Sentence examples for was rather pathetic from inspiring English sources
As hatchet jobs go, the Sunday Express's attempt to smear Labour's new leader with an "exclusive" tale about his ancestry was rather pathetic.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault linked Mr. Depardieu's move to the tax rate, saying in a TV interview that the decision was "rather pathetic," adding "He's a great star, everyone loves him as an artist," but that "to pay a tax is an act of solidarity, a patriotic act".
He breaks the mould of male companions on Nu-Who, who have been rather pathetic.
making up a personality just to be different and talked about and put the spotlight on yourself is rather pathetic and immature.
Actually, they seem to know, in the film, that they're rather pathetic; in manipulating their sleeping beauty, they purchase their invisibility.
The havoc wrought on the Ekdal family is rather pathetic than tragic; but the working out of the action achieves a kind of mournful poetry that is quite new in Ibsen's repertoire.
"And even that one is rather pathetic," says a banker at another global bank.The root of the problem is the country's regional structure: the savings banks and their wholesale partners, the Landesbanks, are organised on regional lines.
It's rather pathetic to watch a TV 'page-turner' strain so obviously, and ineffectively, for profundity.
The Army is an exception, but the amount of increase is rather pathetic.
It is rather pathetic that integrity has become such a rare commodity in our public discourse that it is now a special event, worthy of praise and recognition.
