Sentence examples for pathetically that from inspiring English sources

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Pathetically, that may be the truth.

She remembers Lun burning with fever and crying so pathetically that it drew the attention of three foreigners, who gave her medication that saved him.

Van Gogh's efforts to live cheaply led him to rent the Yellow House, only to find out, pathetically, that he couldn't rent a bed for the house, or even buy one on an installment plan.

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It is a good sign that he has apologised for having quit that government after only 49 days, a pathetically foreshortened stint that was shambolic and illiberal while it lasted.

Only a writer worth remembering would seen the force of that "pathetically".

Only pathetically weak people that don't have the balls to say what they feel and mean are politically correct pussies.

So you can well imagine that the rest of Wall Street does not want that pathetically paltry wage control idea to spread anywhere near them.

But it's pathetically obvious that President Bush is incapable of changing the course in any area of his administration.

Even so, Andrei pulled the lank string towards him, pathetically hoping that somehow there might be a cat on the end of it.

Renier is heartwrenchingly real as the cold-turkey drug addict, pathetically hopeful that his promised cash payout will help him start a new life.

There is plenty of time for rugby to be threatened anew by the more tries = more entertainment equation, a construct so pathetically infantile that by comparison, the weekly bunfight at Prime Minister's Questions seems positively grown-up.

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