Sentence examples for pathetic try from inspiring English sources

It opened at the Paramount last night.As an isolated observation of a middle-aged man's pathetic try to get a little love from a sensitive young woman of a sort that he has evidently never known, this major component of the picture has considerable warmth and sympathy.

And seeing his parents, Mrs. Campos so sad and so pathetic, trying to smile at me, hugging me, and Steve, like we were Scoot's best friends.

Not because it looks pathetic, trying to wriggle out of your own catastrophe by pointing to something that happened to someone else 10 years since.

But the government's response has been pathetic: trying to nudge supermarkets towards developing plastic-free aisles and "supporting" the development of a free water refill network while saying absolutely nothing about how.

Sorry, I know it's pathetic trying to joke my way out of this, but however liberal a man thinks he is, there is still part of him that is afraid of the feelings that he tries to suppress.

At a distance, users seem a tad pathetic trying to trigger positive feedback from the shoe.

It just seems pathetic, trying to save face with humor.

"It's pretty pathetic to try to drag my father into it," he said.

Crooked Hillary and her supporters don't believe in democracy" "Pathetic liberals trying to make it all about themselves.

She laughed at her memory of "some pathetic guy trying to look and sing like Bob Dylan" -- who, of course, turned out to be Bob Dylan.

At the time, it felt like a poignant Chekhovian story about a decent, if slightly pathetic man trying to shore up a failed life.