Sentence examples for a note of pity from inspiring English sources

Only in the final tale, about a lonely multimillionaire's desire for his sturdy cleaning ladies, does a note of pity creep in.

Not long ago, Wilson spoke to the BBC about working with a class of eight-year-olds in Manhattan, and one could detect a note of pity: "The children went completely crazy, bashing things up.

For Eleanor, election to the White House "meant the end of any personal life of my own" — a note of self-pity that F.D.R. mocked with an irritated quatrain: Did my Eleanor relate All the sad and awful fate Of the miserable lives Lived by Washington wives?

But it finds an interesting comic register in Margaret Thatcher, a note of distress and self-pity, loneliness and anxiety.

But at the risk now of muddling the issue and introducing a note of shrill male self-pity … how about men's self-image?

But Beware of Pity ends with a note of almost bitter disillusionment.

The novelist hints at an answer, a note of self-accusation, even self-pity, audible in her voice.

The note of pity in his voice was as damning as the jibe itself.

The note of pity, the hushed tone of concern, the carefully sculpted facial expressions of anguish — I became so sick of these that, in response to strangers' questions about the contours of my family or the number of my siblings, I stopped mentioning my brother at all.

A note of humility?

There comes, however, even through the brisk tone, an autumnal note of self-pity.