Sentence examples for a pitiful case from inspiring English sources
(Group 2, PT 4) "When you receive preventive therapy for something, people think you're a pitiful case".
And yet here's Precious, the most pitiful case in a pitiful world, still caring enough to look cute.
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11 the Middle East has erupted, driven by a meme — one of those notions that spreads across the new media ecosystem at lightning speed once a spark has been provided, in this case a pitiful porn-like trailer for a movie in which the Prophet Muhammad appears as a highly sexed buffoon.
The Yankees' thrashing of the Red Sox was a case of a pitiful team in need of mercy and an opponent showing it none.
He replies, "In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it".
He shows that, perversely enough, the one defense agency that had suffered draconian budget cuts was Norad, which had seen its alert sites reduced from about two dozen to a pitiful seven and, in any case, was unable to view large areas of the continental United States owing to its antiquated radar system.
And the sanctity of life is seldom invoked except in cases when shortening a pitiful life is contemplated.
Bruno Ganz was also considered for the part, but Forster decided Amalric gave the character a "pitiful" quality.
For instance, Simon Winder called Casino Royale "a pitiful spoof", while Robert Druce described it as "an abstraction of real life".
