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Sentences ending with pathetic

All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic. [2]
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
When McClintock wrote this interview he probably believed it was pathetic. [5]
The ruins of these might-have-beens, how pathetic! [5]
He seemed altogether so thin, small, and pathetic. [2]
Mrs. Ferguson was so grateful, it was almost pathetic. [9]
And they were so glad to see me, it was rather pathetic. [9]
The language is so beautiful, the passion so fine, the plot so ingenious, the whole thing so stirring, so charming, so pathetic! [5]
Then does not seem to be any relevancy in what you have said, certainly nothing sad; and yet--maybe it was the way you said the words--I never heard anything that sounded so pathetic. [5]
Everything human is pathetic. [5]

Short sentences using pathetic

Except one; a pathetic one. [5]
It is a pathetic life. [5]
At last (and most pathetic! [9]
Pathetic, by all means. [4]
Isn't it pathetic? [5]

Sentences containing pathetic two or more times

Indeed, it has the same deep charm for me that the Vicar of Wakefield has, and I find in it the same subtle touch--the touch that makes an intentionally humorous episode pathetic and an intentionally pathetic one funny. [5]
There was not an atom of value in it; and whilst they thought it distressing and pathetic, it was in fact not pathetic at all, but actually ridiculous. [5]

More example sentences with the word pathetic in them

It was so young, so pathetic, so pale, yet so strangely beautiful, and her forehead was serene. [11]
We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face. [2]
With such a woman life is a failure, either tragic or pathetic, without a great passion given and returned. [4]
The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
The favorite song, which the crowd compelled her to repeat, touched lightly the uncertainties of love, expressed in the falsetto pathetic refrain: "Mary's gone away wid de coon. [4]
That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable--how do you who are familiar with it answer it? [5]
Everywhere dead men were lying outside the second fence--not plainly visible, but still visible; and we counted fifteen of those pathetic statues--dead knights standing with their hands on the upper wire. [5]
Two of these were killed by the Boers themselves, by accident, the other by Jameson's army--one of them intentionally, the other by a pathetic mischance. [5]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
He knew the very best background for a poem of deep and refined sentiment and pathetic melancholy was one where great and satisfying merriment had prepared the spirit for the powerful contrast. [5]
There is to us something pathetic in this and in the surprise of the English critic, that there can be any standard of respectable achievement outside of a seven-miles radius turning on Charing Cross. [4]
She caught herself up with a start after one of these silences to realize that Mr. Grainger was making unwonted and indeed pathetic exertions to entertain her, and it needed no feminine eye to perceive that he was thoroughly uncomfortable. [9]
Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
I don't take to men often, and to convicts precious seldom; but there was a look in this man's face which the prison clothes couldn't demoralise--a damned pathetic look, which seemed to say, 'Not guilty. [11]
We were forbidden to go on the platform in front of the Neuenkirche where they were placed, but the spectacle must have produced a strange yet deeply pathetic impression. [10]
He applied it to every sentimental remark, and to every pathetic song. [5]
She had not thought of this; it had seemed that that pathetic service was ended. [5]
His patience under this punishment is admirable, and there is something pathetic in his restraint from profanity. [4]
I confess that this failure of the annual graduating class to make its expected impression on the world has its pathetic side. [4]
There are few things in literature that are more piteous, more pathetic, than the celebrated "humorous" incident of Moses and the spectacles. [5]
I thought that they would comfort you, and teach you to love the sublime Being whose exemplary life and pathetic death are no longer unknown to you, since Johanna told you the tale. [10]
I fancied that there was at times something pathetic in her wistful desire for our affection and esteem. [4]
Every now and then in this big book one comes across that pathetic remark: "we tried to get him to sit down but he would not. [5]
Why, it makes them feel embarrassed and artificial, of course; and in my opinion it is just as pathetic as it can be. [5]
Try to feel the true bearing of my words, and then you will gladly join in the pathetic appeal to the sublime god to return. [10]
And as, at the same time, she again pressed her hand to her bosom with pathetic entreaty, he was suddenly silent, and casting his eyes up to heaven, he sank back on the prisoners' bench, deeply affected. [10]
I spoke of the previous conversation and said there something very pathetic about this half century of exile, and that I wished the L200 scheme had succeeded. [5]
Was this "religion" the pathetic, the soul-breaking make-believe of mortality? [11]
At six o'clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. [5]
When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart. [2]
Another illusion of the disease was his: that he succeeded perfectly in deceiving everybody round him with his pathetic make-believe; and, unlike most deceivers, he deceived himself as well. [11]
Have you seen that veiled deep glow, that pathetic hurt dignity, that unsubdued and unsubduable spirit that burns and smolders in the eye of a caged eagle and makes you feel mean and shabby under the burden of its mute reproach? [5]
That shabby dress, that pathetic mutilation! [8]
It was said that ordinarily the captain would have made a safe offing and waited for the morning; but this was no ordinary occasion; all about him were appealing faces, faces pathetic with disappointment. [5]
It is said that Mark Twain never really recovered from the tragedy of his brother's death--that it was responsible for the serious, pathetic look that the face of the world's greatest laugh-maker always wore in repose. [5]
Mrs. Laflamme declared that it was the perfection of existence for a couple of months, one in early summer and another in the golden autumn with its pathetic note of the falling curtain dropping upon the dream of youth. [4]
And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living--is there nothing pathetic in that? [4]
Virginia led the talk, but oh, the pathetic lameness of it. [9]
And during this sweet give and take, she implored him with pathetic fervor never, never to doubt her love, whatever he might hear of her. [10]
But with its splendid advent there came the other thing that always is born with woman's love--an almost pathetic care of the being loved. [11]
There is no spectacle anywhere that is more pathetic than this. [5]
Yet there was something to modify all this: an occasional indefinable sadness, a constant note of pathetic warning. [11]
And there is something pathetic and beautiful about it, too. [5]
The most pathetic sight in the business world is that of a bankrupt, old and broken, pursuing with always deluded expectations the remnants of his fortune, striving to make new combinations, involved in lawsuits, alternately despairing, alternately hopeful in the chaos of his affairs. [4]
In one little sentence Sleeman gives you a pathetic picture of this lonely old gray figure: all day and all night "she remained sitting by the edge of the water without eating or drinking. [5]
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle-headedness--and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all. [5]
Did you ever see the grotesquely absurd and the heart-breakingly pathetic more closely joined together? [5]
Take the pathetic relics, and weave about them the romance of the dungeon's long-vanished inmates as best you can. [5]
When I had recovered sufficiently there had been rather a pathetic renewal of our friendship. [9]
She did not recognise him until, with pathetic reproach, he called her by name and, horrified by the spectacle he presented, she fell upon her knees. [10]
It was a rash idea, but beautiful; beautiful and pathetic; wonderfully pathetic, the way I had it, with the rhyme and all to help. [5]
Even this died quickly away, and in its place there came such a sad, pathetic expression, as she hung her pretty head, that he could neither carry on the joke nor reproach her sharply. [10]
That is a poor joke, but it is in pathetic harmony with the circumstances, since we were so poor ourselves. [5]
A small seal playing by himself near the shore, floating on and diving under the breakers, is not so very disagreeable, especially if he comes so near that you can see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in this perpetual summer resort are disgustingly attractive. [4]
Hope with the patient, pathetic face, wanderer in all the oceans for 42 years, lucky in none; coming home defeated once more, now, minus his ship --resigned, uncomplaining, being used to this. [5]
It was almost pathetic, these puny efforts, because faith always sprang afresh in the success of each new venture. [4]
There was something pathetic yet self-reliant in the whole figure. [11]
It is a pathetic thing to see. [5]
It is a pathetic quenching of a sun which had risen in such splendor. [5]
But of these pathetic outcasts I have nothing to say. [5]
I have a pathetic memory of it all--of our little home, of our hopes for it, of our days of labor and nights of planning to make it complete. [9]
He had some pathetic little nickel-plated aristocratic instincts, and detested his name, which was Dunlap; detested it, partly because it was nearly as common in that region as Smith, but mainly because it had a plebeian sound to his ear. [5]
She made a pathetic figure drooping there, with her sunny hair contrasting so markedly with her white, wasted cheeks and her hands listlessly clasped and her little bare feet propped in the framework of the rude seat. [13]
There was a pathetic expression of sorrow, prayer, and hope in it. [2]
With a piteously pathetic cry, she flung herself on her knees beside the tailor's bench where he worked every day, and, burying her face in her arms as they rested on the bench, wept bitterly. [11]
Edward would make pathetic attempts to capture the role Shivers had appropriated, to be the practical party himself, to convict Shivers of idealism. [9]
There was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face today. [2]
Disintegration itself--in a paradoxically pathetic attempt at reconstruction--had built Glendale. [9]
Then this short paper of six lines was slipped aside and a long one of many pages was smuggled into its place, and she, noting nothing, put her mark on it, saying, in pathetic apology, that she did not know how to write. [5]
But he drank only half of it, and, at his sister's pathetic entreaties, had more water mixed with the wine. [10]
He was launched on an adventure as whimsical as tragical, if he was an impostor; and if he was not, as pathetic as droll. [11]
This gentleman was of those who arrive in Newport upside down; and was even now, with the somewhat doubtful assistance of his wife, making lavish and pathetic attempts to right himself. [9]
The pathetic story of the old lady's ministrations, and her simplicity and faith, also got into the newspapers in time, and probably added to the pathos of this wrecked woman's fate, which was beginning to be felt by the public. [5]
The pathetic aspect of the case has not, however, we are sorry to say, struck the American press, which has too often treated with unbecoming levity this unaccountable exhibition of English sensitiveness. [4]
On the night of the 25th the besiegers decamped, and in the disorder and confusion one of their prisoners escaped and got safe into Compiegne, and hobble into my room as pallid and pathetic an object as you would wish to see. [5]
By the light of coming events there was something weird and pathetic in this Arcadian air, sung as it was by her. [11]
He had not noticed that her eyes were like hungry fires, eating up her face--eating away its roundness, and leaving a pathetic beauty behind. [11]
No, there is nothing very pathetic about his case. [5]
He caught himself nodding, now, and smiled one of those pathetic, obsolete smiles of his, and said: "I find I can't go on; but come with me, I've got it all written out, and you can read it if you like. [5]
But that man never could come within the influence of a subject in the least pathetic without overflowing his banks. [5]
It is a most pathetic case. [5]
There are few more pathetic events recorded in history than this weeping, helpless, praying crowd, holding their lighted candles and kneeling on the pavement beneath the prison walls of the old fortress. [5]
The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit. [5]
Ruskin, John: on metaphysics, 250; certain chapters, 336; pathetic fallacy, 337; plagiarism, 384. [6]
It caused the memorable disaster to the Duncan Dunbar, one of the most pathetic tragedies in the history of that pitiless ruffian, the sea. [5]
He stood before me and inclined his head (and body) in the pathetic Indian way, touching his forehead with the finger--ends of his right hand, in salute. [5]
She found this look of Dryfoos's pathetic, and dwelt on the sort of stupefaction there was in it; he must have loved his son more than they ever realized. [8]
The road was long, and yet short, for my brain whirled with the expectation of seeing Nick again, and the thought of this poor, pathetic, ludicrous expedition compared to the sublime one I had known. [9]
The persecuted President leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, clasped his hands in his lap, and a look of pathetic resignation crept over his long face. [5]
I took a last pathetic look upon the pleasant summer scene about me, then boldly put my eye to the glass and prepared to mount among the grim glaciers and the everlasting snows. [5]
To one who knows how life goes astray in the solicitations of the great world, there was something pathetic in Edith's pleasure. [4]
But I don't know that they would be pathetic if they were not ludicrous. [4]
There was a kind of hopeless languor about her which struck me as pathetic. [11]
The old abbot's joy to see me was pathetic. [5]
Poor old dying John of Gaunt volleying second-rate puns at his own name, is a pathetic instance of it. [5]
In speaking of it, Mark Twain once said: "It is as pathetic a romance as any that has crossed the field of my personal experience in a long lifetime. [5]
As I saw it in this foolish vision, how pathetic this labor was from generation to generation; so many vessels launched; so few making a voyage even for a lifetime; so many builders confident of immortality; so many lives outlasting this coveted reputation! [4]
The pity of it all, the pathetic humor of it, there was none to see; they themselves were unconscious of it. [5]
Ah, Stephen, that is the most pathetic thing in life, next to leaving the Fatherland. [9]

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