Sentence examples for pitiable that from inspiring English sources

She wouldn't let go, tugging me toward the inner depths of her brothel -- but she looked so young and pitiable that I couldn't help thinking that she really wanted me to tug her away.

How pitiable that it is considered courageous, inside the United Nations, which sits in a free country, Switzerland, to say a few words that could upset governments that should be pariahs.

But this is not a lament about a pitiable party that can't put a win together and shouldn't even try.

It's the tendency to be pitiable, and that's weird.

None of that pitiable look-at-me-and-what-I-can-afford madness.

"I find myself once more in that pitiable role of the meliorist," he observed dryly in a 1990 letter to a journalist friend.

An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur — that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals.

As for that pitiable fourth-year grad student in Texas, I hope he gets another chance.

If we are to believe this pretext, which pro-state columnists find convincing, we must draw the pitiable conclusion that the words of a Turkish politician are not to be trusted if he is not in power.

It is how one lives one's life that matters, not the manner of one's death: if one dies at sea in a battle worthy of memory by future generations, or in search of learning, or for one's friends' sake, these are all worthwhile; but if one has spent one's life at sea in search of mercantile profit, that is pitiable (32.31 ff).

The trade-off for a pitiable existence is that you get to research the subject you love, alongside others who feel the same way, and often that's enough.