Sentence examples for matter of pity from inspiring English sources

To illustrate what is meant: on a naïve understanding of catharsis which may be correct despite its naïveté the audience (the subject) undergoes catharsis by having the emotions (the matter) of pity and fear it experiences purged (the nature).

"When the honourable gentleman for Chesterfield said that now English crowds take St George's flag rather than the Union Jack, to me that's a matter of pity, of shame, that we have given up viewing ourselves as one United Kingdom, whether we are supporting England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland," he said.

"It was not a matter of pity," says Dinn Mann, senior vice president and editor of MLB Advanced Media.

An expression of pity, no matter how compassionately given, acts like a tail hook to that forward motion of self possession, yanking it back, tethering it, right as kid is feeling the urge to soar.

Now some people may say, "What solution will be what works?" It's a matter of stopping all the pity and unnecessary emotions.

Any tendencies toward melodrama and self-pity were trumped by a matter-of-fact depiction of the exhilaration and the cost of living dangerously.

But Kalanithi writes very well, in a plain and matter-of-fact way, without a trace of self-pity, and you are immediately gripped and carried along.

There is no self-pity in her voice; she is matter-of-fact: you live and you die, get over it, she seems to be saying.

There was little self-pity in the songs, just the matter-of-fact tenacity that Mr. Mellencamp has always prized in his songs, old or new.

He was strict in matters of law ("No pity in judgment!"—i.e., compassion is irrelevant in establishing what the law is or means), but he opposed the death penalty.

3 - The Singularity happens, and the computers decide to keep us around out of pity. 4 - The Singularity happens, and within 20-30 years humans simply cease to matter.