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pathetic
[puh-thet-ik]
adjective
1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable:
a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
2. affecting or moving the emotions.
3. pertaining to or caused by the emotions.
4. miserably or contemptibly inadequate:
In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence