You expect a fanfare, you expect some sort of pathos or grandeur to it.
Their dilemma is grounds for pathos, or possibly for satire, but is it grounds for tragedy?
Here the author's habit of minute observation, elsewhere so often prolix, imparts tension and pathos.
Her tone can be bombastic, breathless and laden with pathos, just as it was on the city streets.
But for all of his manifest madness, it is crucial that Willy retain his pathos and never become absurd.
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It caused me to feel real pathos for Microsoft, a company that seems to have no sense of what it is.
His novels have generally dealt in the deep emotional conflicts in Japanese love and marriage, particularly the pathos and tragedy of infidelity.
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Will Self's piece is characteristically writerly, hovering ambivalently between pathos and cynicism.
Yet the screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, and the director, Roger Michell, shamelessly milk the pathos of infirmity, lurching heedlessly from one prefabricated poignancy to another.
It had drama and pathos, casts of characters, villains and heroes.
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For pathos, though, we still have Gollum, the damned and slimy soul (voiced again by Andy Serkis), who lurks in the dark and loses what he loves.
With delicate observation and quietly intense pathos, Dreyer captures the actors in a dappled light and a depth of shadow that seem to illuminate his characters from within.
David Daniels brought exceptional pathos and intensity to Radamisto's laments.
To begin with, however thick Dickens may lay on the paint, however disgusting the "pathos" of Tiny Tim may be, the Cratchit family do give the impression of enjoying themselves.
But such is Kempton's sense of drama, for the grandeur of the clashes he describes, above all for the pathos and irony of failed aspiration, that one ceases to mind.
To do it well, however, requires a combination of preternaturally exact directorial timing and a cast whose members are alert to the underlying pathos of Mr. Ives's bizarrely skewed comic situations.
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If the updating of his connection to the city, through recent footage of his own making, rings somewhat hollow, the pathos of his latter-day distance from it nonetheless comes through poignantly.
Richard Nelson's play, adapted in collaboration with Colin Chambers from Tynan's own diaries, has anecdotes to spare, as one might expect, and a degree of pathos which one might not anticipate.
Anne Heche, as a working mom on a brief furlough from her duties, and Sigourney Weaver, as a divorced teacher in need of a fresh life, find particular pathos in their roles.
The filmmakers keep falling back on pathos and on the easy irony that the main character is, despite his extraordinary gifts, an ordinary boy with the normal emotional needs of any seven-year-old.
Unfortunately for him, much of the pathos he was trying to convey was undone by his occasional flashes of animosity and resentment, plus glimpses of the monumental self-pity he seemed unable to suppress.
Still, Hunt's journey through successive generations of new friends has its own pathos, since his chronic failure ever to get to grips with money tainted the very thing he stood for, namely, good fellowship.
Yet amid the silence there is pathos.
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We have, as Mr Spivey reflects, been programmed to pathos, and the other side of that cultural coin may be our ghoulish fascination for the photo-journalism which captures the last wince and wail of every disaster.
It's above all to Ms. Watson's portrayal of Janet, a heart-rending blend of steel and pathos, and to Dominic West, who brings a serial killer to convincing life onscreen, that this film owes its great power.
One scene, a family dinner where Ricky Bobby says grace in his own unique way, is memorably sharp, and Greg Germann and Molly Shannon bring surprising pathos to small roles as a race-team owner and his alcoholic wife.
At the other end of the spectrum from both Mr Ashbery and Mr Muldoon is someone like Sharon Olds, who writes poetry of sheer, unreconstructed pathos that is not so much autobiographical as autobiological about herself from the neck down.
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