He applauded the combination of "sentiment, humor and pathos with taut melodrama and bristling intrigue". He conveys the pathos and helplessness that this character demands with amazing understanding. Biographer Arnold Rogow explores the pathos and tragedy of Forestal's tormented life. Rich contrasts of light and shadow abound, infused by a profound sense of pathos. "The Scourge" thought the novel lacked pathos and sublimity. There's little pathos or emotional tension. Critics have praised Partridge's complexity, realism and pathos. Richardson's Vanya "the perfect compound of absurdity and pathos". The narrative paradigm incorporates both the pathos and logos form of rhetoric theory. Arye found a visceral reality and the scene became filled with pathos and meaning. The pages of '11/22/63' fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense. As a result, the depictions gained seriousness, even "pathos". Many of his later roles were in comedies tinged with pathos. Affection is compared with passion, from the Greek "pathos". All talk of wonder, pathos and optimism aside.