Sentence examples for but pitiful from inspiring English sources

Change is palpable, but pitiful.

Punchdrunk's recent Masque of the Red Death was OK as an installation but pitiful in its acting and narrative mutilations.

A six-page monthly financial statement for Deir ez-Zor province for January 2015 shows total monthly revenue was $8.4m£5.6m6m) – handsome for a terrorist group, but pitiful for a state.

Referring to the assessment by the appointed clinical psychologist, Judge Wildblood pointed out that, because of numerous delays by the local authority in managing the girl's case, it was "unsurprising but pitiful" that the attachment difficulties that the psychologist had foreseen had now become manifest.

2. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (1950) This bleak and unsparing novel, set on a remote farm in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, is propelled by three deeply unlikeable but pitiful people: Dick Turner, an inept but stubborn white farmer; his wife, the frustrated, proud Mary, and Moses, the domestic servant whose brooding presence oppresses the book and leads to its catastrophic conclusion.

"Upright, timid but well-meaning," Banville serves as Michon's Everyman, a solemn but slightly pitiful middle manager in the literary world whose dim blue flame burned briefly white in the presence of Rimbaud's self-immolating genius.

But as pitiful as your pension account balance might currently be, it could be worse.

To them, he is not a worthy competitor, but a pitiful curiosity in the cutthroat flea market that is Canal Street.

In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, García Márquez allowed his old Charon to forget, and the resulting memories are not melancholy, not even sad, but merely pitiful and disappointing.

"The best lucky charm around is the Real Madrid badge," insisted Juanma Trueba in this morning's AS. "Madrid's victory was hugely valuable, but utterly pitiful".

Taylor scrambled up dazed and confused, but his pitiful survival was cut short when he fell again in his own corner, and this time the referee waved it off at 2 46 of the 12th.