Sentence examples for in pitiable condition from inspiring English sources

Among other catastrophic aspects of post-quake Haiti, roads in the capital city and beyond are in pitiable condition.

Others remain in Afghan prisons, many of them in pitiable conditions, crammed into dark underground cells with buckets for sanitation, no medical care and scraps for food.

Helen is also in pitiable shape, though she does a better job of hiding it.

Years of putting off maintenance have left the 84,000 miles of roads traversing New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island and Westchester County in pitiable shape.

Even today it is not known precisely how many children lived in these pitiable conditions – proper records were not kept – but estimates suggest 100,000.

Sivaji, who is a software engineer is frustrated with the corruption in India which is shown in the scene where he watches the pitiable condition of poor people stating that: "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer".

After all, there is no more pitiable condition than the demented patient in the grip of endless terrors.

As his command of the language returned, so, it seemed, did his awareness of his pitiable condition.

It is understandable to feel moved by their pitiable condition.

Ziya Paşa (died 1880), the translator of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile (which became a popular textbook for 19th-century Muslim intellectuals), was among the first to write in a less traditional idiom and to complain in his poetry just as Ḥālī was to do in India a few years later about the pitiable conditions of Muslims under the victorious Christians.

And when that was cleared away, it was left in pitiable desuetude.