n .
that which makes people feel pity or sorrow 사람들에게 연민이나 슬픔을 느끼게 만드는 것, 파토스

• Laura's dog gets such a look of _____ whenever he wants to go for a walk 솟 it's hard for Laura to turn him down.
• There was an unwitting _____ in the way the elderly shopkeeper had tried to spruce up his window display with crude declarations cut from construction paper.
  늙숙한 상점 주인이 공작용 색판지를 잘라 만든 볼품없는 장식으로 가게 진열장을 꾸며보려고 애쓴 것에는 부지중의 비애가 들어 있었다.
• _____ 와 bathos 를 혼동하지 말 것. 후자는 진부하고 성의 없으며, 정에 호소하는 싸구려 정서를 뜻하낟.
• Terry said the new novel was deeply moving but I found it to be filled with bathos, and I didn't shed a tear.