Sentence examples for inducing pity from inspiring English sources

It's like reality TV set in the Roman Coliseum, achieving the convoluted  experience of inducing pity for the animals, outrage against the institution that seems to be mishandling these majestic creatures, all the while stealthily building anticipation for the scenes where we get to see the horror of beast on human attacks.

A damaged boy who can induce pity is gold to him.

Anywhere I do get with girls I would attribute to two things, which are the ability to induce pity in others and fox-like cunning.

The movie's not a downer trying to induce pity and guilt; rather, The True Cost intends to draw attention to the current practices of the fashion industry so that we as creators and clients can bring about positive change.

Mantel shows us her wounds not to induce our pity but to express her rage.

But his skill lies in stripping away the polite pretences of the cannibalistic Harringtons and even in inducing a sense of pity for their misery.

Azucena's degradation induces nausea, but not tragic pity.

And it's a pity that its real point [of inducing weeping] was the one that they had lost.

6 These emotions such as the pity and fear that are normally induced by tragedy have an ethical function, because they authorize and encourage certain actions and prevent others.

For Pakistanis, seeing the great impenetrable nation in such visible distress induces mild amusement and perhaps a stirring of pity.

Other Jacobean dramatic writers became preoccupied with the problem of evil: the plays of John Webster, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and George Chapman induce all the terror of tragedy but little of its pity.