What's the difference between pathos and poignancy?

Pathos


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patho-anatomic findings in the liver and the causes of death are discussed in detail.
  • (2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (3) Organ explant culture models offer several significant advantages for studies of patho-physiologic mechanisms like cell injury, secretion, differentiation and structure development.
  • (4) In the (patho)-physiological range the three instruments may provide suitable results for the clinician.
  • (5) The relevant literature is reviewed and patho-physiological mechanisms of mirror reversal are discussed.
  • (6) The patho-anatomic picture and isolation of toxoplasma strains from the brain of dead sheep or their foetuses which had the antibodies in the blood before death -- all this demonstrated the occurrence of congenital infection.
  • (7) An improved understanding of the patho-physiological and biochemical changes that occur in shock states has led to new and innovative pharmacologic approaches to shock reversal.
  • (8) We used the patho-physiologic classification and divided the patients in the groups of preeclampsia and chronic hypertension.
  • (9) Review of the literature on the role of Helicobacter pylori (HP) in the patho- and morphogenesis of chronic gastritis (CG) type B, gastric ulcer (GU) and duodenal ulcer (DU) is presented.
  • (10) The patho-anatomical details of bone and soft tissues including the orbit and paranasal sinuses are well demonstrated.
  • (11) Studies demonstrating in some patients interactions between LAC and either humoral factors with important functions in the (patho-) physiology of thrombosis, endothelial cells or platelets strongly suggest that LAC represents autoantibodies with pathogenic significance.
  • (12) A patho-causal connection between the anomaly and the tuberculosis of the skin cannot be excluded, because this may arise easier in an area of disturbed blood supply.
  • (13) The movie is filled with visual effects, car chases, fights, a party that descends into drug-fuelled paranoia and moments of true pathos.
  • (14) Remarks on the patho-etiology, symptoms and treatment of this rare entity entailing a truly surgical emergence.
  • (15) As regards education, an approach from the point of view of pathology is essential for the time being in transmitting the understanding of processes of disease, based on morbid-anatomical and patho-biological findings.
  • (16) There is reason to believe that the degree of area stenosis calculated from frequency shift and predicted normal values gives a more true interpretation of functional stenosis than angiography, while the latter might be superior for evaluating vascular patho-anatomy, giving information also about intrathoracic and intracranial vessels, which also is important for evaluating patients with TIA and related symptoms.
  • (17) The key problems of the atherosclerosis patho- and morphogenesis in the light of the development of N. N. Anichkov's ideas are discussed.
  • (18) Setting out with the theory of glomerulonephritis from Volhard and Fahr (1914) and the fundamental patho-anatomical examinations on this subject by Theodor Fahr (1925, 1934) the actual problems of glomerulonephritis are described.
  • (19) The patho- and etiogenetically different processes are likely to underlie such heterogeneity.
  • (20) On the basis of its course and clinical and patho-anatomical features Ph1-CML looks like an atypical chronic myeloid leukemia.

Poignancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To anyone who has followed Goldin's career, and grown familiar with her cast of characters, these images have an added layer of poignancy.
  • (2) They are full of the kind of worries any parent might have if their child was in a dangerous situation, but because Rachel never came home, they have a devastating poignancy.
  • (3) Spencer himself would have preferred comparison to Giotto's Arena chapel in Padua, while for Taylor "there is a more Rothko-esque experience when you sit in the chapel and look at the paintings, and certainly after 10 minutes you are overcome by a sense of poignancy."
  • (4) When each interaction with a grandchild or good-bye kiss to a spouse may be the last, a sense of poignancy may permeate even the most casual everyday experiences.
  • (5) The simple narrative, built around the near-mythical Christmas truce between the trenches of 1914, has just the right blend of poignancy and sentimentality to bring a tear to the most cynical eye.
  • (6) Mufasa’s death in The Lion King , betrayed by his hateful brother Scar, has lived in the minds of generations – I know it lives in mine – and the enduring poignancy of Mufasa’s fate has not made things any easier for Mr Palmer.
  • (7) But Jobs's address has an unbearable poignancy just now, especially for those who knew him well.
  • (8) Despite their eerie poignancy, some cycling campaigners worry that the memorials could, in fact, act in the main to put off would-be cyclists.
  • (9) There must have been a tinge of poignancy as well pride for particular individuals.
  • (10) Meanwhile, in Rochester, New York, an election tradition took on even greater poignancy.
  • (11) You are crazy.” Pope Francis departs US after historic tour from Havana to Philadelphia - live Read more The mass capped a day of rapture and poignance for those swept up in a week of pope mania, a public relations triumph during which the 78-year-old Argentinian deftly mixed politics and pageantry to draw attention to his priorities – poverty, injustice, pollution – and to challenge the US to do better.
  • (12) Volunteers including armed forces members based in the area, including many for whom the site has a personal poignancy since they have just returned safely from active service overseas, will be helping record the site in detail.
  • (13) The poignancy of this is highlighted by the fact that the orbit contains the organ of sight and also has high aesthetic value.
  • (14) Repeating the lyrics “been telling myself that I can roll with the changes” in a falsetto that matures with age, he looks anxiously aware of the lyrical poignancy.
  • (15) Instead, Swift called on artists to seek a new connection with fans, an “arrow through the heart” poignancy that would overcome the collapse of the old revenue models.
  • (16) The theme was portentous and loud, and the mood of the moment pivoted drastically, from Elton’s sweet poignancy, implying the arrival of a tired touring man coming to greet his supporters late in the California afternoon, to something far more fascist-theatrical.
  • (17) But, perhaps drawing on the poignancy of Blade Runner's self-aware replicants, movies have sometimes been driven to take the clones' perspective.
  • (18) The fact that this list was previously kept a secret just adds to the poignancy.
  • (19) As a young therapist who once counselled pregnant women, I know the poignancy and delicacy of this time spent with a woman – young or approaching menopause – who finds herself pregnant.
  • (20) Naturally such knowledge adds poignancy to the descriptions of Esther's suffering when she, like Plath, was just 19.

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