Sentence examples for pitiable to from inspiring English sources

(It is pitiable to hear the grandiose discussions of artists' work by the least talented of our contemporaries).

Comprehended at a glance, it lets us get right down to being crazy about ourselves, in a bubble of participatory narcissism that it will be pitiable to have missed.

All three of the film's load-bearing scenes — a drunken dinner-party gaffe, an excruciating karaoke-bar meltdown and a disgustingly satisfying supermarket ambush — advance its heroine's journey from pitiable to repulsive to gosh-darn admirable.

"It was pitiable to see these poor people struggling with their adversity, and to think of the cheerless night they must spend amid their sodden surroundings," the Eastern Daily Press wrote.

The ice has now been removed and the bath refilled, as it was pitiable to see the birds coming again and again for that sip of water that is as necessary to them as food.

I had yet to meet a woman who did not feel, in some buried and resentful way – or quite explicitly, as my mother had – that it was pitiable to exist as a woman, without a man.

After I made several pitiable attempts to break free, it became clear that in order to give up smoking, I was going to have to give up being such a smart aleck.

And Egan's unhinged singer spends his days fishing in the East River alongside a group of derelicts — a pitiable checkpoint to Led Zeppelin's misadventures — while his former bandmate, having surrendered to a life within the music industry's corporate boardrooms, flourishes.

It is a truly pitiable spectacle to see so many frightened flatulent hogs dashing fruitlessly about, begging for the keepers to come and clean out their feeding troughs and to administer medications to solve their digestive crisis.

His pitiable attempts to conduct private experiments are the most moving parts of the book.

Before the first pitch of a pitiable loss to Atlanta on April 18, "Our Team.