Sentence examples for some pathetic from inspiring English sources

In some pathetic way he's yearning to be normal.

Not out of some pathetic middle-aged vanity, but more out of curiosity.

We don't have some pathetic little foursome, but an unrivaled "Gang of 40".

Such stories are common in Gujarat's detritus, some startling, some eerie, some pathetic.

Actually, I still haven't heard from the ghastly woman, I bet she's nursing some pathetic grudge.

In diet books, the word "substitution" comes across as some pathetic euphemism for "sacrifice" and "compromise," a positive-spin noun born of negative circumstances.

Some sad, pathetic, broken female, like debris washed up on the shore.

A good metaphor should never be missed, and Hardie, a poet before she was a novelist, is alert, in a labored sort of way, to the possibilities of some fine pathetic fallacy.

I felt like I couldn't count on people to treat me normally or act like I wasn't some sad, pathetic waif, so I kept it a secret from as many people as I possibly could.

The increasing amount of quality competition has led these once-powerful entities down some pretty pathetic pathways; recent seasons have featured a numbing parade of expensive, interchangeable widgets with most of their edges sanded off.

Thinking of some broad you'd had, some broad you'd wronged, some nice broad you did not appreciate: 'all-old-hags-now-and-what-does-that-make-you?' such that, in the style of the old, you were missing some short, pathetic, but real moment of the remaining few vouchsafed to you".