Sentence examples for less pitiful from inspiring English sources
The comment, probably inspired by the Wife of Bath and her glee at wedding, bedding, dominating and surviving five husbands, says: "A woman is less pitiful than a man, more envious than a serpent and more malicious than a tyrant, more deceitful than a devil".
On the other hand, it is what at the time of death departs from the person's limbs and travels to the underworld, where it has a more or less pitiful afterlife as a shade or image of the deceased person.
Nguyen's financial assets the wholesale business, a house in New Orleans make him seem a less pitiful character than the hardscrabble shrimp boat crewmen with no GEDs nor a Wal-Mart nearby to go work at, but in fact he might be worse off.
Yet how could either Lady Warbones, or Miss Lucy Sweetface, or the stranger in the hall, begin to apprehend that dim roiling in the western sky, even now beginning to hush the birdsong in the brambles, and which presaged a turn of Fate that, had they but gained forewarning, might have rendered less the pitiful sorrows soon to befall them?
She comes off as garden-variety petty, less tragic than pitiful.
The clumsy nature of the attacks makes them seem less threatening than pitiful.
The money I was allocated was pitiful – less than I had been given for my film about Britten almost 30 years earlier.
In my memory, the thief had become less frightening and more pitiful — panicky, desperate.
In his last year as England boss, his salary was a pitiful £7,200 – less than some Division 3 managers were earning.
Telling the story of Darth Vader merely made him less terrifying and more pitiful.
While she liked "That's How Strong My Love Is, Chuck Williss' "It's Too Late", "For Your Precious Love" (previously a hit by The Impressions), Sam Cooke's "Nothing Can Change This Love", and Cropper's/Redding's "Mr. Pitiful", she was less enthusiastic about "Chained and Bound", "I Want to Thank You" and "A Woman, a Lover, a Friend", which mimic aspects of Cooke's sound.
