Making over 200 appearances for Liverpool and winning an FA Cup, League Cup and eight England caps would amount to a lovely career for most players, but it was a pitiably small return for Jones' talent.
Teachers' salaries are still pitiably low, as Rio de Janeiro's teachers remarked as they went on strike this week, leaving 1m children without classes.But at least one battle is being won.
"L'Atmos" is still open, but pitiably diminished; its supply of French food and wines having been withdrawn with the French peacekeepers who provided them.In this section So long, good luck To the district born Bad-mouthing Water in them hills A fault in his stars?
The region was pitiably poor 40 years ago, when Torremolinos's first hotel went up.
Quasimodo, title character, the deaf, pitiably ugly protagonist of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831).
But am I clambering pitiably on to a celeb bandwagon, or does the ubiquity of OCD bespeak something deeper?
The Government's offer of £50m to the flood victims is pitiably small.
He wrote: "The reasons given are pitiably sad; the most distressing case this, surely, of its kind and one that may wake the national mind to saner methods of curing a terrible disease than by criminal legislation".
This is pitiably absurd, and unforgivable, but also unique in Lawrence's life.
Unenthused visitors to the show may find themselves, as I did, refreshed in spirit by the simple elegance and honestly avaricious passion of the Vuitton boutique — helping the rich shed their burden of excess capital at a rate pitiably slower than what the art market enables, but in there pitching.
Ian McShane's Swearengen is a murderer, a monster, a clever beast you cannot help being drawn to; he wears a pin-striped suit over long johns, which emphasizes his hugely thick neck and his large head — he's an unstoppable wall of man coming at you, episode after episode (except when he is pitiably felled, temporarily, by a kidney stone).
