Sentence examples for parents pity from inspiring English sources

There's a stereotype of the bohemian on food stamps, who, at once shiftless and privileged, lives off the State and his parents' pity.

Adding "I apologize" can make you seem more sincere and pitying, thus making your parent pity on you too.

The magazine does work hard to establish us-and-them battle lines, with sentences like this one from the cover feature: "Married couples, not unlike new parents, feel pity for anybody who doesn't share their ideas of normalcy".

Asher's parents took pity on him and offered him the guest room at the top of the house as a pied-à-terre.

Say that nobody is perfect, and besides, I don't really like my counselor (or I don't like __).Most of the time parents do pity you and pull you out.

Each generation looks back at its parents' youth with pity and envy: people were so naïve back then, and life was so easy.

Your parents may feel pity on you.

It's just a pity more parents can't.

My parents made gestures at pity, and my older sister offered to get me a job at the motel where she worked as a chambermaid.

It was no fun to face complaints, disapproval and pity from parents who seemed to have done rather better than me.

They are telling the stories of parents looking for your pity.