Sentence examples for gentle pity from inspiring English sources
Our visitors from another planet looked at us with gentle pity.
The humorous article or essay, on the other hand, is a blend of sympathy and gentle pity with irony, a form of criticism that gently mocks not only others but the mocker himself.
The uncomplicatedness of these sketches functions, too, as emotional directive: we are to feel disgust for Hitler's private secretary, Martin Bormann, a gentle pity for Hitler's partner, Eva Braun.
In "K-Pax," Kevin Spacey plays a character -- either a profoundly disturbed mental patient or a being from a distant galaxy -- who regards the strivings of ordinary earth folk with an amused detachment that combines smug superiority and gentle pity.
Our reviewer, Hildegarde Hawthorne, called it a "great book" that displays "pity and truth and laughter, gentlest compassion, fiercest irony".
That most spine-chilling of sounds, the gentle groan of pity, oozes from the gallery.
When I asked about resistance to cloning and qualms about the genetic engineering of humans, Ral heaved a gentle sigh of pity.
The allegory is plain, but its blatancy is modulated by the depiction of Mehring; the reader's sympathies ricochet between sour and gentle forms of pity for this wilfully naive, unconsciously weak figure.
I've never seen Da before but can imagine a sharper revival might coax out the lightning-fast switches in emotion, from humor to pity to anger to sadness to gentle acceptance more fluidly.
It's a pity that readers do not see more of the gentle, smiling, playful Boyd on the book's cover.
