Sentence examples for pathetic stab from inspiring English sources
Like Mr Woodhead, ministers are keen to expand vocational training (though he thinks they are blurring the distinction between the vocational and academic); and, as Mr Woodhead wants, they are making a stab at introducing performance-related pay for teachers ("a pathetic stab", according to him).Still, Mr Woodhead is prepared to put other people's money where his mouth is.
A confluence of historical forces, including a pathetic stab at Reconstruction by an ambivalent United States, blaming of the powerless poor and minorities for the sins of the rich and white, and a toxic mixture of regional esprit and invocation of an imaginary past to Make the South Great Again, all combined with overt racism to cause a century of darkness beyond the end of the battle.
"This final, pathetic stab at wolves exemplifies House Republicans' longstanding cruelty and contempt for our nation's wildlife," said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona-based environmental group.
HAVE you heard the joke about the two women who share an awkward moment when they meet an acquaintance in a subway station, and one of them, rather than endure pathetic stabs at conversation, abruptly says she's going to move to the other end of the platform?
Until recently it wasdoubtful she had any intention of celebrating her time at Country, DayAfter trying on just about every kind of relationship with her classmates-petulantrebellion during her freshman year, pathetic stabs atconformity as a sophomore, her startling ascendance to the class's vanguardwhile dating Jamie Manning as a junior-she had finally settledon utter alienation.
The flimsy, cheap oscillating one I'd bought that afternoon at the hardware store and left left running back at the house, a pathetic, sad/hopeful stab at protecting the hillside.
I try breaking into a pathetic little jog, but the stabbing lances of pain are too much to bear.
At which point Natalie felt she had to jump in and defend Jessie for no reason except, of course, her pathetic crush on him, "You stabbed him in the back first".
"Cut you bad, cut you like Rambo cuts a redneck," threatens the same pathetic idiot whose brain wasn't worth stabbing.
Stab, stab, stab, then rest.
