Word: patheticism
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It hurts, yes. My Olympic memories begin in 1972, with black-and-white images of Shane Gould and Beverley Whitfield, Australian champions of the pool, and snippets of overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports...
Words can't begin to express how disgusted and ashamed I am by revelations of prisoner abuse. But it is even more saddening to hear the pathetic excuse that terrorists don't play by the rules, so we don't have to either. Is that the standard we're adopting...
Well, not exactly. Unfortunately, this noble action was no more than the figment of an imagination waxing pathetic. In reality, President Bush, despite repeated appeals from the Department of Education, simply could not be convinced to attend. A similar fate had arisen the previous year, when I was a scholar...
How does it work? Most of the questions are answered by humans rather than by computers, which Myers describes as "notoriously pathetic" at understanding natural language. AQA has a team of 50 researchers (which Myers hopes to enlarge to 200 by the end of the year) who scurry for facts...
Words can't begin to express how disgusted and ashamed I am by revelations of prisoner abuse. But it is even more saddening to hear the pathetic excuse that terrorists don't play by the rules, so we don't have to either. Is that the standard we're adopting...