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Taking care of your external appearance is important and good to boost your self esteem, but obsessive attention and frantic efforts to "look better" can actually make you like a hypochondriac, neurotic, and miserable; and also look pitiable!
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And when the satyr's feathery garb is cut off, Mr. Kränzle's N looks pitiable in a bloody body suit.
Don't let him/her make you feel pitiable.
Feel the love, pitiable animal kingdom.
None of that pitiable look-at-me-and-what-I-can-afford madness.
But as he looked at his pitiable pregnant wife, he said, "Why not rest awhile?" "What for?" She raised her sweaty face.
At that he looked at me with pitiable hatred: for he was, however false his purpose, truly in kemmer and deeply roused.
She wouldn't let go, tugging me toward the inner depths of her brothel -- but she looked so young and pitiable that I couldn't help thinking that she really wanted me to tug her away.
Upon hearing that we had won, I looked despairingly at the pitiable fools in Trafalgar Square.
It is understandable to feel moved by their pitiable condition.
She noted with bemusement that in Arbus's pictures people who are "pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive" look "cheerful, self-accepting, matter-of-fact".
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