Sentence examples for pitiable scene from inspiring English sources
This morning the village was a pitiable scene.
"I trained my binoculars and saw a pitiable scene," Captain LaRue remembered.
And the rawness of Joplin's singing is missing, until Ms. Sims goes all out in the final scene, a pitiable ruin who can only grab for her flowers and kick viciously at the world around her.
Sivaji, who is a software engineer is frustrated with the corruption in India which is shown in the scene where he watches the pitiable condition of poor people stating that: "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer".
When the Celebrant breaks down and goes through a theatrically modern version of a bel canto mad scene, Mr. Sykes was a pitiable and touching hero.
Tolkien witnessed pitiable waste of life in the mud, which shaped his famous Dead Marshes scene, where bodies of warriors appear like ghosts in the marsh pools.
Late in the new book "Game Change," a chronicle of the 2008 presidential campaign that has much of Washington cringing and the rest of the country gasping, comes a scene that may not match others for pure titillation but has an eerie, pitiable resonance all its own.
The pitiable African woman.
Sometimes, ignoring the scene, he leaps to the side of his bird and launches an attack on its detractors, as with the barn owl: "Since the dawn of history, owls have been the pitiable victims of ignorance and superstition.
