Sentence examples for offer pity from inspiring English sources
This position bucks the Platonic-Stoic tradition in which, as Nietzsche put it, "to offer pity is as good as to offer contempt".
She mischievously offered pity to whoever sat next to her.
He offered pity rather than hatred — pity in order to avoid hatred — to the racists who, he firmly believed, despised in blacks the very things they feared in themselves.
Driss, however, doesn't offer him pity; he treats him as an equal, rather than an employer or, worse, a cripple in need of pity.
Sinclair more faithfully and enigmatically offers, " Here pity lives when it is quite dead".
Paul especially was not pleased with the pity offer to join the earlier event, telling CNN on Monday, "I won't participate in anything that's not the first tier".
He offers lucidity without pity, but without rancour either.
She offered love without pity, a chance to race and win, and to win just by racing.
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But let's just say that many a perfect stranger have out of sheer pity offered to hold my child, help me out to my car, or buy me a drink after witnessing how friggin hard it is.
Is it necessary that wars always be fought by people who can feel pity and offer clemency, and yet who can also be cruel beyond all tactical requirements?
