Sentence examples for pitiable as from inspiring English sources

He finds such people pitiable as well as culpable, because they were at once grotesquely innocent and guilty.

She noted with bemusement that in Arbus's pictures people who are "pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive" look "cheerful, self-accepting, matter-of-fact".

Her works make us question not just her motives for looking at what the critic Susan Sontag – with typical hauteur – called "people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive", but also our own.

Weak and dying, Davros was as pitiable as he's ever been.

No one is as pitiable as Miss Flite; as obsequious as Guppy; as sanctimonious as Pecksniff.

Their characters, pitiable as they may be, remain at a distance.

A Kama Sutra cavalcade is led off by the coupling of a brother and sister, whose love affair is the main source of the play's pitiable calamities (as well as its eternal literary infamy).

He wrote, "Andrew Lincoln delivered these lines of pitiable understanding as well as anyone could".

Sorry, what?" Naomie Harris is less pitiable but just as endearing as Clara, the Jamaican girl smothered by her mother, a fanatic Jehovah's Witness.

They are too interesting to be pitiable, just as Bobby Cannavale, as the predatory supervisor at the meat-packing plant, is more than just the sum of his ruthless, despicable actions.

And Ms. D'Orleans Juste was a figure of lyrical, pitiable compliance as Desdemona.