Sentence examples for effect of pity from inspiring English sources

In his concurrence with the Classical idea of the purgative effect of pity and fear, Milton combined reactionary aesthetics with the scientific spirit of the recently formed Royal Society.

The first time I was intimate with someone, they told me that they had done so because [I was in a] chair and that it was, in effect an act of pity.

A recent example illustrates the effect of channeling support in place of pity.

In particular, we tested the hypothesis that the effects of beliefs about controllability on the willingness to provide personal help are mediated by the emotions of pity and anger, but that the effects of beliefs about controllability on the willingness to condone state-organised help were more direct, and not mediated by emotions.

From me a tear of pity flows.

"Women come to you out of pity".

The looks of pity will vanish.

"The reaction: 'Oh.' And this look of pity".

But Perowne knows himself to be incapable of pity.

Not out of pity with the victims and the bereaved.

There was a measure of pity among some Gazans.