Her Hester is desperately needy, almost pathetic, close to suicide.
And if we have to lose, who better to lose to than the Mets, whose fans so desperately need this pathetic affirmation that they have some brief value in a world they can never own.
Why do people who breed think they're so special, we puzzled, bringing a kid into this overpopulated, war-ravaged world, desperately trying to grasp onto some pathetic shard of immortality?
Meanwhile, watching Thomas desperately try to make friends with Andy is so pathetic, it almost makes you long for the days when he was kidnapping dogs, sabotaging Mr. Bates and getting shot in the hand so he could come home from the war.
He looked, and sounded, exactly like a homeless alcoholic: shaky and prematurely old, his tone, as he addressed Moyle, straight out of Little Dorrit, a pathetic combination of resignation and ingratiation (he wanted, desperately, to be allowed to leave).
With the walls of Jerusalem in the distance, a pathetic figure on all fours representing "500,000 Jews in Hungary" reaches desperately for the Palestine visas in the pocket of John Bull's tailcoat, while a ribbon marked "Delay" drapes the Englishman's wrists and he says, "Sorry, my hands are tied".
Played by the fabulously poignant Thomas Walker, Platée's gullibility was more pathetic than amusing, particularly when juxtaposed with dance sequences that captured the exhausted, drugged but desperately partying atmosphere of staying far too late at a club night.
From the air it was a pathetic sight – herds of bug-eyed, panicked cattle, with only horns and snouts sticking out of the water, desperately seeking higher ground.
Pathetic you are, pathetic.
