It is the little, pathetic attempts at Quality that kill.

I don't like seeing all those empty lines as representative of my pathetic attempt at a life.

I have the flu,' she says in a pathetic attempt to turn him away.

They laugh at his pathetic attempt and throw him to the streets.

I tried to explain Mike's pathetic attempts to be a "people."

The magazine is just making a pathetic attempt to get attention.

Despite the pathetic attempts to control this by various Governments - the truth will come out, given time.

His face lit up in a pathetic attempt to be friendly.

As if such a pathetic attempt would even slow him down.

It was a pathetic attempt, and the results were as he had feared.