Sentence examples for small pathetic from inspiring English sources

As the oral legend spread of Stack Lee as a black man who would not back down, Billy Lyons turned into "a small, pathetic figure, a man lacking dignity, begging for his life," Brown writes.

My life is a series of small pathetic failures broken up by unsustainable microbursts of clarity and achievement.

No battle is too petty for Breitbart, no target too small or pathetic.

In three dimensions, in a broader context, Mr. Camp seems small and pathetic.

One of Breivik's victims called him "a jerk" in the newspaper; numerous commentators described him as small, petty, pathetic.

What he did was small and pathetic and also terribly violent, and I felt that the shame of his final act became my own shame.

"I'm curious as to where one would draw the line between unhealthy eating patterns and an eating disorder," I tell her, and when I listen back to the tape of me recounting my food anxieties, I sound small and pathetic, like a child.

He looked so small, helpless, pathetic.

When the indictments came down, I was hoping to feel some small, albeit pathetic, satisfaction, but I don't.

Willcock stated, "I obviously don't have anything against those who dislike Titanic, but those few who make you feel small and pathetic for doing so (and they do exist, trust me) are way beyond my understanding and sympathy".

It is too small and too pathetic.