Sentence examples for pathetic effects from inspiring English sources

He has restrained the fondness for pathetic effects, which so overbalanced City Lights, leaving only a legitimate invitation to sympathy for the undeliberating, 'take-the-world-as-you-find-it,' yet curiously impersonal emblem of humanity which he presents.

But at the same time he played up his boyishness for comic or pathetic effect: at age twenty-three, he was still joking about his "particular baby bulbousness... like an Aryan Harpo bitten by wasps".

Marshall throws away some of his song Mr Cellophane; he isn't allowed to get to the end of it uninterrupted so that we get the full pathetic effect of him whimpering: "Thanks for listening".

'No substance gets introduced into the European market without first passing through Secondigliano,' writes Saviano, describing the squalid inferno of product tests carried out on pathetic addicts to gauge the effects of 'cutting' drugs, and then the war which followed a revolt against Di Lauro by lieutenants wanting a bigger share, and Di Lauro's terrible revenge.

And the over-all effect is more pathetic than tragic.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

But the movie is also a clever distortion of reality, in which Dunham, for comic effect, rehearses only the most pathetic aspects of her life.

He added, "This could be what I call the 'Miley Cyrus Effect' – doing anything, no matter how pathetic, in order to get attention".

He added, "This could be what I call the 'Miley Cyrus Effect' doing anything, no matter how pathetic, in order to get attention".

Those responsible for making Chinese TV shows pathetic are the directors, screenwriters, editors and the people doing the lighting, music, special effects and makeup.

Kelley's themes were often sinister, pathetic or repulsive, conflating high art, pop culture and critical theory to disturbing effect.