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Meanings of pathetic fallacy in anglès

The treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.

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Usage of pathetic fallacy in anglès
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The pathetic fallacy is accordingly what originally peoples the imagined world.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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The commission of the pathetic fallacy is the judge's greatest danger.
Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Stu...
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At any rate, the pathetic fallacy certainly provides Mr Cronenberg with a dramatic entrance.
The Irish Times
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Vote for me: I once wrote an essay on Thomas Hardy and the pathetic fallacy!
The Guardian
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In a variation on Ruskin's pathetic fallacy, she contrives a Christmas tree's view of Christmas.
The Irish Times
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As any Melburnian will tell you, that's not so much pathetic fallacy as meteorological impossibility.
The Guardian
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The so-called " pathetic fallacy" is an excellent illustration of this.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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If this is a " pathetic fallacy," it is one which we all inevitably commit.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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Illustrations of Mr. Ruskin's " pathetic fallacy" may be found almost anywhere in Emerson's poems.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Ruskin, John: on metaphysics, 250; certain chapters, 336; pathetic fallacy, 337; plagiarism, 384.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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But we now recognize all these ascriptions as cases of the pathetic fallacy, poetically significant but literally untrue.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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Ruskin invented that phrase "the pathetic fallacy."
My Boyhood
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That is a ' pathetic fallacy.'
Ideala
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At the risk of stretching a pathetic fallacy, the weather has tended to reflect turbulence in the screening rooms.
The Irish Times
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He was a prophet, not a critic, and he was a victim to his own abhorred " pathetic fallacy."
Promenades of an Impressionist
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This, indeed, would be Heine's answer to any criticism based upon Ruskin's notion as to the " pathetic fallacy."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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