Now, suddenly, she saw the old woman as a pathetic ineffectual figure.

She thought he looked a pathetic figure of a man.

Obama cuts a rather pathetic figure in these circumstances, which not of his own making.

Kelly stared at the pathetic figure for a moment and then let him go.

Many of the judges, officials said, saw her as a pathetic figure.

How did such a giant become such a pathetic figure?

Seeing this pathetic figure, how do you feel about Oliver's fate?

- £ He took a last long look at the pathetic figure in the bed.

Jean stood looking down at the limp and pathetic figure of the Mexican boy.

You could argue that Byron is a weak, almost pathetic figure.