Claire and Diane, who asked that their last names not be used for fear of appearing pitiful, recently decided to have an after- work aperitif.
When it rains, the streets, many of them dirt roads, flood badly, and shoeless children appear even more pitiful as they beg for pesos.
His puppy dog eyes make him appear even more pitiful".
As Joan Walley MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee EACC), told the me: "The penalties appear to be so pitiful that water companies seem to be accepting them as the price of doing business".
"In law, the 'polluter pays' principle is supposed to deter companies from damaging the environment, but in this case the penalties appear to be so pitiful that water companies seem to be accepting them as the price of doing business," Joan Walley MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), told the Observer.
Bad set design can make an otherwise good production appear false and a pitiful play can be made all the more horrible by confusing environs.
The garden behind the fourth door (a screen in Giles Cadle's design) is a pitiful thing, planted on what appear to be shallow graves.
Or there are moments when he views himself and his fellow triathletes as they might appear to an outsider, as "a bunch of pitiful dolphins washed up on the shore, waiting for the tide to come in".
The retreat of American power, captured in the chaotic helicopter flights from a rooftop in Saigon in April 1975, made the United States appear precisely what Richard Nixon once vowed it wouldn't become: a pitiful, helpless giant.
Here are the travellers arriving at Peter the Great's camp in, I guess, Daghestan: "It was early afternoon, not the time when the army appeared at its most pitiful - for that you had to come at dawn.
