Sentence examples for evokes pity from inspiring English sources

It evokes pity not empathy.

A sexual act that ends with the catastrophe of the not all-good man evokes pity and fear.

"The Stream's Secret," haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, evokes pity and regret by the power of its verbal music.

It has just occurred to me that possibly, when you see very old people apparently just sitting and gazing into space - a sight that usually evokes pity - they may in fact be having quite a nice time inside their heads.

On the other hand, sympathy is associated with the lack of responsibility and evokes pity and compassion.

"She evokes pity and sorrow like no other superstar".

Social documentary is customarily criticized for evoking pity or voyeuristic fascination.

My dictionary has two principal definitions of "pathetic": evoking pity and distressingly inadequate.

However, I don't think the purpose of the book is to evoke pity from the reader.

Bathos, (from Greek bathys, "deep"), unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow.

As far as the book is concerned, this disability functions as a device to give him "character" and to evoke pity in the reader.