Sentence examples for would pathetically from inspiring English sources

But — as is obvious from "Citizen Kane" itself — he knew that his ambitions and his abilities contained the seed of a great fall, one that wouldn't so much resound as it would pathetically dwindle.

Conservationists and climate campaigners said the pledge, to be taken to the United Nations meeting in Paris in December, would be "pathetically inadequate".

The chief executive of the Climate Institute, John Connor, said 26% would be "pathetically inadequate" and still leave Australia as "the highest per capita emitter in the world".

While effective in many situations, such tactics would prove pathetically inadequate in the face of the ILWU's credible threat to shut down $6 billion worth of U.S. foreign trade a week.

The more likely outcome, however, is also the one that would, somewhat pathetically, also be the best one: that Bolton turns out to be just another celebrity hire who thinks he has been brought on board to help steer the ship of state — only to find that the rudder has long been broken, and the captain is already extending yet another plank to be walked.

Of course, lazy pupils can purchase this case of 99 beers, but doing so would be pathetically un-résumé worthy.

I doubt that Democrats, faced with a leader like Trump, would fall this pathetically into line.

If the United States were concerned with the human toll and not just its business interests, the El Paso-Juárez Paso-Juárezwhich is really the U.S.-Mexico dichotomy) which not be pathetisally reallyd the"symbiotic and parasitic".

Charles Manson made many grand predictions in the 60s to his doped-up, damaged followers about his future, but he never foresaw that he would waste away pathetically, a broken old man in prison.

Instead of admitting total defeat, Mr Mistry probably hopes to sell all or part of Corus, or allow it to partially default on its huge debts (which are ring-fenced and not guaranteed by the Tata group).Too big a write-off might suggest he would accept a pathetically low price, or cede control of Corus to the banks.

If it weren't such a grave issue, the Bush administration's fine-tuning of its main justification for taking our country to war would almost be pathetically funny ("Bush Backs Away From His Claims About Iraq Arms," front page, Jan . 28.