Sentence examples for a rather pathetic from inspiring English sources

She ended up a rather pathetic Ibsen-bore, unmarried, impoverished and trading sadly on her memories.

In the first place, Ukraine appears ungovernable as the orange revolution collapses into a rather pathetic mess.

In this magazine, Pauline Kael called it "a rather pathetic mess" and went on from there: "a huge, jerry-built, crumbling ruin of a movie".

Once again Andreotti was innocent – at least of this particular crime, thus vindicating those who argued that it was hardly credible that a statesman of Andreotti's standing would risk so much to eliminate a rather pathetic blackmailer.

"The Missing Peace" opens with a rather pathetic account of how President Clinton received Mr. Arafat at the White House on Jan . 2 , 2001still trying to reach a peace deal with only 18 days left in office.

Mr Fraser said the government's stand on policies like climate change was giving the world "a rather pathetic view of Australia".

I feel this is all rather pathetic as well as tiresome.

The fastest average nation is Spain (3hr 55min 35sec) – though given men tend to finish quicker than women, and Spain has a frankly rather pathetic gender split of 93.59%/6.41% male/female, that's hardly surprising.

I think that would be a very sad, rather pathetic reason for wanting to be speaker.

If right-wing trolls cynically deconstruct left-wing anxieties in the public view in order to reconstruct them into a campaign of (earnest if rather pathetic) white-male self-expression, left-wing metamodern political activism is a combination of seemingly cynical pragmatism and a thoroughly dogmatic idealism.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault linked Mr. Depardieu's move to the tax rate, saying in a TV interview that the decision was "rather pathetic," adding "He's a great star, everyone loves him as an artist," but that "to pay a tax is an act of solidarity, a patriotic act".