Sentence examples for on pity from inspiring English sources
And then they would say, "How are you, really?," with a sort of sanctimony bordering on pity.
Yet again, the UK will have to rely on pity voting from the Irish, which is always a doomed hope.
When I asked why she would endure such a process so young, Diana looked at me with a perplexity that bordered on pity.
The incursion of punk poet John Cooper Clarke on Pity the Plight, when the two brutalised men-children finally meet, is a masterstroke.
Ms. Parsons invests Alexandra with such natural intelligence and strength of purpose — notwithstanding those memory lapses — that our affection for her rests not on pity, but true sympathy for her plight.
With this stress on pity and on compassion, Lessing interpreted Aristotle in terms of Christian middle-class virtues and established Shakespeare as the model for German dramatists to follow.
They set out with little medical guidance but one defining motto: "You cannot train on self-pity".
Today, they know, they are looked on with pity.
Venue: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Carnage by candlelight: Michael Longhurst on 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Getting old was respectable, and living in denial was looked on with pity.
