Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)
While I still find Mr. Bennett's here's-what-happened-to-everybody ending to be neat to the point of outright patness, I bought into the rest of the play this time around and cared about its characters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Forgive the movie's patness; relish its many richly lived-in moments. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nor are you likely to care, since (A) the plot generated by this premise is wince-makingly artificial and (B) Mr. Marshall can't decide whether to make fun of its patness or play it straight. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Joanna herself was a little surprised at the movielike patness of it. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)
Lewis had been very eloquent in explaining how things should be, even if he wasn't working with the whole story, while Mally had an offhand manner about her that gave her reasoning a little too much patness. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1985)
The eloquent statement you have just made, for instance -- it carries all the patness of old conviction. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
The rush of yelping dogs to the door when aroused by some sound without, and the wailing of sick babies or sleepy children in the laps of mothers seated on the benches, broke the patness of many amusing anecdotes, and the flow of many eloquent periods, from the lips of the man on the platform. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Often there seems to be intelligent association of certain acts or conditions with corresponding sentences, these sometimes occurring with singular patness. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Alexandria with French patness as a place "ou l'on faisait assidûment des vers sur l'amour sans être amoureux" -- "where they were ever writing love-poems without ever being in love." ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)
You will sense here the sort of _patness_ which I feel cheapens the catastrophe; and yet, as I consider it, again, the fact is not without its curious importance, and its bearing upon what went before. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
She got a History I was writing of this Witchcraft; and though she had, before this, read it over and over, yet now she could not read (I believe) one entire sentence of it; but she made of it the most ridiculous Travesty in the world, with such a patness and excess of fancy, to supply the sense that she put upon it, as I was amazed at. ❋ Charles Wentworth Upham (1838)
But, the sealer on the lovefest is that Glaeser's writing tends toward patness and over simplification. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Elfrida went on rapidly -- her phrases had the patness of formed conclusions -- "what you said betrayed a totally different conception of art, as it expresses itself in the nudity of things, from the one I supposed you to hold. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
This he wished in an age so resembling ours, that I fear the description with equal patness may suit both: "Take ye heed" (said he then, and may we not advise the like now?) "every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Things fall about with an odd patness, as you say. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"For all the impressive acting and the unusual familial arithmetic, there's some patness in the latter going of 'The Kids Are All Right' that keeps it feeling a little leaden and pedestrian -- particularly as it winds toward an unconvincing ending. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's often used in [comics] language as
[onomatopeic] word
(in peanuts' strips "[pat pat]" situations are often drawn) ❋ Sheeva_Nephtis-Flynetz (2005)
"I was hoping for some [pat pat] while [out here] with [Jess]."
"If I buy her everything she wants, I will get some pat pat tonight." ❋ KayseeLovesWindykins (2015)
[Look at] her [Pat Pat] ❋ The Man (2001)
Today I met Pat and he was [really cool], [we should] all be really cool [buddies]. ❋ HeyLookItsThatGuyOverThere (2017)
"He was up [till] the [early] hours [patting]" ❋ Mozzer58 (2020)
“Have you heard about “The Pat?”
“My [ultimate goal] in life is to [be a member]. I’m working in my application video for next year. [As they say], excellence, commitment, humility.” ❋ Patcommish (2021)
While you are [hugging] [your boyfriend]/[girlfriend] you give them a Pat Pat. ❋ Karissa (2004)
Hey, there [goes] Pat, [i love that] [guy]. ❋ Pat P (2008)
[His girlfriend] made him [pat] last night, isn't that [embarrassing]. ❋ LCPL USMC Ret. (2006)
this year [da] pats gonna [win] da [super bowl] ❋ Grinningdemon18 (2004)
