Thursday was a noble restatement of the importance of parliamentary sovereignty, but parliament itself has done pathetically little to deserve the outcome.
But the more we argued, the closer we got, and the more I wanted to punch him, the more likely it seemed we would hug, which we did, pathetically, while swinging a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black.
Facebook's reckless vanity has made the headlines again, with the revelation that data it held on about 50 million users was exploited commercially without their consent, and that when Facebook found out about this, it did pathetically little.
But another big part of it is that the estimated hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who have fled over the years into China have had almost no help from the U.S. or UNHCR, which in contrast to their handling of the Palestinians in Iraq have done pathetically little to help North Korean refugees or champion their cause.
Knight told the Guardian Glossip's second round of defense "did a pathetically horrible job of investigating the case".
Mukherjee, describing experimental chemo regimens of the early sixties, recounts the controversial decisions made to concoct terrifyingly toxic cocktails for child-leukemia patients, while the physicians in charge did what pathetically little they could to make the kids more comfortable.
When a "popular" person comes and humiliates you, don't mumble pathetically.
"Don't be so pathetically American," she snapped, not kidding, and delivered a short lecture on income stagnation: a bird ridiculing its fellow-bird for stupidity.
I refuse to be a shill for this person the way the article, "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" so pathetically did after a young man ruthlessly killed children and his own mother in another mass shooting.
Yet many of us do not realise just how pathetically poor our wildlife now is, because of what has become known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome: we take what we see in the world around us as the norm, and do not register the losses which went on before us.
