.

It's just that there's an extra layer of pathos if we're talking about women, especially «older «women — Aniston is 49, hardly «older» but 49 nonetheless.