Sentence examples for but pitiable from inspiring English sources

Their lawyers said the defendants were not agents of Al Qaeda but pitiable bumblers framed by the government.

His pride in his enormous belly seemed not laughable, but pitiable.

He ultimately gave the episode an "A" and wrote, "'Musings' is great because it transforms CSM from a living ghost into the walking dead still horrifying, still dangerous, but pitiable just the same".

He is brutish and powerful, but also pitiable.

Throughout, Ms. Barr is scary but sometimes pitiable.

Thank goodness, at any rate, for noise complaints: the city's youngest mayor, the cavalierly named but certainly pitiable thirty-two-year-old Hugh Grant, was at the center of the hurdy-gurdy scandal of 1889, when the city attempted to ban street musicians playing the now charmingly antiquated but once reviled instruments.

He is not pitiable but silently resourceful.

To his neighbors, Rodney Williams was a pitiable but harmless figure.

This Othello's fall is pitiable, but it does not make the earth tremble.

We in turn are mesmerised by the letter-writer's pitiable but profoundly perceptive, truthful voice.

Life: a sort of disgrace".Ms Hardwick argues with any notion of Melville as pitiable, but she does concede some truth in Lawrence's desperate summary.