I'm not going to indulge your pathetic effort to forestall the inevitable, Austin.

Yet her pathetic efforts to elude him had a touch of humor he could not deny.

He had tried to cover himself with dead leaves, a pathetic last effort to thwart the remorseless little hunter.

He gave Hala a smile of encouragement, but it was a pathetic effort.

Mouse takes it and makes a pathetic effort to smile.

Louis shook his head in disbelief at their pathetic effort.

Watching her pathetic efforts, he had tried to be considerate and kind.

He tried to smile up at her but it was a pathetic effort.

She tottered on her feet in a pathetic effort to move away.

Now his followers laughed aloud at my pathetic efforts to defy him.