Sentence examples for But pitifully from inspiring English sources

(This ignores the ambiguous case of Genoa, extremely powerful economically but pitifully weak politically).

A couple who have a flat in a brownstone off Gramercy Park arrived home the other night to find a decently dressed but pitifully mussed-up young man spread-eagle on their stoop.

Against the background of slack "illustrated" magazines that filled American newsstands, dense with exotic scenes but pitifully vague and inexact about their details, National Geographic promised to do what it then did: fight the fight for the one true map of the world, point by point and native by native, even, though not often, nipple by nipple.

By Berton Roueché The New Yorker, February 14 , 1959P. 27 A couple who have a flat in a brownstone off Gramercy Park arrived home the other night to find a decently dressed but pitifully mussed-up young man spread-eagle on their stoop.

– Mark Bowers So it's an extremely interesting question but a pitifully small sample upon which to even consider writing and analysis.

As the new season opens, Heidi is living with the vile Spencer but still pitifully imagining she might get back into Lauren's good graces.

To date the practice has earned $85 million in fees doing Madoff work but has pitifully little to show for it.

Savings rates are up, but from pitifully low levels.

But Liz is pitifully insecure.

But there was pitifully little of it.

Both were artists striving for public acclaim: Stevens received just that but Drake was pitifully ignored.