Yet her continual teetering between hostility and despair contains genuine pathos.

"Agents Sketch," in which Ms. Wallem plays a naive 15-year-old pop star desperate to do something "meaningful," carries an undertone of genuine pathos.

Though there are occasional funny lines and moments of genuine pathos, Mr. Hare writes with the kind of ponderous sincerity that allows for few surprises.

Her story, told from her point of view, is filled with genuine pathos.

Their meetings supply "The Gate of the Sun" with its most genuine pathos and also with its deepest sense of contradiction.

The acme of genuine pathos.

That the heroine faints or dies while the whirlpool skating continues at the end adds to a genuine pathos.

In genuine pathos, Hugo is vastly his superior.

The film was praised for its dark, violent tone, vivid on-location cinematography and genuine pathos.

Erlewine noted that "these aren't songs of love; they're songs of loss, and that there's a genuine pathos in them."