Sentence examples for pathetic compared from inspiring English sources

But the building's facilities, she said, are "pathetic compared to the other schools'".

Employment growth in the Bush years has been pathetic compared with job creation in the Clinton era.

"The engagement levels on Google Plus are pathetic compared to the larger platforms on social media," Mr. Rohan said.

But actually scientifically it's the wrong thing to do, because the energy recovery from AD is pathetic, compared to the energy recovered by people eating food".

The Civil War period fares better a lot better quantitatively, a little better qualitatively, but still pretty pathetic compared to the possibilities that the actual history offers.

The Civil War period fares better — a lot better quantitatively, a little better qualitatively, but still pretty pathetic compared to the possibilities that the actual history offers.

I survived, though, and at home again in England, I was (briefly) inspired to become a collector, like Gerry and Theodore, although my bits of broken bird egg and stag beetles were, in retrospect, rather pathetic when compared to their trapdoor spiders, pet owls and pigeons.

But his alleged crimes are both tiny and pathetic when compared to the audacity of Madoff, Stanford and their ilk.

Anyway, Mr. Wright, who is a moralist, goes into great lengths to compare pathetic, sex-addicted genius athlete Tiger Woods, who is valiantly trying to return to his profession in about a week after much trials and tribulations brought about completely by himself, to the doomed hero of Bernard Malamud's tedious The Natural.

Rather a good deal compared to the pathetic offerings for top dollar otherwise available to travelers.

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