Word: patheticism
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Dean Rusk should not suppose that he can use the leaders to show how doubters may be converted to believers with a balanced dose of expertise and banality. His most recent response to their questions was almost pathetic in its reliance on worn-out shells of ideas. There may be...
The next 13 minutes were pathetic. Harvard's attack systematically disintegrated at the blue line and didn't produce a single shot even when the Huskies were a man down. (Thornton recorded 3 saves for the entire period.) The only effective checking was inappropriately directed at the Northeastern goalie.
Georgy Girl is supposed to affect you like that. It's another one of those "literal dramas" the British are turning out, with arch jokes, easily identified London streets, pathetic but not particularly likeable characters, and a lot of inexplicable movement that is intended to pass for gaiety. All the...
Tension is set up most intensely in the sadic electricity that crackles between the principals. Pleasence plays the husband as the abject dog beneath the good grey skin of a middle-aged respectable who has made his pile and lost his nerve, as a whipped cur whining, wriggling, licking, leaking...
In Lagos, the newspaper Daily Sketch made an eloquent and pathetic plea for sanity. "Will no one save Nigeria?" it asked. "Is there no one whose love for Nigeria transcends love of tribe or personal safety, who is willing to come forward and seek others like himself to nurse this...