Word: patheticism
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His suggestions have an almost pathetic air. He wants girls to have a chance to talk to "reasonably mature adults." But almost every therapist and educator alive thinks this would be good--how is it to be achieved? Elsewhere he informs us that, "We have no sure formula to prevent...
Pathetic Fallacy. Modern education has deprived all but very senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter...
The reader may feel that he is no more likely to run across a PATHETIC FALLACY than an abominable snowman. But he will be wrong. The term was originated by English Critic John Ruskin "to describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a...
As the Congo's town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out of their homelands last year by the tribal fighting, huddled homeless and hungry in...
The hero is a middle-aged Englishman named Denham who represents a trading firm in the Far East, and who spends a few months' home leave every other year. England, he feels, is decaying, and the trouble is too much freedom, too little stability, widespread amorality brought on by...