Sentence examples for eliciting pity from inspiring English sources

The challenge for the actors is not to undermine this by eliciting pity or sympathy; the comforts of sentimentality should not be on offer here.

"When organisations are still under pressure to bring in the fundraising dollars, how are we enabling people in wealthy countries to relate and connect to issues in the global south without eliciting pity, guilt or shame?" The increasing number of mediums you can deliver your message has also made the job of the communicator more difficult.

Was Gunn using Sophie to elicit pity?

He didn't milk his plight to elicit pity.

His cheeks and clothing were too prosperous to elicit pity.

And finally, The Groke from the Moomin books by Tove Jansson, who freezes the ground around her and everything she touches, although she elicits pity as well.

Thérèse doesn't need to elicit pity to be an interesting character, but if she doesn't stir the imagination the actress must.

The migrant and the Muslim woman may be the most marginal figures of our divided and suspicious present, their realities dulled into the monochrome of submission and desperation, to elicit pity or polemic.