Sentence examples for pathetic efforts from inspiring English sources

And he's dismissive of what he considers her pathetic efforts at a new life, when she should be studying with the best chefs in the Bay Area.

Have you ever seen anything haughtier looking than a groundhog sitting up on his haunches, proudly surveying his domain and sneering at your pathetic efforts to thwart him?

One increasingly sees pathetic efforts to find inspiration, such as The Washington Post dubbing Germany's conservative, boringly technocratic Chancellor Angela Merkel "leader of the free world," because she isn't xenophobic.

Barr news conference at 9 30 am, Mueller report released at 11 am: In the annals of pathetic efforts to spin apparently bad news in Washington, this ranks near the top.

"Pathetic efforts to smother dissent and intimidate media is a sign of a shaky regime and a bunker mentality," tweeted Mohamed ElBaradei, the leader of Egypt's main opposition coalition.

Three nerdy high school freshmen — a fat one (Troy Gentile), a tall one with glasses (Nate Hartley) and a shrimpy one with braces (David Dorfman) — find their pathetic efforts at coolness met with abuse from a pair of bullies.

But Collinsworth saw incompetence, not skill: "That's a pathetic effort by the Eagles.

Some, in a pathetic effort to please their parents and serve their needs, distinguish themselves in the arts or professions.

He takes a nonchalant swipe at the ball, and sends a pathetic effort rolling left of the target!

The "regime's attempts to mis-characterise these humanitarian exemptions are a pathetic effort to distract from its own corruption and mismanagement", Hook says.

And he misses the par tiddler, prodding a pathetic effort - you can't blame the surfaces for this - around the left-hand edge of the cup.