The Tick and Arthur walk off decrying the pathetic spectacle they have witnessed.

You were making such a pathetic spectacle that I was embarrassed for you.

They have made of themselves a pathetic spectacle.

Kaur refused to look away from the pathetic spectacle of the youth's final moments.

Instead he presents the Beckettian state of living in uncertainty as a bizarre, heroic and pathetic spectacle.

It was driving him mad to be trapped like this, to be a pathetic spectacle for the embassy staff.

This really is a pathetic spectacle.

They were sodden and muddied and presented the most pathetic spectacle Ben had ever witnessed.

"She said she couldn't stand the pathetic spectacle of a man banging his head against an impregnable wall."

Left to fend for themselves, the others try to follow his injunction to keep their spirits up, a pretty pathetic spectacle.