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  1. Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place. Essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else's position and feeling what they are feeling.

  2. The meaning of IN (VERY) BAD/POOR TASTE is rude or insulting : offensive. How to use in (very) bad/poor taste in a sentence.

  3. Replace aggression by sympathy and the same situation—a drunk falling on his face, for example—will be no longer comic but pathetic and will evoke not laughter but pity. It is the aggressive element, the detached malice of the comic impersonator, that turns pathos into bathos, tragedy into travesty.

  4. Pathetic appeals could simply become, as in Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783), something like the sixth office of rhetoric. Besides Blair’s, the most important rhetorical treatises of the period were George Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776) and Richard Whately’s Elements of Rhetoric (1828).

  5. By Kahlil Gibran. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

  6. (“Well short of the average,” for those who understand statistics, means two standard deviations or more below the median height for age.) This number has been inordinately high in the Philippines since the 1980s. At 45 percent then, it meant nearly one in every two children five and below.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PsychopathyPsychopathy - Wikipedia

    Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, [1] is a personality construct [2] [3] characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy. [4] [5] [6] [7]