Sentence examples for kind of pity from inspiring English sources
"kind of pity" is correct and usable in written English
You might use it when you are expressing some sympathy for someone. For example, "He was always so cheerful, even when he was facing difficult times, so it's kind of pity that he had to leave us."
First: head-patting condescension, mixed with a kind of pity.
Vadik couldn't help feeling a squeamish kind of pity for him.
"It's a kind of pity that there is not a lot of research on new R.U.T.F.," Lescanne said.
But then his anger dissolves into something even more unbearable: a terrible kind of pity and yearning, a desperate need to soothe Hester's cares, to take her back.
"Our favourite exponent of contemporary outsider art", was how Esquire magazine described him last year, but it is not exactly outsider art (which tends to involve some kind of pity, or condescension, on the part of the viewer).
Was Rupert Murdoch so skilled at a kind of uber-power game that he was attempting to vaporise each inappropriate inquiry into his company; or were we watching a shell-shocked man so incapable of basic discourse that it almost elicited a strange kind of pity?
Frozen in the harsh spotlight, he looked so crazy and old and forlorn and yet residually arrogant that an intense discomfort settled on the room, a discomfort that, in a non-charity situation, might have led to shouted insults or thrown objects but in this case drew a kind of pity-whoop from near the salad bar.
"Really great things happened to me in my life during this period when most people were kind of pitying me," she said of a being single -- a period during which her career took off, she took her dream vacation and her social life became more dynamic than ever.
The simmering adolescent anger cooled, giving way to a kind of bewildered pity.
Warhol focused on stars, Mr. Richter on victims, usually, whom he regarded with a kind of unsentimental pity and morbid curiosity.
No mere vulgar showbiz reminiscence — and that's kind of a pity — Clive Davis's autobiography has the ceremonious heft we associate with presidential memoirs.
