Sentence examples for for a pathetic from inspiring English sources

Now it's the main form of transport for a pathetic 2% of pupils.

75 min: Pepe should be sent off for a pathetic scythe on Hamsik.

But of course everybody who's sold out and been co-opted, as I obviously have, says the same thing, and it makes for a pathetic spectacle.

UConn paddled in that morass enough to be barred from the N.C.A.A. tournament for a pathetic academic record and dig itself an even bigger hole with its recruitment of Nate Miles.

The major departure from the original plot is once again the reawakening of Juliette just in time for a pathetic duet with Romeo before both die, begging God's forgiveness for their unchristian suicide.

No one, however, tops the N.F.L. for a pathetic waste of energy, with the outpouring of anger at the Patriots after their Super Bowl loss setting some sort of record for loss of perspective, writes Rick Reilly on ESPN.com.

Then Danny DeVito plays Dave Schmerz (German for "pain"), a pathetic has-been screenwriter teaching at a film school where the students despise him and his only friend is his dachshund.

IS it a poignant talent for optimism, a pathetic susceptibility to self-delusion or just clear-eyed reason that has so many people chattering about the good in these bad times?

Like Mr Woodhead, ministers are keen to expand vocational training (though he thinks they are blurring the distinction between the vocational and academic); and, as Mr Woodhead wants, they are making a stab at introducing performance-related pay for teachers ("a pathetic stab", according to him).Still, Mr Woodhead is prepared to put other people's money where his mouth is.

As Mr Wolfe notes dismissively in "A Man in Full", the passion for the deal is a pathetic substitute for the male passion for battle.

In a 1948 speech entitled "The Dilemma of the Negro Writer in America," Himes responded to his critics: "If this plumbing for the truth reveals within the Negro personality homicidal mania, lust for white women, a pathetic sense of inferiority, paradoxical anti-Semitism, arrogance, Uncle-Tomism, hate and fear of self-hate, this then is the effect of oppression on the human personality.