Sentence examples for but a pitiful from inspiring English sources
To them, he is not a worthy competitor, but a pitiful curiosity in the cutthroat flea market that is Canal Street.
"The practitioners of the new labor history," Russell writes, "have produced countless studies of the unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O ., which emerged out of the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L). in 1935, but only a pitiful few on the affiliates of the A.F.L. after the split...
The chaos we are witnessing these days in the Middle East reflects not only a failure of American policy but also a pitiful lack of American self-knowledge.
But it was a pitiful kind of schadenfreude.
The cap set by the EC has been revised upwards but never beyond a pitiful fraction of what it takes to be competitive.
He received compensation, but it was a pitiful recompense for what's become a lifetime of chronic ill-health, and there is a clear and powerful undercurrent of anger in Landy and his work that is borne of his father's experience.
But the big interruption came with Takuya Muramatsu, a pitiful but powerful creature.
But Eve is simply a pitiful woman and Sylphid is a pampered, wicked fat girl with a bison hump.
I left his apartment early on the morning that followed our long night – a pitiful but endearing pickup line, endless cheap drinks, a late-night invitation and an even later-night acceptance.
The 10-year Treasury note is the most desirable security in the world as it is denominated in the rising dollar and yields a pitiful, but safe, 3.2%.
