A figure who makes a hilarious cameo appearance in the book, the Most Pathetic Man in the World, is here fleshed out into a running sitcom character, and thus entirely loses his impact.
I feel like some pathetic first-world version of Kurtz, gone upriver in Heart of Darkness, or the demented Japanese soldiers who infest Shinya Tsukamoto's gripping Fires on the Plain.
Wild updates like that are really going to win you fans [currently at 667, pretty pathetic for the world's biggest brand inside the worlds second biggest social network].
Loman's grandiosity, which makes him alternately insolent and pathetic to the world at large, spackles over his disappointment with himself and his feckless sons.
In the words of the medievalist Thomas Bergin, woman as "victim of man's lust, exploited, betrayed, and abandoned, who has contributed so many pathetic pages to world literature is simply not found in the Decameron".
It's pretty pathetic that the world of classical music needs anniversaries to focus on the music of VW or Messiaen, who ought to be "celebrated" throughout the year.
He did not say that a 1.6percentnt rise in manufacturing output is pathetic during a world boom, or that, despite the seemingly good export figure, we continued to lose market share.
