Sentence examples for pathetic substitute for from inspiring English sources
Ideological triumphalism over peanuts is a pathetic substitute for serious debate about deep rifts in the process of European integration.
As Mr Wolfe notes dismissively in "A Man in Full", the passion for the deal is a pathetic substitute for the male passion for battle.
Westerners tend to regard tofu as a convenient and perhaps necessary but vaguely pathetic substitute for some less wholesome, more morally dubious carnal indulgence a rare burger, say.
The rush by many Democrats in recent years to the so-called center has been a pathetic substitute for candid talk about what the nation needs to do and for fueling a movement based on liberal values.
In other words, she was an unsuccessful sex object, choosing women as a pathetic substitute for the real thing.
"Look, children are just pathetic substitutes for people who can't have pets".
It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.
The magazine, while acknowledging that "homosexuals are present in every walk of life," concluded that homosexuality is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.
Even in the liberal press, homosexuality drew scorn: in The New York Review of Books, Philip Roth denounced the "ghastly pansy rhetoric" of Edward Albee, and a Time cover story dismissed the gay world as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life".
Spain could substitute for Gujarat.
