Sentence examples for pathetic about from inspiring English sources

"But now, there is something ironic, even pathetic about it.

"He looks gray and grand, with something very pathetic about him," Longfellow recorded in his journal.

God, I hated it, rather than feeling a bit pathetic about it, as in the case of football.

After all, there is something kind of pathetic about having to designate a day to be good to your mate.

Still, there was something pathetic about watching Moyá pack his bags with just a few spectators left to provide some polite clapping.

When Alberta sings an old pop hit about getting the blues on rainy days, with Fannie Mae joining her in tremulous harmony, there is nothing pathetic about her.

The filmmakers take tiny, tinny digs at the vice president and cook up a subplot about yellowcake uranium and a pathetic bit about a guy in a turban on a plane.

(In Wodehouse, even the Oswald Spodey-like Roferick Spode of the Black Shorts movement, as close to an evil character as that author ever created, is rendered comically pathetic by "swanking about," as Bertie says, "in footer bags").

If a man who has been dead for months tells you to give up and stop pursuing a Death Brunette who doesn't care about you, maybe it's time to let go of the increasingly pathetic fantasy about saving the lost lady (who is really just the female version of Dick Whitman).

The pathetic thing about the Nets is that they actually had a bit of a golden era, now largely forgotten.

The pain of sad little men "This is such bollocks; sad little men making pathetic points about nothing".