Sentence examples for pathetic spectacle from inspiring English sources
On Trevor-Roper's account, Adolf Hitler presented a pathetic spectacle.
He made a point, then, of lambasting the "pathetic spectacle" of rotten African leaders flying to summits in executive jets.
Instead he presents the Beckettian state of living in uncertainty as a bizarre, heroic and pathetic spectacle.
He was a piteous, pathetic spectacle in defeat; his execution by hanging in 2006, still on YouTube, was just as bizarre and disturbing.
But of course everybody who's sold out and been co-opted, as I obviously have, says the same thing, and it makes for a pathetic spectacle.
"The long, pathetic spectacle brought joy only to the jackals of the British tabloids, which sneered in big headlines at each new downturn".
In terms of pathetic spectacles in New York City, the one organization that really owes No Labels their gratitude is the New York Jets.
By Ellis Weiner The New Yorker, September 8 , 1980 P. 31All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt!
The New Yorker, September 8 , 1980P. 31 All passeist, immobile, fixed-launcher guided-missile systems present such a monstrous spectacle of pathetic backwardness and obsolescence that our MX Missilist eyes turn away with profoundest disgust and contempt!
His preposterously exuberant cult of personality was surely shattered by the spectacle of his pathetic demolition.
Sitting on the stage for the entire performance, she cuts a pathetic figure: feet turned in, oversized spectacles, body stilled in subdued contemplation.
