Sentence examples for that a pathetic from inspiring English sources

I am always struck at blood-doning sessions by the fact that a pathetic 4% of the UK population are active donors.

My old literature teacher would call that a pathetic fallacy, my giving inanimate objects, even flowers, a human character -- but the more humans become objects, the easier I find it to admire the beauty of that abandoned and lovely ladder.

That is a pathetic response.

That was a pathetic miss by Lee Dong-Gook.

That's a pathetic 1.4-percent profit margin.

But Collinsworth saw incompetence, not skill: "That's a pathetic effort by the Eagles.

They have to decide between the lesser of two evils, and that's a pathetic place to be".

I think that's a pathetic way for a great party to behave: one more heave means one more defeat.

At his final black-tie dinner as president with the White House press corps, Mr. Clinton presented a video that showed a pathetic president trying mightily to remain relevant.

That's a pathetic number, but not quite as disheartening as it would have been if it had dropped to 16, courtesy of Joe Miller, whose primary win was mainly because of the anti-abortion rights movement.

"That is a pathetic excuse," he told the BBC.