pathetic fallacy

How To Use pathetic fallacy In A Sentence

• The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.
• His blunders of interpretation are due to what has been described as the " pathetic fallacy ".
• When he writes of "the scream of the maddened beach," he uses the pathetic fallacy; but his science is quite correct, for the swift whirling of myriads of pebbles does produce a clear shrill note as the backdraught streams from the shore. Side Lights
• These comprise a kind of picaresque tale of Jack's philandering, selfish, funny life, accompanied by such supporting fables as the Pathetic Fallacy (now going by the name "Gary") and the Queen of Fortune. Boing Boing
• It was snowing back home in Washington and, pathetic fallacy-wise, things could have been worse - I could have been Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti freezing my global financial disaster-addled asino off in sunny Iqaluit. Toronto Sun
• No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises.
• By a pathetic fallacy their capacity to suffer is measured by their apparent power to enjoy, and those are moved to tears by the spectacle of a Dauphin surrendered to the coarse and brutal tutelage of a sans-culotte, who read without emotion of thousands of Huguenot children torn from their mothers 'arms and flung to the novercal cruelties of strangers in blood and creed. The Story of Paris