Bigotry is both pathetic and foolish and bigots generally fail in the marketplace extensive systems of discrimination like Jim Crow and Apartheid have to be imposed by a racist government in order to stay in place.
Later, when I got to know more about the ways of Marian and her friends, this anxiety of mine appeared extraordinarily foolish and pathetic.
In contrast, Michael McKean ("Superior Donuts") speaks Elizabethan English with a winning naturalness, but he is ultimately too easygoing as his foolish and pathetic Gloucester descends into the play's grisliest horrors.
If she makes you feel inadequate, foolish or pathetic, she doesn't have your best interest in mind and you are probably incompatible.
I dug his disdain, delivered with slurry confidence in press conferences, and shared his distaste for powers that be, who seemed to me to be enforcing rules merely because they could, with a foolish and pathetic consistency.
Here the King was a really fond and foolish old man, pathetic because absurd in his quite unfrightening parade of power.
Three foolish, chattering women, a pathetic, neglected husband who had a time with them during a practice blackout.
By Sally Benson The New Yorker, July 25 , 1942P. 13 Three foolish, chattering women, a pathetic, neglected husband who had a time with them during a practice blackout.
I may have once, shortly after my confirmation, been foolish enough to believe in the possibility of an intelligent designer, but I have long since exposed the pathetic fallacy of that belief.
