I hadn't taken it off all night, lest I end up a pathetic character in a de Maupassant story.

Ned grinned and admitted: "I get sorry forHeffer;he seems such a pathetic character."

She is a pathetic character, a disturbed young woman who has struggled all her life with feelings of parental rejection, inferiority, and self-loathing.

"I don't want you to get the feeling I'm a pathetic character," he said.

He's a pathetic character you first believe is the villain of the piece and then you realize that, no, he's not even close to that.

Lyle is George's arch enemy and a fairly pathetic character that is also very immature.

Yet, the plaintiveness in his lyrical phrases gives this pathetic character an affecting depth.

But how did this soft-spoken, baby-faced young tenor come to understand so intimately such a tormented and pathetic character?

She is rendered a pathetic character just by the knowledge that she would dress up in her "boyfriend clothes" and then spend the night alone.

In some circles, these two and their brethren might be deemed pathetic characters.