Hagan, who is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a former Sunday school teacher, condemned the ad as " fabricated and pathetic ," and, according to Hagan's campaign website, a cease-and-desist letter was " hand-delivered to Dole's Raleigh office and to her home at the Watergate in Washington, DC.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

The pathetic evidence is no longer before us ; ;

The wife's attempt at control, these psychologists contend, is sometimes merely a pathetic effort to compel her husband to pay as much attention to her as he does to his job.

While conceding he is sometimes good, the authors claim Burton's " occasional triumphs only serve to highlight the pathetic waste in most of his films ; for every Equus in which he appears there are at least a half-dozen Cleopatras or Boom! s.

By the end of the series he is a pathetic figure, reduced to stealing his son's blood to preserve his immortality.

Sam Levene is affectingly gentle in his brief bit as the Jewish victim, and Gloria Grahame is believably brazen and pathetic as a girl of the streets.

Kev is cast as kind of a pathetic little guy.

Since many of the motet texts of the 1589 and 1591 sets are pathetic in tone, it is not surprising that many of them continue and develop the ' affective-imitative ' vein found in some motets from the 1570s, though in a more concise and concentrated form.

' The tale is moral and pathetic, but the truth of it may very fairly be called in question.

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

What they especially praise is the ethos or permanent moral level of his works as compared with those of the later so called " pathetic " school.

Darnley is portrayed as a snivelling, pathetic character who marries Mary as part of a plot by Elizabeth I ( Glenda Jackson ) to weaken Mary's claim to the English throne.

" He goes on to say that " his downfall, while pathetic, is not entirely undeserved.

However, when Fry reads Hermes ' mind in " Into the Wild Green Yonder ", it is revealed that Hermes sees him as " pathetic but lovable ".

The pathetic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.

The word ' pathetic ' in this use is related to ' pathos ' or ' empathy ' ( capability of feeling ), and is not pejorative.

In the discussion of literature, the pathetic fallacy is similar to personification.

Although Fowler retains a mention of human emotion, an essential aspect in Ruskin, “ ordinary modern use pathos and pathetic are limited to the idea of painful emotion ; but in this phrase, now common though little recognized in dictionaries, the original wider sense of emotion in general is reverted to, and ... fallacy means the tendency to credit nature with human emotions .”

In 1971, M. H. Abrams, in A Glossary of Literary Terms, notes that the term has undergone a relative diminishment of form and defines pathetic fallacy as “ a common phenomenon in descriptive poetry, in which the ascription of human traits to inanimate nature is less formally managed than in the figure called personification .”

“ The pathos has largely gone out of the pathetic fallacy ,” says Jeffrey M. Hurwit, writing in The Classical Journal in 1982: “ Today it is generally regarded simply as a variety of personification ...

Informally, however, scientists may still take advantage of the pathetic fallacy for quick and convenient metaphoric explanations of complex scientific concepts in a readily understood way.

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

His " Dialog with a Friend ," written after his recovery, gives a pathetic picture of a poor poet, now fifty-three, with sight and mind impaired, but with hopes still left of writing a tale he owes his good patron, Humphrey of Gloucester, and of translating a small Latin treatise, Scite Mori, before he dies.

The younger Alice paints a pathetic picture of Larry's emotional state and gleans from Anna that Dan still calls out for " Buster " ( Alice's nickname ) in his sleep.

Alex left, but Phillip stayed behind and when he saw how resistant Alan was to his physical therapy, Phillip told him how pathetic he was for giving up so easily and he still blamed him for ruining his life.

Then if she still declines to come we slap the writs on her before she reaches CW as we don ’ t want to be seen publically being brutal to such a pathetic victim from a concentration camp .”

The subject of his hallmark painting, Pierrot or Gilles, with his slowly fading smile, seems a confused actor who appears to have forgotten his lines ; he has materialized into the fearful reality of existence, sporting as his only armor the pathetic clown costume.

Still bitter and resentful, she dismisses the girls to return to their pathetic existence.

... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.

starring Lili Palmer, which covers much the same ground, but the central character is " perhaps even more lost, mad and pathetic, but she, too, has moments when she is a woman of presence and dignity ".

Turning to Leech's lithographic work, we have, in 1841, the Portraits of the Children of the Mobility, an important series dealing with the humorous and pathetic aspects of London street Arabs, which were afterwards so often and so effectively to employ the artist's pencil.

He published some Imaginary Conversations in the ` Atheneum ' in 1861-2 and in 1863 published a last volume of " Heroic Idyls, with Additional Poems, English and Latin ", described by Swinburne as " the last fruit of a genius which after a life of eighty-eight years had lost nothing of its majestic and pathetic power, its exquisite and exalted ".

He describes his almost pathetic attempts to find a finance job, only to be roundly rejected by every firm to which he applied.

Said Ebert, " I was so appalled, watching this kid hurtling down the hill in his pathetic contraption, that I didn't know which ending would be worse.

The poet also notes the “‘ heavy change ’ suffered by nature now that Lycidas is gone — a ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament Lycidas ’ s death .” In the following section of the poem, “ The shepherd-poet reflects … that thoughts of how Lycidas might have been saved are futile … turning from lamenting Lycidas ’ s death to lamenting the futility of all human labor .” The next section is followed by that of the voice of Phoebus, “ the sun-god, an image drawn out of the mythology of classical Roman poetry, replies that fame is not mortal but eternal, witnessed by Jove ( God ) himself on judgment day .” At the end of the poem, King / Lycidas appears as a resurrected figure, being delivered by the waters that lead to his death: “ Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward .”

This pathetic message is accompanied by ironic consciousness of the fact that it is delivered in not a very heroic period – a period in which a potential hero is exposed not so much to martyrdom as to ridiculousness.

Sadi announced on 15 January 2009 that the RCD would not participate in the April 2009 presidential election, which he described as a " pathetic and dangerous circus ", saying that to participate " would be tantamount to complicity in an operation of national humiliation ".

Suffering and joy belong to the essence of life, they are the two fundamental affective tonalities of its manifestation and of its " pathetic " self-revelation ( from the French word pathétique which means capable of feeling something like suffering or joy ).

In its pathetic self-impressionality, in its very flesh, given to itself in the Arch-passibility of absolute Life, it reveals the one which reveals itself to itself, it is in its pathos the Arch-revelation of Life, the Parousia of the absolute.

In the episode, Barney realizes how much of a pathetic drunk he is after watching his birthday party video and decides to give up alcohol forever, which does not sit well with his friend Homer.

For the most part Neil responds to Brent ’ s antics with apparent indifference or bemusement, although he is brusque and assertive after Brent calls him pathetic for socializing with the staff – which Brent has been failing miserably to do himself.

Even The Beggar's Opera, which is a satire of Robert Walpole, portrays its characters with compassion: the villains have pathetic songs in their own right and are acting out of exigency rather than boundless evil.

Joe Kane, the " Phantom of the Movies ", was even less kind: " A pathetic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rip-off, working from a script which must have been scrawled in Crayola, with every futuristic cliche you could possibly imagine.

As Nariko raises the sword to strike the final blow, Bohan's son Roach comes to his father's side and begs Nariko to let him take the pathetic, defeated King Bohan home, which Nariko allows.