8 uses
- (pathetically) Somehow, I can't feel it's right for me to go, Hickey, even now.Act 3 (76% in)
- JIMMY—(as if reminded of something—with a pathetic attempt at a brisk, no-more-nonsense air) Tomorrow, yes.Act 1 (49% in)
- (as Jimmy stiffens with a pathetic attempt at dignity—placatingly) No, don't tell me, Jimmy.Act 1 (90% in)
- (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now.Act 2 (45% in)
- Jimmy, on the other hand, is plainly drunk, but it has not had the desired effect, for beneath a pathetic assumption of gentlemanly poise, he is obviously frightened and shrinking back within himself.Act 2 (72% in)
- (with a strange pathetic wistfulness) Do you know, Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was known, you were my father.Act 3 (10% in)
- HOPE—(with a pathetic attempt at his old fuming assertiveness) No, bejees!Act 3 (73% in)
- (He pauses—then adds pathetically) On'y it was fun, kinda, me and Cora kiddin' ourselves—(Suddenly his face hardens with hatred.Act 4 (8% in)
There are no more uses of "pathetic" in The Iceman Cometh.
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