poignancy, melancholy, profundity, sentimentality, lyricism, melodrama, theatricality, wryness, whimsy, mawkishness, poeticism, poignance, sappiness, wistfulness, triteness, subtlety, tenderness, romanticism, staginess, soulfulness, archness, humor, maudlin, elegiac, didacticism, knowingness, impishness, playfulness, earnestness, sweetness, corniness, bravura, plaintiveness, nuance, emotionality, slyness, pensiveness, winsomeness, slapstick, hilarity, schmaltz, grimness, creepiness, melodramatics, ruefulness, dreaminess, verisimilitude, brassiness, bathos, absurdism, gravitas, bombast, impassivity, emoting, moroseness, grandiloquence, drollness, ingenuousness, sensuality, lucidity, malevolence, artifice, stylization, grand guignol, grotesquerie, surrealism, acerbity, carnality, abjection, facetiousness, tautness, saccharine, inwardness, earthiness, brio, sordidness, verve, tearjerking, guilelessness, zaniness, tunefulness, sublimity, melancholia, lightheartedness, expressiveness, sauciness, interiority, mournfulness, whimsicality, mordant, naturalism, boyishness, melody, emotionalism, suavity, virtuosity, misanthropy, emotion, girlishness, shavian, monumentality, villainy, seriousness, compassion, exaltation, humility, joy, pity, sadness, thoughtfulness, yearning, picturesqueness, ideality, impressiveness, longing, anguish

bathos, mawkishness

expressive style, fellow feeling, quality, style, sympathy

commiseration, ruth