Word: patheticism
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When I think of Eugene McCarthy I think of symbols, I think of a pathetic Man of La Mancha crusader who holds his head high even while the crowds throw tomatoes. At the same time, I get the feeling, since we are in the age of symbols, that McCarthy will...
"It's a nice Valentine's-card poem," said Poet Laurie Lee. Other critics less charitably called Betjeman's work "absolutely pathetic" and "nursery-rhyme gibberish." Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn vowed to write a superior poem (he could not), and the Sunday People invited schoolchildren to...
Her flip side of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn": "The Pathetic Pygmy."
How pathetic that there are still generals who are unable or unwilling to recognize and accept the function of the lawyer in the Army, as evidenced by General Ulmer's remark, "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army."
As I said, it's a disappointing sense of the pathetic. Tony Castro, Nieman Fellow