pathetic fallacy

There is something of the pathetic fallacy operating in many prints.

Before long, the pathetic fallacy covered the English countryside like fog.

But even if he did speak, his use of language would not be an example of the pathetic fallacy.

Anyone who finds this a pathetic fallacy has never lain on a rock in high wind.

It was all just like a pathetic fallacy.

The technique of using weather to reinforce a person's emotions is called the pathetic fallacy.

This literary device of having nature be responsive to human feelings is called the pathetic fallacy.

There's pathetic fallacy if ever I saw it.

"And that is my sister's rendition of pathetic fallacy."

Pathetic Fallacy is also common in his poems.

The city of "armed response" signs was a festival of the pathetic fallacy.

Further examples of the application of the Pathetic fallacy are:

An example of the animism conveyed by the pathetic fallacy is:

The pathetic fallacy seems to me to be a form of honesty, an antidote to the forced piety I've seen in too many recent books.

Sorry to carp, but it always bugs me when somebody gets reeled in by the pathetic fallacy.

We're right to distrust the pathetic fallacy.

The pathetic fallacy is a category mistake.

The pathetic fallacy lives in the nineties.

The pathetic fallacy operates in her work as she readily dramatizes her chosen subjects.

He is an extended canine pathetic fallacy.

An old-fashioned literary critic might call this an instance of the pathetic fallacy, using weather or the seasons to symbolize human events.

The "pathetic fallacy" is defined in the dictionary as "the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature."

As if to show that the pathetic fallacy wasn't so pathetic after all, the sun now sailed behind a deck of clouds.

The pathetic fallacy!

Fowler's description indicates the occurrence of two significant alterations to the meaning of the term Pathetic fallacy.