Sentence examples for invoke pity from inspiring English sources
I know you're here to seek diversion in the staging of my death and that it's futile to invoke pity, tenderness, or compassion.
I say this not to invoke pity.
2. Return to the lemonade stand with a kid (yours or your friends) and claim the lemonade stand was the kid's idea to invoke pity from the cop.
But they also disclose a personality that is more arresting than engaging, invoking pity rather than affection.
Invoking pity and compassion for "the poor Indian"—a purely fictional construct British missionaries used the Black Legend of cruelties perpetrated by Spanish conquistadors to contrast their own projects with those of Catholic missionaries, whose methods were often brutal and deceitful.
As Belgium has known for eight years, the manner of the deaths of An and Eefje invoked more than pity: they were buried alive.
Apparently it was his meekness, and the pity it invoked in female patrons, that earned Gerald these initial tense moments of awkward contact.
They'd rather invoke strong, covetous desire for their latest (partially) home-made superstar than last year's pity.
When his icy gloom and patented self-pity found themselves matched by his poetic wit, however, Nemerov could invoke feelings of modern desolation with a panache that rivaled anything out of Robert Lowell.
By invoking Melville, Gurnah opens a little inquest into the nature of pity itself.
