Sentence examples for piteous from inspiring English sources

Tears and piteous pleas about getting up at 3.30am in Seattle to catch my first flight seemed unlikely to advance my cause.

Anna Maxwell Martin's intriguing Lady Macbeth tries to brazen it out with a show of socially practised brusqueness, until in mad remorse, her piteous cradling of a phantom baby suggests the root of the problem.

Fifty yards from our house is a piteous shrine to 14-year-old Alan Cartwright who was pushed off his bicycle and murdered by another child, with a single stab to the heart.

And we could do nothing to help them; Dunham was crying quietly beside me, and all the men were affected by the piteous cries.

This is the excuse, the crutch, the piteous and finally pathetic defense of Negrophiles unable or willing to face reality.

From beneath the dusty, smoking slabs of collapsed concrete, piteous American voices could be heard, begging for help.

Before Spanx, shapewear was associated with the aging and the piteous (remember Hugh Grant pawing at Renée Zellweger's thickly swaddled nether regions in "Bridget Jones's Diary"?).

Terry is a decent guy with many weaknesses, and, after the crime is committed, Farrell gives him a piteous self-loathing that is very touching.

Over beers at the bar, Michael read aloud one of his new poems — spare, disconcerting lines suffused with a piteous sense of loss: "All my snowy friends / piled up inside my bedroom / extinct and smiling / packing ice beneath / my eyes".

There was a pause, and then my husband burst out in a piteous voice, "Why am I so unfortunate?

Then, as she watches the fire blaze and hears the German's piteous cries, she is moved to such a heightened emotional state that she has what is almost certainly an orgasm: "an increasing rapture laid hold on her.