Word: patheticism
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I'm All Right, Jack. This time Sellers is a union shop steward-a ludicrous but often pathetic petty-bourgeois Marxist-in an uproarious satire of the featherbedded "farewell state."
The agent tries to explain that a few individuals must suffer so that the whole region may gain: flood control, better crops, new industries, more jobs. "You don't love the land," he protests. "You love your land." She sends him packing with a proud but pathetic declaration of...
I'm All Right, Jack. This time Sellers is a union shop steward-a ludicrous but often pathetic petty-bourgeois Marxist-in an uproarious satire of the featherbedded "farewell state."
What happens if he does not get help? Beltrán has seen the pathetic silhouettes of the Incas' descendants in their ponchos, black pigtails and felt hats, herding Peru's 3,500,000 llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance...
All South Africa was stunned by the sudden bloodshed that had always been implicit in Verwoerd's unrelenting policies. The English-language Johannesburg Star assailed the government's "pathetic faith in the power of machine guns to settle basic human problems," and the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg appealed...