Sentence examples for in the pitiful from inspiring English sources

As the segment was shown in a local shop, the proprietor furiously declared, "This is why Pakistan is in the pitiful state it is in".

Nev, we realise, has become an unexamined reader of surfaces, a budding middle-aged reactionary who finds himself increasingly out of place in democratic South Africa, averse to "poking around in the pitiful contents of strangers' lives".

But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that when one's wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right.

We ordinary Americans believe in your abilities and, like you, we are thinking in terms of months and years, not in the pitiful language of hourly sound bites or weekly deadlines.

I blame Hollywood for casting me as the nagging mother-in-law, the pitiful cougar, or the complaining woman in the wheelchair.

Now he's won the Pulitzer for "The Little Match Girl Passion," a work commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, in which the pitiful Hans Christian Andersen story is musically set forth in the manner of Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

Written in seven days, in reaction to the "pitiful sight" of London's wartime devastation it played 1,998 performances, one of the longest runs in London theatre history Coward's brilliant ghost play explores the connections between memory, mourning, and the erotic; it's a comic demonstration in which the dead's aggression toward the living confronts the aggression of the living toward the dead.

Economists and politicians have puzzled over the struggles workers have experienced in recent decades: the pitiful rate of growth in wages, rising inequality, and the growing flow of national income to profits and rents rather than pay cheques.

Finally, Chin gave me a pitiful deer-in-the-headlights stare and said, "What have you done to me?" I gave him a goodbye and told him he should do the same to his job.  .

One day in August, Mona got a letter from an agency in Boston with the pitiful name the Home for Little Wanderers.

These voices naturally strike tinny, inhuman notes in contrast to the pitiful desperation of the Joads and the matter-of-fact testimony from the people caught up in the tumult of the foreclosure disaster.