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I grew up in Rutland, which also suffered a series of somewhat pitiable earthquakes; where garden furniture struggled to topple over, bird wings remained decidedly unruffled and the most frightening and dramatic report involved a glass wobbling a bit on a kitchen table.
Attachment to a different conception of the good life became by default a pitiable recoiling into crude medievalism.
Still, the Magna Carta was stamped in a muddy field, the first Swiss confederates met in another, the Chinese Communist Party's inaugural convention took place on a paddle boat, Indonesia's pancasila was first declared in Sukarno's washyard, and Thomas Jefferson drafted America's Declaration of Independence in all sorts of similarly pitiable environments.
If they do, it can develop into Johne's (pronounced Yo-nees), an incurable wasting disease which can reduce beasts to pitiable , diarrhoea-racked skeletal creatures in their last days.MAP is extremely common: the last big survey, back in 1996, found that one in five dairy herds had the disease, with that proportion doubling among big herds with more than 300 cows.
He had become less an elder statesman than an old rogue: pitiable , lovable and never dull.
The sandwich generation is getting stale.But, Bagehot submits, the most pitiable lot of all those most worthy of fellow passengers' sympathy on the plane, though they are unlikely to get it may be professional parents in their late 30s.
The most pitiable is Snow's new girlfriend, Mary, who has been the victim of awful abuse.
Too often directors turn Paulina into a hectoring harridan; Ms Cusack instead is steely but compassionate, and her manifest devotion to Leontes helps make him all the more pitiable and lovable.The play's mood lightens when the action moves to Bohemia, which Mr Mendes depicts as a fantasia in the American south.
The boy is pitiable ; but she knows, for example, that slowly eating a cupcake, or imagining himself to be a fish, are as present to him as grief.
But what made him so magnetic was that his knowing air was often mixed with the appearance of pitiable unhealthiness and discomfort.
Life: a sort of disgrace".Ms Hardwick argues with any notion of Melville as pitiable , but she does concede some truth in Lawrence's desperate summary.
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The adjective "pitiable " primarily functions to describe nouns, indicating they evoke or deserve pity . Ludwig examples show it modifying nouns describing conditions, people, and situations that elicit compassion. The adjective signifies a state or quality that is regrettable and induces sympathy.
Expression frequency: Very common
