Word: patheticism
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There is Cousin Honora, a whimsical skinflint who counts out the pennies to Leander's family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even...
As her nesting fever rises, Judy develops some even more outrageous symptoms. One minute she kicks her husband (Richard Conte) out of bed; the next she asks him with a pathetic whine why he always wants to sleep alone. "Look at me," she wails. "I'm a big fat...
There is in most of the poems an agreeable fondness for nature, dogs and music, and a great addiction to.what critics call the pathetic fallacy-the giving of human traits or feelings to inanimate objects. The poorest have the quality of a grownup reaching too far for effect ("this little...
Eden Must Go. Few had anticipated Macmillan's choice: the Economist called it "startling." But for weeks, Tories had known in their hearts that Sir Anthony would have to go; it had only been a question of time. It was not merely that he had miscalculated grievously on a...
But on one point there can be no equivocation. The acting and direction which this production displays is in every way superb, and very likely is the best work to come along this season. Each of the members of the all-Negro cast is an actor of unsurpassed stature. I...