Sentence examples for pathetic existence from inspiring English sources

"In these times of abject misery I try to compare my life to that of someone with a yet more pathetic existence," writes Scott Reece.

But of course the old men are fighting back – dusting down their old service uniforms and oiling their muskets and surrounding themselves with legislative sandbags to prolong their pathetic existence for another few months.

Maybe working my way through Census District XXXXXX would help me find meaning in an otherwise pathetic existence.

Sorry you didn't plan anything better than being stuck at this lame-ass bar to celebrate another year of your pathetic existence.

Why not lean in and embrace the poetry of our own pathetic existences?

I'm so pathetic; this is such a pitiful existence.

These fantasies are juxtaposed with Cornell's banal, even pathetic everyday existence.

Put aside the near certainty that Bernhard would have disparaged anything you might say about his work — not just disparaged it, but attacked it with an acid-tongued rant that eviscerated your words, your intellect and your pathetic petit-bourgeois existence.

But just as Tony Blair's inner circle would have agreed to a near limitless number of wars out of pathetic gratitude that their existence had been acknowledged by the stars of the real-life West Wing, so they were given to overplaying any sign that Condi was dimly aware of our own little backyard games.

Pathetic and yet highly paid for being pathetic.

Rather than the fact that you're a weak, pathetic booze-hound who despises every detail of your hellish, pub-bound existence.