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South Park: Paintball, parenthood, and pathos
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If "South Park" was a person, that gen-Zer would be old enough to vote, drink, rent a car, and have a quarter-life crisis.
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Paltrow takes what could easily be the standard non-confrontational, supporting house wife stock character and infuses it with a creeping pathos and dread— grappling with moral conflict over bringing a child into the dark, overbearing world that Fincher has created on-screen.
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Skiba delivers his funny lines with dripping pathos which works for his character.
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Moments like that, shifting from humor to pathos in an instant, are the reason you’ll likely find yourself laughing while holding back tears more than once during the show.
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Fraser brings pathos to this role, though I wish he was given better material, more worthy of his talent.
Source: The New York Times
Great Escape’s production of “Steel Magnolias” succeeds because it delivers humor, pathos and insight into the web of support surrounding the six female friends depicted in this moving story.
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Its humor and pathos make “The Flick” an absorbing night in the theater, kin to the social commentary of Barbara Ehrenreich and Ira Glass’s “This American Life.
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You're coming out of these dances and carols and then you have this moment that has so much pathos and depth to it.
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Petri Poikolainen is exceptional in this delicate two-hander, bringing genuine pathos and charm to a role that many will see as a game-changer.
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Mitzen scores with Casey’s ballad “Safer,” finding the pathos and wry self-reflective moments without overplaying either.
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Even the moments of pathos and sadness end up feeling neatly packaged.
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We see just enough of the light-hearted young woman watching episodes of Dynasty to learn television structure — a character detail that, thus far, has paid no dividends — that there’s effective pathos in watching first the joy, and then even the spirited curiosity, drain.
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Fraser brings pathos to this role, though I wish he was given better material, more worthy of his talent.
Source: The New York Times
You could track Jon Huffman’s transformations from the self-regarding Malvolio in “TN” through the wounded, weakened pathos of King Edward IV in “RIII,” and then to one of the comic capstones of the season, his French-inflected Doctor Caius in “MWW.
Source: Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO Weekly)
Aside from the eponymous Clown Prince of Crime, the film also prominently features Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl), now Commissioner of the GCPD alongside an older version of Tim Drake (aka Robin), making for a bat-family reunion that both touches on the complicated dynamic between Bruce Wayne and his proteges while adding further dimension and pathos to Terry’s own tenure as the Dark Knight.
Source: Polygon
No other series can veer so wildly from moments of slapstick comedy to tear-jerking pathos and always stick the landing: a promising indication that Reservation Dogs will be a mainstay of these rankings for many years to come.
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"There's a huge pathos to seeing something with grand ambitions have such a short usage.
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Broken Greek by Pete PaphidesThe model of the music-writer-memoir-with-a-twist, the twist being that the book covers only Paphides’ childhood – but it explains with enormous wit, warmth and pathos why pop music came to be his life-consuming passion.
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Even silly characters, like the Mad Hatter, if you add some pathos and some genuine human emotion to that character, then suddenly they’ll be quite a bit more interesting than they were previously.
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As the morally ambiguous Michael Sullivan, Tom Hanks (and his mustache) injects a compelling pathos into his portrayal as a troubled gangster.
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Taking understandable liberties with the source material, he weaves a tapestry of magic and pathos out of the story of Sara Crewe, who finds her life of privilege turned upside down when her father sends her to a girls’ boarding school.
Source: The New York Times
Burrows and her director, Elina de Santos, have created a good piece of theater, one that delivers comedy and pathos wrapped up in a dysfunctional family.
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
The audience was unable to glean the funny story of the cow sending the narrator flying into a pile of dung in “Marie Madeleine” or fully comprehend the deep pathos of “Duerme Negrito,” though the singers did their best to convey the meanings in their performance.
Source: Chicago Classical Review
Zayas’s performance is near-revelatory, commanding attention with a sweet-natured charisma and deep sense of pathos in the play’s opening monologue — a remarkable barstool meditation on everyday blessings, relationships, and sobriety that’s as touching as it is funny — and sustaining those throughout what could have been an easy trap for mawkishness.
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By interpretation, the pathos of the figure in the painting is transferred to Tanya who is always crying.
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But there’s real pathos in Beck’s performance.
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But how does one “ghost” their lifelong best friend, in a town so small that all its residents can fit into the same small parish on Sunday? This is the question at the heart of writer-director Martin McDonagh’s pitch-perfect black comedy, which mines the situation for as much humor and pathos as possible.
Source: Baltimore Magazine
Taking understandable liberties with the source material, he weaves a tapestry of magic and pathos out of the story of Sara Crewe, who finds her life of privilege turned upside down when her father sends her to a girls’ boarding school.
Source: The New York Times
Director Roger Neame, influenced by his past in melodramas, adds pathos to these stories.
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For the musical, in 2002, the part went to Harvey Fierstein, who brought great pathos to a role which is, at best, sketchy.
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Always walking the line between the genuine pathos of the story and the inherent absurdity of these scruffy little puppets, The Muppet Christmas Carol is a genuinely warmhearted holiday affair with Caine giving every ounce of his very considerable acting talent to the effort without once seeming above the material.
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The pathos of “Sort Of” sneaks up on you, even when you’re in mid-laugh.
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After an eight-year, health-related hiatus, the maestro risks scathing self-critiques and real vulnerability on a set melding the pathos of the chansonnier tradition with a flawlessly executed fusion of instrumentation and beats from all over the globe.
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No one can pull this sort of thing off like Saunders, who wraps his judgments about American decline and middle-class pathos into wild leaps of pitch-dark comedy.
Source: Vogue
Her voice is muted and resigned through most of it, but when she slips into the chorus, she betrays the hope she has for the future: “Do you hear what they say? How can I give it away, wanting it to last another day?” It’s not too much to ask, and her song achieves a real pathos in that moment, tugging with strings and the sweet sadness of her melody.
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Intrigued, I watched it; both the humor and the pathos felt like something a U.
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Over the Edge
I don’t like it when comics decide to go for easy pathos and just kill off a bunch of characters in an alt-reality work, but it does say something about your world if doing so is the sort of thing that at least generates macabre interest.
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The audience can only laugh at them, never with them, and never are allowed the opportunity to feel any pathos or empathy for them.
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After this, however, a pathos takes over the second half, and it is genuinely moving.
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Creamcheese’s convincing combination of overconfidence and insecurity makes him maddening and endearing, and Brooks brings the pathos that elevates his camera-hogging character into much more than a caricature.
Source: The Ringer
And one notices that his tender, enlivening touch with light was at its best between the late twenties and thirties, with the pictures from the forties and beyond—with Hopper stubbornly sticking to his mise en scène, as real artists always do—becoming less gracefully lit and more stolidly imagined, in often uneasy, blocky forms, with a more obvious pathos of alienation.
Source: The New Yorker
Fraser brings pathos to this role, though I wish he had been given better material, more worthy of his talent.
Source: The New York Times
The movie invents a more pathos-rich dramatic arc.
Source: Los Angeles Times
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