Example sentences for: pathetically

How can you use “pathetically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You can see it gathering steam in Surviving Picasso , the 1996 Merchant-Ivory film that views Picasso pathetically, through the unsympathetic eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot.

  • For someone so appalled by celebrity, Allen exploits it deftly, casting big-name actors to fill out parts that would otherwise be recognized as pathetically underwritten.

  • Not simply because when he was a political writer he was considered pathetically in-the-tank for Clinton (see Chatterbox for 2/23).

  • As the former Carter speechwriter James Fallows* famously observed in an Atlantic Monthly article, "The Passionless Presidency," Carter had a habit of deploying his intelligence toward pathetically small matters like deciding who could use the White House tennis court.

  • The reader may be most amused by lesser players like Mark Canton, the credit-hungry head of production at Columbia, who pathetically asked the producers of A Few Good Men to thank him publicly at the premiere (they did) and implored Nick Nolte to thank him if he got a Golden Globe award for Prince of Tides (Nolte won, but didn't).


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast