Sentence examples for measures of pity from inspiring English sources

Then she adds, with equal measures of pity and cruelty: "I should know.

There was a measure of pity among some Gazans.

Not love, not admiration, not even fear — but a certain measure of pity.

The emotions of the family are Englander's chief concern here, and Kaddish, the character with the clever name, becomes a man for whom we feel a full measure of pity.

She is not simply bitter but is struggling, like so many people in this gripping collection and in life, to accept the coexistence, in varying measure, of pity and sympathy, of hatred and love.

The difficulty even of naming the genre suggests its inherent problem: the evocation of pity or guilt or a measure of both from the middle-class art-house audience it plays for.

"Women come to you out of pity".

The looks of pity will vanish.

"The reaction: 'Oh.' And this look of pity".

But Perowne knows himself to be incapable of pity.

Not out of pity with the victims and the bereaved.