Word: patheticism
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Like many shallow histories, The Appeasers is fun to read. The style is fluid and clear and the book is often funny. The condition of the Royal Air Force was so pathetic at the start of the war, for instance, that four small bombers failed miserably in dropping leaflets over...
Nearly every girl asked for more bookcases. The one bookcase in the model (with a pathetic handful of books) was "too small for anyone but a freshman," someone said. "If the College realized the number of brick, cinder block and board bookcases now in existence in the quad they would...
In the movie's most effective episodes, two people struggle to communicate. In one scene, a pathetic rugby scout clings to Machin; as he rises, Machin progressively rejects the puzzled old man. Also, Machin and his landlady, Mrs. Hammond, destroy each other. Neither can understand other people--but he approaches...
"Pathetic" is Conant's word for most required foundation courses. Tidbit surveys, such as philosophy of education, "leave the future teacher with the most dangerous of misunderstandings: that he knows what he is talking about when, in fact, he does not." Worse, Conant found in college after college that...
Bed follows the current fad among Italian films of merciless misogyny. The first half is wildly funny, the second half movingly pathetic. These two virtues add up to a fault: after farce, pathos makes a bitter chaser.