Word: patheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kristine Kirkland, 5, squirms onto her mother'slap in the Davis Square DTA office and deliversher most pathetic puppy-dog expression. She wantsan audience for her reading of Cat in the Hat, andshe wants it now. As her mother explains theimportance of day care for single parents, littleKristine plows ahead...
"Thirty person rallies do look pathetic," he admits. "But people automatically become more interested if there are 300 people. There's a feeling of empowerment through rallies."
Besides, if Shaq had to watch himself shoot free throws, he wouldn't call fouls on himself either. Watching him put up those wobbling one-handers is pathetic.
His shoe commercial, with the line "I've got 10 fingers and no rings" almost takes pride in his lack of championships. That's pathetic--if he cared, he'd say no to some of the money and do what it takes to improve for the team's sake.
A visitor in the streets feels no tangible fear or frenzy, no outward anxiety that attack is imminent. Baghdad's new poor are worrying as always about their daily bread. A lucky man might earn 4,000 dinars a month, the price of a kilo of meat. Families get by...