Sentence examples for In pitiful from inspiring English sources

In pitiful Afghanistan, this spot of devastation is now considered a place of plenty.

In pitiful Afghanistan, this spot of scorched earth is now considered a place of plenty, attracting dozens of scavengers who come for the precious scrap metal, which, even if they are careful, is liable to explode in their hands and blow them to bits.

And it's all written in pitiful child-speak.

The reply described the plight of the Kaifeng Jews in pitiful terms.

Thanks to a dozen years of UN sanctions, and many more years of mismanagement and over-exploitation, the country's petroleum industry is in pitiful shape.

He was released in 2011 only after it was argued that he was dying.Fittingly, he managed to postpone that fate a bit, but he was in pitiful condition.

Rights group Amnesty International has criticised the world's richest nations for taking in a "pitiful" number of Syria's most vulnerable refugees.

The angel Damiel (Bernard White) aches to join the flow of life, to know the taste of an apple and the touch of a womans skin, but these streams of flowing sand, which collect in pitiful-looking, uneven piles on the stage, wordlessly and movingly express the heavy weight of times inexorable passing.

The seven men, who have been in ISI custody since being acquitted by an antiterrorism court in 2010, appeared in court in a pitiful state, and looked gravely ill.

Wolves were in a pitiful state in 1986.

The Muslim organisations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal's operation..