Sentence examples for like pity from inspiring English sources

It can sound like pity.

"First down, Broncos" sounded less like an announcement and more like pity — "Please, just give Peyton something.

Youssef quickly grows to detest his wife's devotion, which suddenly seems to him like pity.

But at this year's dinner, on Saturday night, President Obama's admiration was mixed with what sounded like pity.

Finally, I slid off my coat, but the gesture must have seemed like pity, because she pulled on hers.

You would have said, if you didn't know better, that it regarded you with something like pity.

Always driven, she says: "I don't like seeing pity in other people's faces.

"She didn't like self-pity.

A comment he wrote on March 10 , 1960 reads, "I have often said that for anyone who likes self pity — homosexuality is a grand source . . .

I liked the pity trips to the mall and TGI Fridays my family took me on when my father went through his bone marrow transplant.

Also out are italics Scalia uses to imagine how some future judge might edit a decision he doesn't like — a slight pity in the case of Windsor, as it excludes such phrases as "enjoying constitutionally protected sexual relationships".