Sentence examples for pathetic tendency from inspiring English sources

I've never been sure if our impulse to laugh at people who are laughing at us reflects a pathetic tendency to interpret ridicule as recognition or an utterly unshakable confidence in our own identity.

In 1856, in the third volume of "Modern Painters," Ruskin criticized writers for attributing human emotions to the natural world, a tendency that he famously termed the pathetic fallacy.

True, the disgraceful misinformation pumped out by the well-financed Tory-press-backed no campaign swept away Nick Clegg's pathetic yes attempt, while Labour was split by its neanderthal tendency.

How pathetic.

Pathetic you are, pathetic.

Real Pathetic".

Pathetic, weak.

Sounds pathetic.

Bloated, pathetic, missing limbs.

The infrastructure is pathetic.

They seemed pathetic.