Sentence examples for in a pitiable from inspiring English sources
From the wreckage I've rescued barely a thousand words in a pitiable state.
Arriving near the album's end, this song finally bathes Ms. Jones in a pitiable light: she's being foolish, and she can't help it.
Chinese soccer is in a pitiable state because of endemic corruption and a lack of professionalism, and there are plans for Italy, home to some of the world's greatest teams, to train Chinese players, especially young ones, in the new stadium, CCTV reported.
The country's first culture minister was appointed two years ago, but the ministry produces few ideas about how to save, let alone promote, Nigeria's heritage.The ancient walled cities of Benin, in the south, and Kano, in the north, are in a pitiable state of decay.
Composers, for example – the people who are, after all, the heart of the artform – are in a pitiable state in this country, on average earning just £3,700 a year from their music, according to a study published by Sound and Music last year.
In a damning finding, she said that that one of the "most disturbing things" revealed in the abusive text message exchanges between them "was that the mother repeatedly sought to ingratiate herself with the father in a pitiable and wretched way at the expense of her children".
Judging by the disconsolate waves that some of these men have given passing reporters in recent days, a gesture hitherto unknown among anybody serving in the security apparatus surrounding Mr. Hussein, they may have lived their last days in anticipation of a pitiable end.
Near the end, he collapses drunkenly in the snow like a pitiable, pint-sized King Lear.
And the rawness of Joplin's singing is missing, until Ms. Sims goes all out in the final scene, a pitiable ruin who can only grab for her flowers and kick viciously at the world around her.
Julianne Moore is the mother, either a failed grande dame or a pitiable monster, in Tom Kalin's overheated, undercooked case study.
Unfortunately, Evans' story took a pitiable turn in 1980, when he was recruited by a disreputable promotion company to participate what would be a Deep Purple reunion in name only, with a group of hired guns (apparently Simper was also approached, but turned down the offer).
