Word: patheticism
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The Shylock that Shakespeare drew was no type; he was an intensely individual man, with many facets to his make-up. Whatever the playwright intended, the character is so complex that it can readily be treated as essentially farcical, or villainous, or sentimental, or patriarchal, or pathetic, or tragic, or...
The BostonTranscript, voice of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, was badly hurt in the depression, yet its publisher dragged on until 1941. Finally, but only after months of pathetic appeals for financial aid (some of which actually appeared in the Transcript), the paper went under. In 1956, the Boston post, the...
WAGNER: TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (5 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Just as the lovers sing in darkest Liebesnacht of the light that shines within them, this recording illuminates Wagner's murky masterpiece. Taped live at Bayreuth last summer, it is by far the best interpretation yet. Most of the credit goes...
I found it low, pathetic and obscene.
I, too, support our fighting men in Viet Nam. In fact, I support them so much that I propose bringing them all safely home rather than rooting them on to their pathetic deaths for a cause that requires video tapes to convince them that their efforts are somehow warranted.