Sentence examples for or pathetic from inspiring English sources

Maybe this expressiveness seems strange to us, or pathetic.

Hollywood, which had lionized analysts in the fifties, began depicting them as corrupt or pathetic.

This war is not about my own personal opinion, which may be wrong or pathetic.

Within such a comprehensive scheme, particular needs could be satisfied by comic or pathetic demonstration.

No battle is too petty for Breitbart, no target too small or pathetic.

He's not especially charming; his wit is quick but angry, his self-deprecations embittered or pathetic.

Ms. Novak's clients are not weird enough to be laughable or pathetic enough to pity.

Crazy lovers are pitiful, or pathetic, or, often enough, poignant figures.

I'm not saying that to be contrarian or ironic or delicately pathetic.

Or those pathetic starting pitchers?

Either limitlessly shrewd or deeply pathetic: which was it?