Word: pathic
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...brittle sostenuto of streamline, pathic pain...
...genius who led a Welsh-French army toward the London of Henry IV, and died a hermit. Its hero, a venturesome Oxford student named Rhisiart, is a young man with a "narrow skull . . . predatory beak and snatching lips." He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies...
...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...
...born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...
...their hangovers; a good deal about their transports but not so much about their quarrels. And the wisecracks that seemed in O'Hara's earlier books to be wrenched from the speakers like snarls of pain seem in Hope of Heaven pat and smug, more pretentious than pathic...