| My outrageous and pathetically demonstrative response arose in its entirety out of my sad and deeply personal unresolved childhood hurts. |
| The north-east is a strategic area and yet coverage of events there is pathetically meagre. |
| Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money. |
| She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears. |
| And how did he go from endearingly pathetic to pathetically pathetic so fast? |
| Standing up quickly, she watched the boy roll around on the floor pathetically, crying, gasping and retching. |
