Sentences with word «pathos»

Kerlidou writes: «Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

The film's unusual tone finds plenty of wicked humor in the story but explores a deep, unexpected sense of pathos in Harding's rejection by the establishment of figure skating for her working - class background and hard - charging style.

With unprecedented access to the private Shockley archives at Stanford, Shurkin fills out this portrait of a flawed giant with pathos drawn from Shockley's letters, revealing a man crushed under the weight of his own pathological insecurities.

I, Tonya Craig Gillespie delvers a tonally brilliant mix of caustic comedy and genuine pathos in this uncompromising story of Tonya Harding, an Olympic skater implicated in a conspiracy to maim her chief rival.

The experiences and the suffering his figures seemingly undergo are representative of the ancient Greek concept of pathos as defined by Greek philosophers even before Aristotle's Rhetoric.

It loses much of its humor and liveliness in the process, but there's real pathos in watching Hoffman fall further and further into a hell of his own devising.

The robbery itself is low on pathos (there's not even a villainous businessman, like Andy Garcia in Ocean's Eleven, to cheer against), but Soderbergh smartly grounds it in emotion rather than greed, making a ridiculous scheme sound downright sensible.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

Still a brunette she handles her small supporting role well injecting a touch of pathos into a sketchily drawn part.

The marches and speeches showed what King knew about pathos.

Yet the clownish Riggs is not without pathos, unable to control his own worst impulses even when they threaten his relationships with his wife and son.

Her vulnerability brings pathos to every scene she enters, making you wish the whole film could have been told through Rachel's bleary eyes — and set in England, where she belongs.

It is brilliant typecasting and the play sparkles with wit and verve and even a little pathos for the do - gooder Kyra, who misses the good life of her former lover - employer Tom, since she's now living in a freezing flat and can't even afford to buy edible cheese on her school - teacher - to - the - poor salary.

Dimly aware of the divine pathos which moves at the core of trinitarian faith, Dysart asks in the prelude:

Comparisons to Seinfeld have abounded since their concurrent runs, but the key difference is that Shandling puts just enough pathos in his loathsome creations to make their failures viscerally transfer onto the viewer.

Few photographic shows are filled with as much pathos as Leigh Ledare's pining looks at love, need, sex, and passion.

So pathos here doesn't mean being sappy — that's not very likely to boost online course sales.

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.

McDonagh continues his winning streak from Six Shooter and In Bruges here, with a film that has terrific humor and great pathos in equal measure.

Girls wrings humor, beauty, and even pathos out of those old Betamax - cassette effects.

Though we've only seen the first two «Chapters», it's safe to say that Barry could be HBO's next addiction - worthy series, delivering a healthy dose of affecting pathos along with its belly laughs and brutal violence.

Purefoy brings such pathos to Rawdon Crawley, Rhys Meyers is horrendously selfish as George Osbourne, and finally, in small roles we have Lady Catherine de Bough herself, from the famous 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, and John Woodvine as her husband.

And I was great at pathos.

Serkis directs with confidence and a nostalgic feel for old fashion Hollywood, finding a perfect balance between pathos and humour.

The scrappiness of the pieces provides the context for abjection, but the real pathos comes from the relationships they depict.

It's both surprising and disappointing that, after ten Friday the 13th films (or rather, ten Jason films), it took a crossover with Freddy Krueger to coax genuine pathos out of a hulking man - child who refused to die until he could sufficiently please Mommy.

It may even gain a little added pathos along the way.

The jury behind the first ever Emotional Game Awards announced its nominees for 2015's most pathos - inducing games today in a press release.

Drawing from commercial displays infused with his own dark sentimentality, Ito says that this sculpture represents a move away from the taxidermied animals he sometimes incorporates into his constructions as he searches for new ways to evoke pathos without recourse to organic bodies.

While this selfless choice might inevitably lead to his demise, it's the only righteous path that his Catholic worldview and personal pathos allow for.

It is here that the full human pathos of those dark days hits home.

Backed by a feverish score from musical savant Alexander Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Argo), The Light Between Oceans is dripping with pathos so expect emotions to run high and the tears to come fast and loose.

(For example, Bach intuited the cosmic feeling of divine pathos in the key of B - minor, as exhibited in the «Mass in B Minor» and «St. Matthew's Passion.»)

Margot Robbie hits her marks as maligned Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, but this bruising docu - comedy careens erratically between broad satire and unearned pathos while never quite finding its footing outside the rink.

In another person's hands, Lars would have probably veered toward comic relief or even mentally disabled, but this incompetent, outrageous robber is given pathos by Hawke's no - holds - barred performance.

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

While one fends off a gold - digging masseuse and the other denies involvement with a fragile intern — whose tragic arc will be milked for unearned pathos — Guttentag cuts jaggedly between their storylines with inexcusable clumsiness.

Alexander Payne's weird and wonderful environmental satire stars Hollywood's most accomplished everyman, Matt Damon (whose aging face adds pathos to Downsizing's particular loser, shrunk to 5 inches), and the film chugs along nicely — until Chau jolts it to life.

But Anton Yelchin brings surprising pathos to his final role as the small - time drug dealer the girls dupe into being involved in their grimly amusing plot.

Katy Grannan, with a touch of Arbus - like mockery, photographs strangers as they would wish to see themselves — dreams of private transcendence tinged by comic pathos.

This is because the sufferer in and through his or her pain - pathos knows that God participates in human pain.

When Amy, who bore the first of her two kids at 20, laments that she feels like she missed out on her 20s, Bad Moms briefly elicits pathos from that inevitable sense of loss that comes with becoming a full - time parent — the realization that your own life is, to some degree, over.

In his book The Prophets, Heschel writes that bearing the Divine Pathos is «an act formed with intention... the result of decision and determination.»

Similarly, every amusing faux pas also brings with it an underlying pathos due to the unfortunate reality of their disorder.

This notion that God can be intimately affected, that he possesses not merely intelligence and will, but also pathos, basically defines the prophetic consciousness of God,» 30