Their heroines, or anti-heroines, are commonplace, often pitiable creatures whose lives slither easily towards calamity, one bad decision all too often leading to a place of gory no return.
Both these characters, force-marched into maturity by the reckless adults in their lives, were pitiable, but Eisenberg made room to explore their callowness and unpleasantness, too.
Even today it is not known precisely how many children lived in these pitiable conditions – proper records were not kept – but estimates suggest 100,000.
It portrays celebrities as members of an overlord class who "burn you with their radiant smiles" but also as faintly pitiable creatures, jealous of the quiet, grounded lives of ordinary folk.
"As a woman living with a disability I know I am neither brave nor pitiable; I am simply doing my best to live a full life with the hand I have been dealt".
Claire Provost Despite considerable economic growth and increasing self-confidence as a major global player, modern India is a disaster zone in which millions of lives are wrecked by hunger and pitiable investment in health and education services.
Despite considerable economic growth and increasing self-confidence as a major global player, modern India is a disaster zone in which millions of lives are wrecked by hunger and by pitiable investment in health and education services.
Judging by the disconsolate waves that some of these men have given passing reporters in recent days, a gesture hitherto unknown among anybody serving in the security apparatus surrounding Mr. Hussein, they may have lived their last days in anticipation of a pitiable end.
New Orleanians have always resembled New Yorkers; they tend to share the sense that to live anywhere else would lead inevitably to a stultifying and pitiable existence beyond the bounds of understanding.
He ultimately gave the episode an "A" and wrote, "'Musings' is great because it transforms CSM from a living ghost into the walking dead still horrifying, still dangerous, but pitiable just the same".
