- Maudlin drama or prose - Poignancy of interior of expat hospital - Quality that arouses pity - Sadness - 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.