He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.
They look pathetically at you and hold big red hearts and felt flowers and things, in a slightly creepy way.
Despite looking like a little bruiser, he's incredibly needy, pathetically grateful for any kindness or attention shown him.
There was also something wonderfully refreshing in having characters swear when they're in trouble, rather than using pathetically tame, mild profanity.
Schubert's Masses show rather the influence of Beethoven's not very impressive first Mass, which they easily surpass in interest, though they rather pathetically show an ignorance cf the meaning of the Latin words.
