Sentence examples for Very pitiable from inspiring English sources

"His code of ethics is formed on this extraordinary stock of poetical theology, pagan biography, adulterous sentimentality, and atheistical jacobinism," according to the review of "Frankenstein" most widely read in the United States, "yet, in spite of all his enormities, we think the monster, a very pitiable and ill-used monster".

It was all very pitiable, sure.

She's simultaneously self-aware and delusional, pitiable and horrendous, funny and very, very sad.

Sometimes, driving past the prostitutes along the park road, he feels a thrilled apprehension at the idea that he might see her among them, though these pitiable girls are very young, almost children, and far prettier than Caterina.

And by watching him, would we see a glimpse of the "real" Bieber, human, pitiable even?

Ms. Cattrall's Princess, a film star by the name of Alexandra del Lago who is traveling the American South incognito after the failure of her most recent film, is at once pitiable and admirable and often very funny, too.

"The Knights of Prosperity" and "In Case of Emergency" have similar conceits: each revolves around a group of pitiable male losers and one very pretty woman who puts up with them.

Increasingly cosmopolitan, and, in spite of the crash, no longer the EU's poor and pitiable ward, it's easy to forget that Ireland is a very conservative country compared with its European counterparts.

At the very moment the reader might expect pathos or sentiment, there is a quizzical resistance to it (heron and eel are pitiable only in their "indecision").

Pitiable or potent?

How pitiable that is!