Sentence examples for more pitiful from inspiring English sources

In my memory, the thief had become less frightening and more pitiful — panicky, desperate.

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight".

Mr. Khan then directed the way to someone even more pitiful.

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight," Barnes writes.

But a bit more of the raw passion Brockman brings to her Antigone might have made Creon's eventual fall even more pitiful and affecting.

"Dog the Bounty Hunter" finds pathos and slapstick comedy in the hunting down of fugitives who are usually more pitiful than dangerous.

Officially, bilateral trade is worth $2 billion a year (unofficially, a few billion more)—a pitiful tally set against India's booming business with China ($60 billion) or even Africa ($45 billion).

Some 20 years after Roland Emmerich blew up the White House, he's back to wreck more destruction on pitiful humanity.

Hirsute, tattooed, and frequently nude, Arsenault is more playful than pitiful, arranging his naked body on a high-backed chair with the flair of a fashion model or hiding under a blossoming hydrangea bush like an abashed Adam.

A sporting addendum to yesterday's geographic musings: it seems that the New York Islanders, the once-great Stanley Cup team of Bossy and Trottier and Potvin — more recently a pitiful squad playing in a decaying building to a mostly indifferent audience — are moving to Brooklyn and the Barclays Center!

By Adam Gopnik October 24, 2012 A sporting addendum to yesterday's geographic musings: it seems that the New York Islanders, the once-great Stanley Cup team of Bossy and Trottier and Potvin — more recently a pitiful squad playing in a decaying building to a mostly indifferent audience — are moving to Brooklyn and the Barclays Center!