"draw pity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to evoke feelings of sympathy or compassion from someone. Example: The sight of the abandoned puppy, shivering in the cold rain, drew pity from the passersby.
It was fun while it lasted and now we can all wear our Bills gear again and draw just pity, rather than hate.
The Off Broadway "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is up-to-date enough to define Jackson's impulsive populism as "Emocracy" and then to draw on the self-pitying, self-consciousness mid-2000s rock called emo.
An actor herself, she draws gutsy, self-pity-free performances from her ensemble, especially Powley and Wiig, and expertly fillets a well-balanced feature-length script out of Gloeckner's baggy, sometimes too-gruelling narrative.
But the line between war trauma and ordinary angst — between suffering and self-pity — gets harder to draw as conflict and consequence drift further apart.
Today's Iliad readers are more likely to draw from it a sense of the pity, grief, and waste of war.
This bill of oldies singers from the early 1960's is suffused with vocal drama and connections to Phil Spector, who produced Gene Pitney's defining hit, "Town Without Pity," and drew on him as a songwriter for the Crystals' "He's a Rebel".
Instead, write, confide in a friend, draw, take a walk, etc. Don't get lost in self-pity.
But it would be a pity if his eagerness to answer his critics led other central banks to draw the wrong lessons.
The overarching hope was to draw out a more respectful, constructive connection between slum-dwellers and readers than the default sentimentalism and pity.
Frozen in the harsh spotlight, he looked so crazy and old and forlorn and yet residually arrogant that an intense discomfort settled on the room, a discomfort that, in a non-charity situation, might have led to shouted insults or thrown objects but in this case drew a kind of pity-whoop from near the salad bar.
But there's still the bottomless reservoirs of rage and self-pity Walt draws upon.
