Sentence examples for in the pathetic from inspiring English sources

But Carroll coaches in the pathetic N.F.C. West, where 7-9 is a ticket to ride.

Efforts to get an increase in the pathetic $5.15 minimum wage continue to fail.

That may strike some people as sad (in the pathetic, rather than unhappy, sense).

Nowhere are the costs of these antagonisms so apparent as in the pathetic levels of trade between these two populous nations.For years direct exchange was all but blocked.

In fact, the more I thought about the chef and what he makes, the more logic I found in the pathetic fallacy of the kitchen, after all.

This is nowhere more apparent than in the pathetic pseudo marriages in which many homosexuals act out conventional roles — wearing wedding rings, calling themselves "he" and "she".

Sorry to carp, but it always bugs me when somebody gets reeled in by the pathetic fallacy.

He's put in a mental institution where, in the closing panel, two detectives outside the barred door peer in at the pathetic wimp who still insists that he's the omnipotent killer from Saturn.

I'm not one of those brooding types who goes in for the pathetic fallacy of saying, "Ooh, I love cold, rainy weather", as if this somehow confirms the dank seriousness of their own inner life.

Mr. Cale, in his best work to date, is splendid in capturing the pathetic hunger of a man who feels perpetually stranded on the outskirts of other lives.

We should be able to clear the chancellor's problems in under a week with the pathetic driving in the UK.