It's slimy, it's vulgar, it's crude.

Presumably, our attempt at resurrecting it was pathetic and hopeless.

Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot s memory.

All I have to do is show up in my broken English, look pathetic and wanting.

Bo understands that he should not be perceived as a pitiful loser who gutlessly besmirches his honor.

And he becomes interested in this dog because it's so pathetic, and it's trying to attract his attention. And he sits down looking at the dog.

But worsening financial conditions prove that this policy response has failed miserably.

After midnight, and after Mubarak's speech, that was more pathetic than disappointing, Tahrir Square was totally full of people and rage.

You have reduced the problem of the Arab woman to the feelings of men while she was reduced to pathetic images which perfectly represent the images the West have of her.

He would be forced to join Russia s pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country s toxic political culture.

The main questions are how authoritarian he will become, or whether this pathetic campaign will weaken him.

Paradoxically, when I let go of these objectives, and worked from a place of compassion and purpose, looking for excellence, rather than the results of it, everything arrived on its own, including fulfillment.

And it is more to the pitiful remains of the anti colonial revolutions in Latin America than to the community of Islamic states that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is drawn.

Tartous, the dreamy little town by the sea is no more. It has physically mutated over the last three decades into a pathetic jungle of concrete.

So now we hear pathetic echoes of all the reform communist efforts of the long years of Soviet decline Putinism without Putin, Putinism with a human face, etc.

The pathetic efforts to inculcate a common sense of Britishness or Dutchness in multi cultural societies, however well intentioned, attest to the breakdown of a common identity.

The image above is been circulated for a while via email. It's one of those campaigns targeting women in order to cover their body and get veiled. But many bloggers in Egypt found it offensive and pathetic.

And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.

This gesture elicited hundreds of Internet postings from Arabs condemning the award as treachery and lamenting the pitiful state of leadership in the Arab world.

And if you look at these qualities in the context of compassion, we find that the cognitive and affective components of compassion understanding people and empathizing with people inhibits, tones down, what I call the excessive self obsession that's in us, therefore creating the conditions for humility.

Whatever his decision, Taiwan s first DPP president will go down in history as a pathetic failure, because he used his office to divide the island s citizens, as if his domestic political opponents were Taiwan s mortal enemies.

He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber embargo against Finland and Sweden, a fish embargo against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.

So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end game of their management of the negotiations with small minded cheese paring and logic chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.