The idea was that Walt, having outfoxed Hank, now genuinely pities him, and seeks his pity in return.
By not openly begging for our pity, Spacey genuinely earns our compassion.
But if you were to ask me, Adolf Hitler, what my position with regard to the Jewish question is, I would tell you unhesitatingly, in a genuinely womanly way: I pity the Jews, who are undeservedly abused in moral and spiritual ways.
Learn to judge who's genuinely supportive and who's pitying - pity is just another flavor of humiliation and usually covers up the other's terror of winding up in your situation.
Reached by telephone on Friday, Mr. Kissinger pointed out that he also wrote in his memoirs that he had become "mellow" toward Mr. Rumsfeld over the years and "genuinely thought it was a pity" that Mr. Rumsfeld had abandoned his quest for the presidency.
There have been no genuinely new modifications which is a pity, because there are a lot of good ideas around, and the poor world in particular could do with them.Crop circlesIt is too easy to blame finicky consumers and Luddite environmentalists for this state of affairs.
On the other, Edwards argues (against, e.g., Hutcheson) that most conscientious and other regarding behavior is, indeed, a form of self-love and that, in any case, acts motivated by rational self-love, conscience, or natural other regarding instincts such as parental affection or pity aren't genuinely virtuous.
The four songs of Mahler's Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, so often presented as expressions of youthful self-pity, became a genuinely dramatic scenario, the tragedy searingly convincing.
