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"Prepare Yourself, Pathetic Fool!" screams the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation homepage.
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The train had left the station, and she had found an "all-too-comfortable seat" on board "among the other pathetic, whimpering fools, and soon to depart for destinations doomed, deranged and possibly even unsanitary — where the heart rules and the mind follows".
How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a "half-insane rascal," a "pathetic dunderhead," a "nowhere fool," a "big mouth" — rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven?
Fools! Fools!
Or they are pathetic pygmies: the gibbering fools of Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It.
Vain, rich and still handsome, Terry often makes a fool of himself, but Mr. Havers makes him seem sympathetic when he could easily be pathetic.
He plays the fool, too, but it's a brand of foolishness (self-absorbed, now pompous, now pathetic) that helpfully dramatises his diagnosis of the world's ills.
"Don't be fooled, boys, I don't really have any sexual charisma – I'm just one of those pathetic transsexuals".
Not only has the G.O.P. spent years trying to fool everybody in sight with its phony-baloney, dime-store philosophies, it's now trapped in the patently pathetic phase of fooling itself.
How pathetic.
Pathetic you are, pathetic.
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