Sentence examples for a pathetic attempt from inspiring English sources
It is a pathetic attempt to avoid responsibility for its own inactions.
A pathetic attempt at recovery, which so often follows our social gaffes.
Boot himself unabashedly describes the proposed alliances as "a pathetic attempt to disguise American pre-eminence".
But this is a cruel tease and a pathetic attempt to repackage old promises.
The adding of "Du" to her surname was a pathetic attempt to give herself aristocratic status.
But the Conservative chairman, Grant Shapps, said denied the claims: "This is a pathetic attempt to evade the serious issues.
A tidy Flintoff over is wasted when Dravid's press to mid-on sees a frankly pathetic attempt at a dive from Pietersen let the ball scuttle underneath him and race away to the boundary.
And can you think of a more pathetic attempt at rhyme?
"For me, the idea of owning intellectual-property rights for seeds is a bad, pathetic attempt at seed dictatorship," Shiva told the audience in Florence.
This indictment is more specific, though Webber's lawyer, Steven Fishman, describes it as a "somewhat pathetic attempt by the government to make chicken salad out of chicken droppings".
In a sweetly pathetic attempt to play storybook knight, Niall heads to Castletownbere, the picturesque hamlet in County Cork where the nightmare began, and unearths another journal before becoming lost in the more metaphorical thickets of the plot.
