Word: patheticism
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Were those papers in that class in ethics and justice graded properly, fairly? Hardly. But then you should have seen this section leader in class on the day before. Thanksgiving when I myself was a visitor. He passed out a Xerox copy of a hand-scratched assignment sheet. It had...
"He's no fool." The hungry herds can be irksome as well as pathetic. The animals knock down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by...
It is in the second act that the comedy begins to become slapstick. At the same time Innaurato tries to get serious. Aggy pleads with Tom to return to North Carolina, leave his wife, and rebuild his pathetic life. Resentful of her condemnation of his life and his values. Tom...
The longer you sit there, the more pathetic and foolish the shop seems, and you with it. The plants and gaudy red flowers on all the tables are plastic. The eyes of the older woman reader, with heavy make-up, arched eyebrows, gypsy rings and long red dress, dart about...
Over the past two decades, Italians have certainly seen more than their share of photographs portraying forlorn kidnap victims. But this one was particularly pathetic: a woman and her son huddled together, chains around their necks, a pistol held to the woman's left temple, the right side of...