He considers with pity the case of Vladimir Nabokov, who famously said he experienced music merely as "an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds"; he also wonders about how little music is mentioned in Henry James's work.
Has anyone stopped to consider what a pity it is for children to have identified and selected a passion by the time they are 16?
That's a pity, considering what he didn't lack in Augusta: class.
Specials are recited rather than printed, which is a pity, considering the noise.
And that was a pity considering that he had some fine, streamlined clothes in the show, not least the wedding gown, deftly sculpted in duchess satin.
This latter detail is a pity, considering the numerous unanswered questions raised by the couple's wanderings — sometimes as many as seven in a paragraph.
Kubot, in light of his age and ranking of 130, will likely struggle to get this far again, which is a pity considering how delightful it was to watch his throwback serve-and-volley style in the second week of the tournament where it was once a full-fortnight staple.
Meraj kept waking up and falling asleep on the bunk across (they both had top bunks), and Shockie considered him with pity, surprise, even tenderness: People were closest to animals when they were sleeping and fighting for wakefulness.
What a pity the producers don't consider a series on Mrs Mainwaring and the other women we hardly saw in the original.
