Sentence examples for met with pity from inspiring English sources

At cocktail parties, business conferences, even in my own office, my mutterings that these wild valuations couldn't stand, and that e-commerce was headed for a crash, were met with pity and shaking heads.

Now I find myself met with something like pity, tinged with curiosity and commiseration.

News of the baby's ordeal was met with horror and pity by bloggers on Chinese sites.

The contrast with Theresa May, who dined alone after her nervy plea for help was met with embarrassment and pity by the other 27 leaders, was stark.

The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to Dotage, and entirely lose their Understandings; these meet with more Pity and Assistance, because they want many bad Qualities which abound in others.

When my friend Patricia pointed out that it wasn't such a full audience, and we might move back a few rows, my answer that I needed to stay was met with a combination of pity and mystification: "You want to have the real cheap-seats experience?

I taught myself to meet misogyny with pity and distain rather than anger.

A man in the crowd says he is a doctor, but he is met with an absolutely withering look of pity and contempt from the guard, who then repeats his question more loudly to make sure everyone has properly heard his question, presumably including the guy who had just identified himself as a doctor -- who happens to be black.

It is a pity Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers had not been briefed by Mr. Early before he met with Prof. Cornel West in October for their now-famous private chat.

I met with people.

I met with her.