By which I mean I will use the most pathetic excuses to avoid doing anything. |
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They are so pathetic that it would be easy to show them up for the liars they are. |
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The pathetic creature that the monster had attacked was now being ravenously consumed by the large bug. |
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The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously. |
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She loves me, I love her, and no lying, two-faced, pathetic slime-ball like you can change that! |
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So, I say to these pathetic morons, if you have something to say, say it through the press or after the game. |
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What kind of a message does this send out to the cretins who ruin the town with their pathetic unartistic scribbles? |
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Well, I don't like the idea of having a man who sounds like a pathetic barroom blowhard becoming President of the United States in a time of war. |
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Samuel Owen's Winston Smith strikes a nice balance between pathetic mousiness and nobility. |
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He only shook his head, looking rather pathetic as he sat at the kitchen table. |
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I believe his obnoxious behaviour is a gloss to cover an immature, unconfident, pathetic and pitiful character. |
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Evelyn Waugh might have dismissed them as pathetic muddlers who did not belong in the church. |
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So I'm sitting here instead looking terribly pathetic in a fluffy grey jumper which makes me look like the undead on a healthy day. |
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They look at us coquettishly, which makes their slavery to fashion all the more pathetic. |
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Because, you know, I'd be more than happy to prevent myself from having to slobber over the same guy you pathetic cheerleaders slobber over. |
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It reached a pathetic nadir in the quarter-finals of the 2003 World Cup in Melbourne, when South Africa played New Zealand. |
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Coffee drinkers in luxurious coffee shops may throw a disrespectful or pathetic look on me, one who puts coins in the slot of a coffee machine. |
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The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability. |
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He has quite a tale about trying to get a hotel room and the pathetic computer system that was at the bottom of all his woes. |
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Sick to death of its sneaky charges, poor service and the pathetic rate of interest it pays? |
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He glanced back at the pathetic shell of a man who stood in the middle of his living room, whimpering and snivelling. |
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David defended himself, hearing the pathetic tone himself, now that he was beginning to sober up. |
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She was quick to sympathize and usually only a sob story could sway her vote unless the teller seemed too pathetic to her. |
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It is pathetic though to see the TN government indulge in one-upmanship with political rivals over the elimination of Veerappan. |
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Anyway, he watched his new vicious pet and this pathetic looking streak of yellow fins for three days solid. |
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They made a pathetic declaration and promise to cooperate solidly and amicably with the new administration. |
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No, he just has to perpetuate that pathetic myth that Britpop was some kind of idyllic golden age for British music. |
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Even a fairly pathetic human being is better than being a soulless android. |
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Here the delusion of judicial immortality takes its most pathetic form, blind to vanity and vexation of spirit. |
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You've become a desperate and pathetic figure, Amy Dickerson, growing jealous over a stranger's interest in the image of a naked butterball. |
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When you call up Customer Care, you just get pathetic responses which won't take you anywhere. |
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But we will not support the pathetic, half-baked attempt that the Government so proudly proclaims as its solution. |
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Brown's pathetic waffle was a real object lesson in what happens when politicians think they can take people for complete fools. |
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So, as pathetic as it may seem, I'm really in no hurry to join the rush to go starkers with strangers. |
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It's pathetic that a man of this century should be talking in such an offensively brazen manner about his son's future partner. |
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The reasons they've given are pathetic and even their own fans who I've heard from are not happy about it. |
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Many of the men chuckled hardily at her pathetic attempt, jeering her with foul words and phrases. |
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Humans have a pathetic sense of smell because over half of the 1000 genes coding for our olfactory receptors don't work. |
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In the midst of all this pathetic, empty-headed and incredibly dull nonsense, I offer you some photos I took late on Christmas Eve. |
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In his imagination, he is a Hollywood film star and romantic heart-throb, in reality he's a pathetic third rate cabaret act. |
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Instead, he struck out with a pathetic ten-second response to a two-minute question. |
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He had long, black hair that was supposed to make him look sinister, but the stringiness and greasiness just made him look rather pathetic. |
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It wouldn't be so bad if the ouster hadn't been made by utterly pathetic personalities. |
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As a woeful season comes to its inevitable end, I can only cling to two pathetic certainties, one sad, the other hopeful. |
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There can be few more pathetic or disturbing sights on the highway than a middle-aged man in a crammed three-door Colt trying to outgun a Lexus. |
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Of late he had a deeper understanding of pathetic fallacy as Ruskin had called it. |
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It is a chairman's role to manage succession and the Fairfax process has, frankly, been quite pathetic. |
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These are pathetic reasons for our representatives in Congress to be in a Chicken Little mode. |
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The main storylines follow his turbulent, and pathetic, attempts to escape from his chronically insipid persona. |
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The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance. |
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Once she reached the door, she made a painfully pathetic attempt at civilities. |
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His Graham is a pathetic, vulnerable figure who inspires both pity and amusement. |
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He watched as the shadowy silhouette of one of the pathetic creatures stumbled past. |
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His heart skipped a beat with joy and he then wondered if it made him pathetic. |
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It seemed somehow forlorn and pathetic as if it had been suddenly abandoned. |
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She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses. |
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From the very beginning, toddlers are made to carry heavy burden of books and copies which really is a pathetic sight. |
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She sniffed sullenly, as if trying to emphasize her disdain, but only sounded rather pathetic. |
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A big red bus rolled past, around a curve, and out of sight as I waved in pathetic desperation. |
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Writing a story about an ex-boyfriend from several months ago seemed a bit pathetic. |
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Anyone who is sick, or poor, or generally pathetic would lack credibility as a prophet. |
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I would like to know what pathetic excuses these so-called fans have for staying at home. |
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As I come into town, I pass the local mechanic's place, a pathetic excuse for a garage. |
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Then we get this paltry, pathetic excuse for a bill, and we are all supposed to become excited about it. |
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He covers his smile with a hand and examines her pathetic excuse for a tent. |
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I gave it a go and this year I have had about 50 apricots on my pathetic excuse for a tree. |
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That article was the most pathetic excuse for him to showcase his infantile vocabulary. |
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In practice, a vast amount of spiritualist messages seem pathetic in their banality and sentimentality. |
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I hope this doesn't come out as a pathetic excuse of why I haven't updated in a while. |
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Every now and then, we in the gaming community are presented with a pathetic excuse for a video game, a console port. |
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After they had finished their pathetic excuse for a meal, they continued on their way. |
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Jasmine gave out this little laugh that she thought sounded pretty pathetic. |
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Louis had a defeated look on his face and Henry was dancing around him in a pathetic excuse for a victory dance. |
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Of course, thinking that the daffodils were actually extending a welcome to me is a pathetic fallacy. |
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They were idiotic, pathetic, short-sighted and unimaginative, but at least they were predictable. |
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Some characters are portrayed as clownish or pathetic, yet its main characters are actually quite conventional in style and dress. |
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This is a pathetic argument, as everybody knows drugs like heroin and cocaine destroy lives. |
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But nobody, including the minister, was under the illusion that this was anything other than pathetic. |
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Those idiot pirates who preceded me thought all Torrencia was good for was robbing their pathetic little cogs. |
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I don't think I'd be able to lose sleep over you pathetic imbeciles if I tried. |
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I knew that Holly understood my reasons no matter how pathetic or petty they might seem to be. |
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His argument that the media invariably and inaccurately portrays single women as pathetic is a little hackneyed. |
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Yet in a pathetic twist of fate, John's final act was the ultimate percentage play. |
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His existence since that dreadful event has involved the pathetic search for an alternative fatherland. |
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It always sounds so pathetic when you refer to it, like some sort of feeble attempt to impress. |
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All comments, printed or not, panned the design of the concept vehicle as dull and even pathetic. |
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Their response, however, consists of a pathetic mixture of pious wishes and unrealistic hopes. |
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This pathetic king regularly suffers bouts of insanity and is surrounded by usurpers! |
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Fear of turning into such a pathetic figure of fun, I'm sure, is why I have adopted a pre-emptive strike when it comes to admitting my age. |
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So these pathetic people hide their pitiable gutless selves in the cloak of anonymity. |
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I'm sure I make an appropriately pathetic, pitiable picture, sitting here with tears in my eyes, crumbs on my face, in this awful red dress. |
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The answer was so pathetic and pitiful that there was no way I could reveal it. |
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Shane was truly a pitiful, pathetic human being, and Tal would not waste his time on him, not anymore. |
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Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a pitiful thing to watch. |
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In a pitiful and pathetic attempt to get his party re-elected, he has disgraced your wonderful country. |
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The denials issuing from Santos are almost pathetic in their plaintive appeal to maintenance of the status quo. |
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There are a few pathetic road signs pointing in the general direction and some small signs at the outlet village. |
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The truth is that France only have themselves to blame for the most pathetic defence of the crown in World Cup history. |
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Granted, his character is pathetic, although his hulky good looks and gentleness might have evoked a certain charm. |
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The writing is pathetic, but there is simply nothing wrong with its grammar or the formal aspects of its style. |
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I notice that whenever I start talking to someone, I put on my little pathetic croaky voice, and if that doesn't work, I start coughing. |
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It makes my little freak-out all the more pathetic, really, though I really did feel something touch the back of my neck up in that attic. |
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Tanya started to say thanks but then decided against it, since she didn't mean even one pathetic crumb's worth. |
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They have forfeited the game and are returning to their homes to lick their wounds like the pathetic curs they are! |
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The curtain wall around the town was not very imposing, in fact it was rather pathetic. |
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Right now, there is a long pathetic line of investors waiting for government approval, while the Cabinet gallivants around the world. |
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Will saw that the look on his brother's face was eager, almost giddy, like that of a young child's, it was most pathetic. |
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This is a lengthy and very harrowing account of an abused and degraded girl, whose story is at once pathetic and tragic. |
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Well I'm just in from a good forty minutes of hard labour all just to make a pathetic dent in the snow outside my front door. |
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It is to his puny praise and pathetic shopping list of desires that God, the Creator of All, elects to listen to daily. |
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Your pathetic and puny mind is incapable of any true thought, and merely lurches from situation to situation. |
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I'm actually one of those pathetic drivers who when having to take a detour, just heads in the right direction. |
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In your pathetic grip on socializing and pitiful understanding of how to present yourself, you will always be five steps behind everyone else. |
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And how did he go from endearingly pathetic to pathetically pathetic so fast? |
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But viewing his similarity to the other singer's voice as a disqualification is pathetic. |
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Now it is no more than a pathetic and abjectly partisan rag, not even worthy of tearing up and hanging in the outside dunny. |
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Not believing my first kiss had been with that pathetic excuse of a man, one that I didn't even know. |
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Often not at home, either out with some rich associate or with some pathetic excuse of a girl. |
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It was a pathetic excuse for dropping the Munster master that he would not be around for the World Cup in 2003 down under. |
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This is just pathetic, and is further evidence of the dreamland that California is living in. |
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The story she told, amidst many tears and sobs, and much use of her beautiful lace handkerchief and beringed hands, was exceedingly pathetic. |
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I'm sick of the putrid, pathetic, pukish pulp that passes for entertainment coming over our television sets. |
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The words, which contain a lover's pathetic expostulation with his fickle mistress, are set for four voices. |
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If you pride yourself in taking other women's men or being the side chick, you are pathetic and in no way a woman. |
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Its abdication of responsibility pertaining to right wing talk radio is particularly pathetic. |
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The sheer absurdity of the situation he recounts would be very amusing were it not so utterly pathetic. |
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But they did real warm-downs in those days, son, not like the pathetic imitations I see today. |
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There was no way I could stand another year in Andrews in my pathetic job which wasted my talents. |
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British management, being its usual weak pathetic self, tried to please everyone all the time and lost the plot. |
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They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are. |
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None of the books quotes any sources or authorities for its statements, and all have pathetic indexes. |
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The wet Liberals are a pathetic and spineless bunch who are wholly subservient to government discipline and their own ambition in equal measure. |
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It is pathetic and woeful, and it is a slap in the face of the victims of this country. |
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Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about. |
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Hopefully, the pathetic and woeful situation that has been allowed to arise will bring people to their senses, at least on the playing side. |
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Both were reduced to pathetic caricatures of themselves by the height and steepness of the bunker face. |
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If Ashley had been low and pathetic enough, she might almost have felt pity for her and her rejectable friends. |
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People do that because it's a quick way out, but then the rejectee may be sitting around in the pathetic hope that they are in second place. |
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The audience is made to feel sorry for her as she is used by these pathetic men. |
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All the kids around the playground laughed hysterically at this pathetic joke. |
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The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code. |
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Slowly but surely, the water level is rising, and pathetic river and sea defences aren't going to do anything to stop more flooding. |
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But even where activists have successfully sealed dry latrines, the fate of the people is pathetic. |
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In the end, my sister-in-law made an appointment for him, and told him to stop being so pathetic. |
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It was a pathetic love story of the romanticist poetess Elizabeth Barrett and novice poet Robert Browning. |
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Christa was good at making Chandra feel pathetic, she had it down to an art form. |
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To bicker senselessly and be sore losers is as pathetic as it is graceless. |
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His grades were awful, his phone bills enormous, his punctuality for meetings pathetic, his attitude lousy. |
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I'm sure that I'm sounding like either a pathetic lovelorn teenager or a sad bitter queen. |
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It is the most pathetic attack on public servants I have ever heard in this House. |
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It is a sad and pathetic world outlook that we are hearing from the National Party. |
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Well, if you want to know how sad and pathetic a scene it was, you can get the same feeling here. |
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It's a sad and pathetic conclusion but I see no evidence that suggests any different. |
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It could be cool, or on the other hand, it could be incredibly sad and pathetic. |
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Human nature and its failings are given a crude inspection, at times becoming a sad, pathetic spectacle. |
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The lure of beating a bunch of five-year-olds at beach football or Frisbee competitions may seem great, but it looks pathetic. |
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Many players have tactical abilities far beyond their rating, but are positionally pathetic. |
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Don't waste all your eggs on trying to get Maggie though, or you'll get a sarky reply when your pathetic score is displayed. |
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But above all it is the players who must be held accountable for this awful, pathetic display. |
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A Caesar salad is a pathetic nod to salad eaters, mostly because its dressing, like the blue cheese, is tastelessly industrial. |
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The pathetic servant boy came scampering back in the room in a few moments, meekly holding up a clipboard of papers and a pen. |
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The first hour of the film is the best, with Lemmon inhabiting the role of pathetic schnook that he plays so well. |
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I'm the one with all the inside info on every single student in the whole pathetic school. |
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In the meantime, Tully has met up with and taken in a pathetic barfly named Oma whose husband is incarcerated. |
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I spot a rather pathetic second-hand shop down the way, and figure I'll try there. |
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If you do not, then more of your pathetic soldiers will die meaninglessly against a force that they can never beat. |
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I even considered going to his house some night and throwing myself at him, which is pathetic. |
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Gwyn managed to make a warm fire out of a pathetic pile of dry sticks and brush. |
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Contrast how Helen Thomas thinks to Elizabeth Bumiller's pathetic thumbsucker in Izvestia on the Hudson. |
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I bawled at the end, and Rach laughed at me, but I don't care because she cries at that pathetic Huggies ad! |
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Am I missing something, or is this a pathetic body of work, as whiny, self-pitying and incompetent as it is hateful? |
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They hold the foreigners in contempt, calling them aliens and capering about in a pathetic attempt to feel superior. |
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No, Joe, you sniveling toad whose pathetic job it is to lie for other liars. |
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I want to ride every hour of the waking day, but after a month of riding, just an hour turns me into a sweating, out-of-breath, pathetic mess. |
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I felt that it behoved me to do my best to help draw attention to his pathetic situation, and, thankfully, my efforts have been rewarded. |
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He even cut his hair to resemble Hitler and grew a toothbrush moustache in a pathetic attempt to emulate his hero. |
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That said, Pop's jam sessions with today's torch-bearers aren't, as one would fear, pathetic indicators of a musical mid-life crisis. |
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It is sixty years since the fall of the Third Reich, and the hunted monster is now a pathetic and doddering old man in his nineties. |
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The whole world thinking that he is a pathetic loser is pretty much his worst nightmare. |
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It's just a pathetic mind game played by lefty town planners who get their kicks by persecuting motorists, because of course, we're all evil. |
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His frantic attempts, transparent and pathetic, to remould himself into something he is not compromised his dignity. |
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I am boring and bitter and pathetic and full of bile, but despite that, I care about you and how you care about me and we care about each other. |
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Many years of shoddy work has resulted in the pathetic shape of city roads. |
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Book royalties being the miserable and pathetic little things that they are, the idea is not to live off them. |
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He knows what a pathetic bint I can be at times and, as such, is probably trying to protect himself from tear-stained phone calls. |
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But this had to be one of the most pathetic presidential wardrobes in American history. |
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For some strange, dumb, stupid, pathetic reason, I started laughing. |
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Holden evolved from a slightly pathetic character to one with a very American sort of attitude, which explains the way the book rocketed to success. |
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His voice is now shriller, the sobbing more pathetic, and the words begin to garble as he swallows water. |
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He was a generally despicable character, always loitering near his betters like a poisonous cloud, seeking only to advance his own pathetic powers. |
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He even cried on camera during a pathetic and lousy piece of filmmaking. |
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A consummate Wall Street creature, the pathetic, groveling Paulson knew what would happen without a bailout. |
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Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins. |
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If they could launch a manned rocket that simply slingshotted around the moon and back, they could claim that at least in some pathetic way that they beat the Americans. |
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What a pathetic bunch of clowns on both sides of the argument! |
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It's a bit of a pathetic and off-the-point argument, when you set it against this fine speech from a woman whose views make outstandingly good sense. |
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The lengths we will go to in order to sublimate ourselves and placate the people we care about is a simultaneously charming and pathetic aspect of human nature. |
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The man was a pathetic loser who couldn't even write a decent story. |
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I'm sure this all sounds a bit pathetic to someone in your position. |
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A heartfelt and somewhat pathetic note the then-governor wrote to his wife in September 2011 was revealed in court on Thursday. |
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No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises. |
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Karl made some pathetic excuse about having to go to Croydon. |
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For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate. |
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If God did exist, why would he save your pathetic undeserving soul? |
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They've also been portrayed, by the husband and his attorneys, and by unsympathetic media, as everything from religious fanatics to pathetic simpletons. |
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I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with. |
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This pathetic schoolgirl crush is entirely intellectual and virtual. |
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I looked rather pathetic stood next to these long-legged temptresses. |
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Yes, unfortunately I do recognize you, and the only change I can see is your growth into a more pathetic and loathsome man than the cur I knew before this trip. |
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It's pathetic, I know, but then I also know that the vast majority of muggings, thefts and attacks could be avoided with some careful forethought. |
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Aye, we're a poor, pathetic wee excuse for a nation right enough. |
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I seem to be stuck halfway between fiendish laughter and pathetic sobbing. |
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Wordsworth in particular used the pathetic fallacy with great seriousness, not as a decorative device, but its use declined after Ruskin's formulation. |
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O Criomhthain figures as triumphantly heroic, while Bonaparte and his family are exaggeratedly pathetic and miserable, as the poor-mouthing of the title already suggests. |
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Hey, call me pathetic, but I was absolutely desperate for friends. |
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The room had darkened, as if obeying the laws of pathetic fallacy. |
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I question this, taking it to be nothing more than idle pathetic fallacy. |
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This offer was so pathetic that I couldn't imagine anyone believing him. |
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Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. |
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That this belt is on a pair of inside-out jeans makes him especially pathetic, but somehow it doesn't diminish one's respect for his intelligence. |
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Besides, the nation's nuclear program was a pathetic military attempt to make the country a world potence, and almost ended in a radioactive disaster. |
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It upsets me that someone so engagingly pathetic can be so disruptive. |
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Paul showed me the pathetic Porsche and then described his plan of reprisal. |
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It's all very trashy and pathetic with court rooms and smashed chairs. |
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But your pathetic attempt to conceal your identity made me pity you. |
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Standing, she looked down at the pathetic, toothless creature at her feet. |
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Her miserably pathetic condition abets her father to pierce the dagger. |
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I read the news in regards to your situation and find it pathetic. |
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Most of them carried little bundles and they were a pathetic sight. |
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I shower her with pathetic gratitude, and she shrugs it off, embarrassed. |
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The team was pretty bad last year, but this year they're downright pathetic. |
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The pathetic dives and writhing on the field is a turn off to the most ardent American fan. |
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These manic episodes, however, only punctuate a life that is most fundamentally pathetic. |
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But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen. |
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Pekar's endearingly pathetic life is given an new perspective when he translates his desultory day-today experiences into the basis for a cartoon strip. |
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Even as pathetic as she looked now, he gave her a look of gratitude and acknowledgment, she probably did not see it, her eyes were half closed by now. |
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I have a morbid fear of being seen as weak, pathetic or girly. |
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Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man. |
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Seguis ends his pathetic bleat with this statement to the terrorists. |
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Would it be another pathetic attempt by a local conglomerate to create yet another monument to French gastronomy by putting sad shriveled up escargots on the menu? |
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And using an acute accent instead of the correct grave accent is a poignant, pathetic reminder of the potential for humiliation that social climbers expose themselves to. |
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At times, her pained face is so pathetic and real, it's cringeworthy. |
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Fortunately, they are drawn from a pathetic preterite far beneath the contempt of our cultural elite. |
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I cringed inwardly at the pathetic whine my voice had become. |
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And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made. |
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This blatant, and rather pathetic, display of part-building earned him scorn from his vertically challenged friends who later accused him of selling-out to heightist society. |
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However, Timothy found it to be pretty pathetic attempt at an insult. |
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After all is there anything more pathetic than listening to someone peppering his or her conversation with expletives in the belief that they are impressing someone, anyone. |
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They are pathetic, gutless wonders who have the ability to analyse but are always cowardly when it comes to downgrading a company that deserves it. |
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The latest imbroglio is just more more good reason this pathetic loser, this pale pint-size knock-off of a genuine leader, has to be removed from the leadership. |
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It was all too much for my uncle's sons who were reduced to pathetic sobs. |
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I think this whole thing just reeks of a pathetic lack of willpower. |
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In response to Maggie's forceful charisma, he cleverly underplays the pathetic Brick, whose former glory as an all-American sporting hero has slipped away. |
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After a chance meeting, they go to the yakitori restaurant that Myon runs with her sister Yan and her pathetic, egocentric father, who is wanted by the yakuzos. |
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The headman reached out as if to grasp the major's arm before he remembered himself and snatched his hand back, but his pathetic eagerness was plain to see. |
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This pathetic excuse of a party is an embarrassment to us all. |
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They were praying for death for deliverance from pathetic existence. |
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At first blissfully unaware of the looming nuclear catastrophe, their muddling path towards doom is in equal parts pathetic, frightening and funny. |
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Presumably assaulting a 67-year-old woman and threatening to dig up her husband's body makes these nutcases feel like their true revolutionaries rather than pathetic punks. |
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They could stop playing baseball after the game because, seriously, what would be the point of staging thousands of pathetic anticlimaxes annually? |
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Simmons yanked up his weak and pathetic bullet pistol, and fired into the smoking ruin that was left of the North Portico, the front door of the White House. |
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As he suffered derision upon derision, I am not certain whether I should call this Monterone unconvincingly pathetic, or pathetically unconvincing. |
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HIS loveness is more human than Goethe's and songs are less passionate, but not less more perceptive and profound than intense or pathetic than Byron's, and Yordsworth's. |
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Painting needs no explanation or apology. This most religious of art forms belies the pathetic empiricisms of contemporary discussions. |
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The pathetic Usenet oldfags will cling to their pathetic, outdated and boring medium as the new-world forumites rule the Interwebs universe. |
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This desperate hackishness was all the more pathetic in people who actually still had ideals, but simply could no longer find words for them. |
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The referential frenzy elicited by Rauschenberg's tease can be purely iconographic, and then it is pathetic. |
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This pathetic prestidigitation offended the spirit if not the letter of the origination clause. |
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We don't want pathetic hand wringing from Labour ministers about time scales and paperwork. |
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The Kiev government has been a badly run kleptocracy, corrupt and incompetent, as the pathetic present state of its military suggests. |
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Raging Turriff boss Mark Simpson branded his side's display pathetic after they were crushed by injury-hit Broch. |
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Even if I wanted to a writer, knowing the difference between personification and pathetic fallacy won't help much. |
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According to an opinion piece in The Hindu, the government seems to be totally indifferent to the pathetic plight of convicts. |
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There's not a great deal to see at the Maypole, though I expected some version of what the literary critics call the pathetic fallacy. |
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The pathetic fallacy is central to the design of Birchwood, the first tale by Banville whose style is relentlessly figurative. |
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Equality and an end to the pathetic carpings of people who have nothing better to do than attack that which they don't understand. |
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Will the 2007-08 Lakers really be remembered as the most pathetic, uncaring, gutless losers ever to slime the hardwood? |
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For example, the role of cities as pathetic fallacy for the artist is easy to discern. |
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To hear players and coaches stating how well they played against these palookas is really pathetic. |
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My resident wizard will turn the hacker into a pathetic, impotent, cryptorchid in an anorak. |
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Lars is simply pathetic, and the people who indulge him come across like patrons of a Three-card Monte scam. |
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I insisted on getting married from a pathetic mixture of religious and animal promptings. |
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Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape. |
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Well you'd better think of something because middle-aged tramps aren't cute, they're pathetic. |
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You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic. |
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I can understand you being uptight over Rooney, but the rest of your rantings are pathetic. |
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Telling people that you knew her when would just be pathetic. |
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As I climbed with the pathetic yowls of a lost kitten ringing in my ears it was immediately obvious that what I'd heard was true. |
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Only a discombobulating dolt would not notice this and cling with pathetic desperation to the last vestiges of past glory. |
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But the rest of the guests were a ghasty bunch and poor Mary's pathetic attempts at ingratiation ended in humiliation. |
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Yes, it's pathetic and the kind of thing that only happens to sad old men with porridge where other people have brains. |
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Because there are one or two little stories which the stuffed shirt and the pathetic royal circus have pushed back towards the telly pages. |
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Much of what many students write is piddlingly pathetic for people of their age. |
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Many of these poems displayed what John Ruskin referred to as the pathetic fallacy, the tendency to ascribe human emotions to animals and even inanimate objects. |
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Your post is looking suspiciously like one of those litfan vs mediafan debates that are so incredibly stupid and pathetic and do nothing more than irritate people. |
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These descriptions obviously indulge the pathetic fallacy, a hallmark of traditional nature poetry that ecopoetics has striven to rethink because of its anthropocentrism. |
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I said, sounding needier and more pathetic than I ever have in my life. |
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It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed. |
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Working schnooks even have another pathetic hero foisted upon them. |
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For heaven's sake, put an end to this ridiculous pandying to the feckless idiots who have no thought for the cost of time and money involved in saving their pathetic lives. |
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