Word: patheticism
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Did you say paranoid? Is it paranoid to wonder why an editor hasn't returned your calls for two weeks, even though she has been sitting on your piece for four? Did you say egomaniacal? What self-respecting egomaniac would put up with the enraging powerlessness of the freelance writer...
Were this sentimentalism not so pathetic, so crude, there would almost be something poetic, something tragically heroic in it. Almost.
But what’s been considerably more disappointing than Harvard’s turning off the tap is the pathetic indignation of undergraduates. After so many years of getting away with breaking the law, we seem to have forgotten that drinking underage is generally frowned upon in this country...
All of this attention to the judgments of others will probably seem like an exercise in vanity to some. Margin notes, they will say, are not intended for other people. And those who think otherwise are just engaged in an exhibitionist charade all the more pathetic because no one, probably...
Davies wants offenders named and shamed, and the worst ones to be thrown in jail. But he says the Parliament shot itself in the foot by trying to keep the report secret. "It was utterly pathetic, naïve and hypocritical. You wonder what planet they grew up on," he...