Sending a thank you note is always a lovely gesture – and often an expected one. I’m sure that when you were a child, your parents encouraged (or forced) you to write thank you notes for birthday and Christmas presents. As an adult, you should still make a point of writing a thank...
Your sympathy card was timely and very, very helpful to me during difficult days last week. And though I received several notes of condolence through e-mail, I found in my distress that a tangible card I could see on my desk was really much more comforting. Thank you so much. This week...
“I’m out of here then,” Maggie said. “I’m not in this scene and I don’t want to be, thank you very much. Finish that tea, Sarah, and hide the thermos. If she finds it, you’re in big trouble.” As quickly as she had arrived, Maggie scurried away. Sarah gulped the re...
(ii) thanks, (iii) congratulations, (iv) condolences and sympathy, (v) apologies and so on. In a word, they all have specific purposes. They differ from the regular letters in that whereas regular letters may deal with several things at once, a social letter...
In my notebook, it blew off steam, processed feelings, armed me against the devastation of betrayal. Online, it garnered sympathy, and a fair number of “serves you right” comments from people who’d been reading my honest, anonymous blog, and seen the shit I’d been up to myself. ...
But for some kinds of correspondence, only real stationery will do. If you are writing alove letter, a sympathy note, athank you card, or a letter of congratulations, you don’t want to send such meaningful musings on paper you tore out of your spiral notebook. Quality stationery adds ...
I’m not whining or begging for your sympathy. Short and sweet of it is that I want to devote what time I have left on creative projects that will actually get out in the world to be seen, or in this case heard. I thrive best when I have an ongoing thing to work on, to engage...
They are no longer greenhouse flowers,but a new generation with sympathy and a strong sense of socialresponsibility. If there were real changes taking place in China after theearthquake, then I strongly believe that’s the change of the children. 四、 一定要以你深有感触, 或深受感动的角度选择...
Pathos aims to evoke emotions in the audience to create a connection or inspire action. This appeal leverages the audience’s feelings, whether they are fear, sympathy, anger, or joy. Effective use of pathos can be seen in storytelling, vivid imagery, and passionate language. For instance, a...
The pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human feeling to things found in nature. Mountains are cruelly indifferent, summer rain is kindly, an old house frowns. (Pathetic here means ‘having to do with feelings’ as in sympathy or empathy, not ‘pitiful and ridiculous’...