Sentence examples for is a pitiable from inspiring English sources

There are no plans to increase the carer's allowance, which, if you're eligible for it, is a pitiable £62.70 a week.

Mr. Hampson's Faust is a pitiable figure with a weighty tread.

The victim of the execution is a pitiable figure, bloodied and helpless to resist his captors – and yet, 2000 years later, his followers still call him the King of Kings.

As explored by Schmidt, the Carpenters' story is a pitiable variation on an old theme: that of a '50s American family with its head in the sand, unable to grasp how anything could have gone so wrong.

In her adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility" (which has a double Heroine), Emma Thompson does what she can to spruce up Colonel Brandon — the part is given to Alan Rickman — but the novel makes it plain that he is a pitiable old wreck of thirty-five.

The sight of the American parent trying to convince a child that not every restaurant serves hamburger is a pitiable one.

To his neighbors, Rodney Williams was a pitiable but harmless figure.

This morning the village was a pitiable scene.

"It was a pitiable fight," Mr. Weitz said, taking up the story in a coffee shop.

It was a pitiable effort by any standard, especially by a player of his glorified stature.

This probably sounds grim and makes me appear to be a pitiable character.