There is nothing of the atmosphere of a great sitcom like "The Wonder Years," where comedy can be thrown against real pathos.

It's also adept at working a strain of real pathos into the mix, since Donna and Michael are both so young and scared.

In the most sensational of melodramas, he creates a figure of real pathos.

The little clown was good and there was real pathos in his silent humor.

O'Hagan finds real pathos in this jaded subject, the familiar terrain of the mini-series.

Her authentically blowsy look in this supporting role lends real pathos to the story, and real passion to Anna's struggle against her own sordid past.

Too talky for real pathos much of the time, "A Woman's Tale" can also become abruptly solemn and moving.

But what gives the book its real pathos, beyond perhaps even the author's full awareness, is that the President didn't seem to care either.

"I wanted to convey in the film the real pathos contained in a four line newspaper report that simultaneously records and dismisses the end of someone's life"

The English critic Philip Hope-Wallace wrote that she achieved real pathos in the role.