Sentence examples for pathetic quest from inspiring English sources
What's more striking is the form his dalliances took — not a private surrender to lust or ardor, but a pathetic quest for quasipublic validation.
"The Gift" mines the same veins of male envy and bitterness that Martin Amis so ably tapped in "The Information," and the darkness that creeps into Phillip's pathetic quest lends his comic misadventures a satisfying depth.
In fact, Fernández-Armesto's real subject is man's extraordinary powers of invention when it comes to finding and preparing food, an inventiveness he himself reflects by creating a mini-epic of eight chapters that document eight revolutions in our sometimes heroic, sometimes comic, sometimes pathetic quest to improve upon mere survival.
They abandon themselves to painfully ridiculous love stories, pathetic hero-quests and outlandish scientific experiments.
Wasn't all this just kind of a hazy and confused, pathetic and ill-thought quest for love?" My words cut my man-whore to the quick.
Coelho's fascination with omens, symbols and personal quests has irritated more than one critic ("Unbelievably pathetic," said the Brazilian weekly Veja), but he is one of the few new-age-friendly authors who have some literary merit.
It reminded me that, in our quest for true love regardless of our net worth we're all just as pathetic as each other.
It reminded me that in our quest for true love regardless of our net worth we're all just as pathetic as one another.
It reminded me that, in our quest for true love – Coutts bank account or not – we're all just as pathetic as each other.
Pathetic you are, pathetic.
