Pathetic - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Doloroso
Plaintive pathetic used adverbially as a musical direction...
Feelingly
In a feeling manner pathetically sympathetically...
VerbarLacrimoso
Plaintive a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style...
VerbarLanguente
In a languishing manner pathetically...
Lydian
Of or pertaining to Lydia a country of Asia Minor or to its inhabitants hence soft effeminate said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys the music in which was of a soft pathetic or voluptuous character...
Melodrama
Formerly a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes Now a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic In opera a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment while the actor speaks as the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethovens ldquoFideliordquo...
Pathetic
Expressing or showing anger passionate...
Pathetism
See Mesmerism...
Pathos
That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions esp that which awakens tender emotions such as pity sorrow and the like contagious warmth of feeling action or expression pathetic quality as the pathos of a picture of a poem or of a cry...
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