Sentence examples for much pathetic from inspiring English sources

It's why Shelley's image of the Creature – as much pathetic as it is terrifying – is invoked ever more often in contemporary culture and a world in which science and technology appear to be stealing a march on the species that created them.

Making it just that much more pathetic was the sign next to me, the big one reading "No Photos, Please".

The men who have to be killed are not frightening so much as pathetic.

It's not shocking so much as pathetic, a pointless, uninspired moment in the middle of an astonishingly inspired display of Eminem's prowess as a rapper.

And if they thought that Trump would cover for them, and help make them look good, the picture is that much more pathetic.

Now all that wind acting on the big mainsail is just too much for my pathetic upper-body strength.

She'd been the person who believed in me, or at least claimed to, even when by all external evidence I wasn't much more than pathetic.

"It's pathetic how much I give compared to other people I know worth considerably less," he said.

It's pathetic how much significance I attach to the Times puzzle, which is easy on Monday and gets progressively harder as the week advances.

"If an aeroplane would come down and drop nets down on those people on the corner, you would find so much drugs it's pathetic," said Patterson.

As for the language of the game, though my fake-sophisticated characters make a lot of hay over the sexual overtones of the jargon, what goes unremarked by them is something much more poignant, or pathetic: in backgammon, as in baseball, the players are forever trying to get "home".