Sentence examples for note of pity from inspiring English sources

The note of pity in his voice was as damning as the jibe itself.

Only in the final tale, about a lonely multimillionaire's desire for his sturdy cleaning ladies, does a note of pity creep in.

Not long ago, Wilson spoke to the BBC about working with a class of eight-year-olds in Manhattan, and one could detect a note of pity: "The children went completely crazy, bashing things up.

The note of pity, the hushed tone of concern, the carefully sculpted facial expressions of anguish — I became so sick of these that, in response to strangers' questions about the contours of my family or the number of my siblings, I stopped mentioning my brother at all.

There comes, however, even through the brisk tone, an autumnal note of self-pity.

For Eleanor, election to the White House "meant the end of any personal life of my own" — a note of self-pity that F.D.R. mocked with an irritated quatrain: Did my Eleanor relate All the sad and awful fate Of the miserable lives Lived by Washington wives?

The glorious note of self-pity is sounded at the very first with Oliver's fantasy of what would happen if he committed suicide – an orgy of candle-lit vigils and sobbing teenage girls confiding their adoration for Oliver to local news teams.

We might forgive Benjamin those notes of self-pity, certainly after reading in Howard Eiland and Michael W Jennings's vast, heroically researched and yet frustrating critical biography about the circumstances in which the bittersweet memoir was written.

But it finds an interesting comic register in Margaret Thatcher, a note of distress and self-pity, loneliness and anxiety.

But at the risk now of muddling the issue and introducing a note of shrill male self-pity … how about men's self-image?

But Beware of Pity ends with a note of almost bitter disillusionment.