Word: patheticism
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One of Chaplain Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of...
Richards makes this sketch, Bontche Schweig, and the first one, The Tale of Chelm, worthwhile. In making Bontche's request, his one line in the play, he must walk the tightrope between melodrama and pathetic humor, and he does it in perfect balance. The other actors, however, seem too rigid...
The beauty of this moment may belong essentially to Kathryn Humphreys, who plays the young girl--her whole performance, the best in an excellent production, is compellingly pathetic yet radiant--but the whole evening is full of similar small epiphanies, finely executed by the company. The play's success depends...
Mary Grayon is almost ideally cast as the nervously talkative mother, whose busy lack of understanding makes home unbearable for the children she loves. Miss Graydon's slim figure is adroitly made pathetic by the dresses Angela Brown has hung on her; and the break in her voice keeps always...
Peter Gesell's performance as Jim the Gentleman Caller presents something of a problem to the critic. Mr. Williams describes Jim as "a nice, ordinary young man," but he has written the part as a symbol of the expansive American spirit that has destroyed the world of gentility and graces...