Sentence examples for pitiable expression from inspiring English sources

And he cites the reported effects of the monkeys' being exposed to strong beer — "cross and dismal... aching heads... a most pitiable expression" — as suggestive evidence for the evolutionary affinity between humans and primates.

One should not fail to notice the almost benevolent nuances present in all the words with which the Greek nobility distinguishes the lower people from itself; how a kind of pity, consideration, and forbearance continually intervenes and sweetens, until ultimately almost all the words applied to the common man survive as expressions meaning "unhappy", "pitiable".

People who have worked with him remark on his trademark self-deprecation, though they say it's less a pitiable crisis of confidence than an earnest expression of concern that he ace the job entrusted to him.

The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable.

Promiscuity, probably the most common of vilified behaviors, is regularly regarded not as an individual's command of their own sexual agency but instead an expression of their lack of self respect or sense of self worth, as something pitiable and damning.

Pitiable or potent?

We are pitiable.

The pitiable African woman.

Can anything be more pitiable?

She is pitiable and vulnerable.

But many have a pitiable quality for their neglect.