Sentence examples for pathetic enough from inspiring English sources

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"Not pathetic enough".

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

"It's a dangerous situation, because particularly bad [orphanages] will keep the children and the orphanage looking just pathetic enough in order to illicit sympathy and get donations," he said.

It's pathetic enough for well-paid actors to take advertising work in the first place ("Do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll-call, every word you say is suspect, you're a corporate whore, end of story" – Bill Hicks) but to then bite the hand that feeds their BS to the masses is truly revolting.

Goldberg is pathetic enough to declaim to Consuela what a good husband he is and what a good man, all of which turns out to be necessary because he has been demoralized by the chilliness of his wife (Barbara Garrick), who is merely protecting herself from what she perceives as her husband's rejection of her.

When Abramoff was sentenced last week, he had some touching things to say about his regrets, and he looked pathetic enough, but in a country that prides itself on having a stable and well-thought-out system of government, doing all the footwork to corrupt that system isn't the kind of thing that can be easily forgiven.

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To target an innocent Polar Bear that has earned its keep is pathetic!! Fair enough that employers rentrench women first and find out later how valuable their contribution was to the organisation.

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

She is belligerent, angry, pathetic, but intelligent enough to realise that her predicament is partly of her own making.

Ms. Schlessinger is merely bossy -- a mean-spirited "doctor" (in physiology, not psychology) who dispenses authoritarian advice to pathetic lonelyhearts desperate enough to seek family counseling from a call-in radio show.

When Snipes finally gets his revenge, it's unsatisfying: Hopper's too pathetic, not nearly enough of an evil genius for it to be satisfying.

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