Sentence examples for pathetic image from inspiring English sources

Bookended by the comically pathetic image of a lone traveller carrying human hand luggage, Cirkus Cirkor's show Underman, part of CircusFest 2012, is about three newly single men's efforts to redefine their maleness, battle a fear of heights, and find new outlets for energy temporarily diverted into facial hair.

Manet brought history painting into the modern world in 1867 when he painted a head-on image of the pathetic figure of the Emperor Maximilian being executed by firing squad.

What's especially pathetic about the current image is how it lists five examples of exemptions that on closer inspection boil down to three because the other two are redundant.

For Vašek's dual image, comic and pathetic, Smetana uses the major key to depict comedy, the minor for sorrow.

--If Americans sometimes picture the poor as derelicts like Soapy the bum, a more accurate image is far more pathetic.

But the image persists of a pathetic waif, too frail for this world.

Speaking vociferously to this idea, in a following image, is a drab, pathetic-looking sign for an "old timers' social and pleasure club".

Mr. Najib called it "total lies, fabrication and total garbage" and a "desperate and pathetic attempt to discredit and taint my political image".

The image is chilling, repulsive, but mostly pathetic.

He notes that Israelis have resisted "Maus," uncomfortable that "the image of mice contains the stereotype of Jews as pathetic and defenseless creatures".

But the abiding image we have at the end of this dignified book is that most pathetic thing: a man who feels he has outlived his time.