Sentence examples for more pitiful than from inspiring English sources

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

As a general rule, there are few spectacles more pitiful than the modern male – especially the wealthy, powerful modern male – harrumphing at the gains made by feminism.

We have been told about Don Draper, too, though in the most recent season of "Mad Men," his charm has begun to seem shopworn and sad, and his misbehavior more pitiful than demonic.

"There's nothing more pitiful than an adult trying to be cool in front of a kid," Mr. Weisman said, "so we're thinking older contemporaries will be more successful teachers".

Each depressing character seemed more pitiful than the next.

Why is my job so much more pitiful than others?

"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.

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

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.