Sentence examples for pathetic move from inspiring English sources

LM: Patti Smith, Björk, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry... not one of those women would pull a coquetteish, flirty, pathetic move like you see in pop genres.

This lawsuit is a pathetic move by an industry without any creativity, as it fails to adapt to a new reality.

Israel's public security minister, Gilad Erdan, told Israel Army Radio that the planned speech was a "pathetic move" and "anti-democratic".

I'd thought that Garver (which wasn't his name back then) would make some pathetic move on the young man's wife, and I suppose the triteness of that idea made me resist following through with it.

As the Tory leader launched his campaign for the elections on 4 June, the only female Conservative MEP described his plan to leave the EPP grouping as a "pathetic" move that would store up trouble for the party.

If there was any light in all this darkness it was probably the misgivings voiced by the Hillsborough families when they heard that they were the beneficiaries of the only, and deeply pathetic, move made by the club – a £200,000 fine.

The day the brace came, Clark put it on and played tennis, but he could make only pathetic moves.

Two years ago, ads featured a male soul band singing the praises of the women's league; last year, the pathetic court moves of middle-aged players playing pickup ball were featured, together with the message that the women players are "better than you".

I know, I know – it's pathetic to be moved by a Kevin Costner film.

The play's famous final scene, when a sodden Jack stumbles into an apartment empty of all life, remains pathetic but also moving.

A real estate accountant with a high-end drug habit and pathetic fantasies about moving to Brazil, he tends to overestimate his intelligence and underestimate his desperation.