Sentence examples for pitiable figure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hampson's Faust is a pitiable figure with a weighty tread.

In the other trial, Adam Skelos emerged as a pitiable figure.

But the poignant cast and penetrating richness of his singing made the tyrannical Macbeth seem a haunted, almost pitiable figure.

The Schumacher of Thursday reading his farewell — and thanking especially his wife Corinna — was far from a pitiable figure.

Tall, square-shouldered and bent over with the exhaustion of his curse, he is a hulking and pitiable figure.

On camera, the candidate sometimes cuts a pitiable figure: wandering around his apartment with an old man's walk, slow, head slumped.

The housemates have now essentially become both Big Brother contestants and viewers – making them the most pitiable figures in human history.

Helen is also in pitiable shape, though she does a better job of hiding it.

Apart from pitiable development figures, the country has been suffering from ongoing political instability and internal conflicts.

To his neighbors, Rodney Williams was a pitiable but harmless figure.

It's hard to believe that Geri Halliwell was once a near-icon of feminism, all feisty and kick-ass and cool, when now she's a pitiable gossip rag figure on an endless tack of reinvention.