The writings of the 20th century are on the whole compassionate -- they afford pity for soldiers who are seen much more as victims than they ever were before.
In dealing with a meltdown of self-pity, be compassionate but wary as you don't want to establish an obligation as a result.
"A benevolent malefactor, a compassionate convict, offering forgiveness in return for hate, favoring pity over revenge, preferring to himself be destroyed to destroying his enemy, saving the one who had brought him down, this loathsome angel, this vile hero, who outraged him almost as much as he amazed him".
A Chinese lunatic had been placed in the vacant cage on his left, a poor mindless wretch, who cried out to all who visited the prison, that he had become a Muhammadan, vainly hoping thereby to meet with some small pity from the worshippers of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
In Jogajog (Relationships), the heroine Kumudini bound by the ideals of Śiva-Sati, exemplified by —is torn between her pity for the sinking fortunes of her progressive and compassionate elder brother and his foil: her roue of a husband.
This compassionate act points us to one of the novel's main themes: pity, its operation, and its lack.
Gay people were imprisoned for having sex, and even the most compassionate defense of gay people offered in public life was that they should be pitied for being mentally ill.
With pity and terror, he watched a bunch of naked actors con a nice audience in good clothes into complicity in the death of Dionysus' victim, when you are meant to be a compassionate witness to it.
