The best missiles Thallspring could have come up with would have been a pathetic token gesture.

Macro held his dagger out, knowing it was no more than a pathetic gesture of defiance.

It would have been a pathetic gesture given the fact she was crying.

She covered her eyes with her fingers, a curious and pathetic gesture.

He stretched out his hands with the strange pathetic gesture of a strong man helpless.

He pulled out his gun, the gesture pathetic, the threat, however, real.

She glanced away-brushed at a strand of loose hair with a vague, almost pathetic gesture.

This defensive system, which had seemed formidable to him when he compiled it, now seemed like a pathetic gesture.

He had put them out at first, with a pathetic gesture of infinite longing.

For a moment she seemed about to run; then she shook her head in a pathetic gesture and turned back to the spaceling.