Word: patheticism
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The only team that Harvard managed to finish ahead of was a pathetic Boston College team.
But Brando cannot connect the different sides of him which his director has simply caught, not structured. Bertolucci is too busy using facile Freudianisms to account for Paul's aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for...
Lee Richmond's High on Gold--and the title speaks for itself--is a swansong from the heart that seems to have taken rather a long time getting to the mouth. Five years in the composing is slightly ridiculous, given the product. Given the timing, it's a little pathetic...
Any young person who finds it difficult to cope with society, who has an emotional problem or is a heavy user of drugs is a prime target for the tentacles of the Children of God. I know. I spent three months in England trying to persuade my 19-year-old...
BUT THE dominant dewy-eyed side of Deck is at the heart of the book, and the glorification of such characters never ceases to frighten me -- particularly when someone like McMurtry portrays him as charming and attractive. If we are meant to recognize the ridiculousness of the existence of such...