She quotes a memo from Williams to a colleague calling two of the other scientists who survived "pathetic liars" for challenging his account, a challenge he ascribed to "jealousy for the recognition which I received".
Former detective Francisco Moita Flores also dismissed the theory that the child was abducted and said the McCanns' legal challenge was "pathetic" when he gave evidence yesterday.
George HW Bush and wife Barbara dismissed Bill Clinton as a pathetic hillbilly when he challenged the incumbent in 1992.
And even those pathetic limits are being challenged by Tea Party extremists and the coal industry. .
But after he appeared bedecked in strings of pearls on "Real Time with Bill Maher" last weekend, viciously defaming transgender people without challenge from a pathetic Maher (though getting some powerful pushback from comedian Larry Wilmore), a lot of people were wondering who this idiot was.
Former Liverpool captain and manager Graeme Souness labelled Chelsea's approach "pathetic" and was particularly angered by their reaction to Ibrahimovic's challenge.
The problem was that compared with the scale of the challenges framed by Grantham, the activity of Coca Cola Enterprises just looked pathetic at best.
His book paints a sobering, sometimes pathetic picture of American law enforcement and counterintelligence forces that appear woefully incapable of coping with the challenge from China.
Pathetic you are, pathetic.
