Word: patheticism
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The subtlety with which she shrouds the butchery is Mme. Jakubowska's greatest achievement. A Nazi officer killing a child whistles unconcernedly throughout; another SS man calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the...
There seemed to be a good chance that the President's military aide had done so only for the most pathetic of rewards-for flattery, good fellowship and a fool's false sense of power.
Down in the Valley is made to that measure. No scenery is needed, and fewer than a dozen singers, none of whom needs any great vocal range or agility. The story is pathetic enough to sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her...
In postwar Germany, where no planes are being built (because the occupation powers forbid it), Willy Messerschmitt, after a denazification court fined him $200 and let him go, might have become a pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was...
Going Along. Nora now has a new interest in the classical. This week she will try her first Giselle at the Met. Says Nora: "I used to think Giselle was just silly. Now I find her rather sweet and pathetic."