Sentence examples for sweet pathetic from inspiring English sources

Just before he died, he painted a sweet, pathetic head, like a bandaged Olmec rock, gazing dubiously up a rubbly hill.

Just before he died, Guston painted a sweet, pathetic head, like a bandaged Olmec rock, gazing dubiously up a rubbly hill.

Just before he died in 1980, Guston painted a sweet, pathetic head, like a bandaged Olmec rock, gazing dubiously up a rubbly hill.

Her performance on Wednesday was polished and all but flawless — although she did almost slip when she tried to describe her husband's easygoing personality and said what some in the audience heard as "sweet and pathetic".

Criminals' sweeter and more pathetic sides can emerge in objects for sale.

Rawlings writes of her: "She is very sweet and a little pathetic, and I understand her.

Sweet, really, but sweetly pathetic.

This way, though, the pancakes are sweeter and non-Ethiopians, with their pathetic taste buds, can enjoy the goodness of teff.

Their encounter is awkward and a little pathetic but also courteous and sweet, and Mr. Kiarostami plays with our implicit assumptions about what kind of a story this might be.

S. Millett Thompson, of the 13th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, reported that "the bands are forbidden to play pathetic or plaintive tunes, such as Home, Sweet Home… Auld Lang Syne, etc., lest they serve to dispirit, and unnerve our suffering men".

How pathetic.