Sentence examples for pities from inspiring English sources

It presumes that we're both consumed by disability and nobly fight it – yet still pities us.

Certainly he pities himself.

Germont pities her, acknowledging the supreme sacrifice she has made and urging her to take courage.

Stevens has trained himself to absorb insults without retaliation, and, while the modern reader probably pities Stevens's inoffensiveness a little more than he admires it, the trait makes it easy for a reader to see Stevens as a protective figure, even a parental one.

Valerie pities Lois as middle-aged and rejected.

"How do you think you can best care for your mother?" "She pities me!

Your mother says it's a harmless fungal infection, and she pities you less for it than she should.

More's the pity.

The pity is that the current government hasn't done more in this area.

Later, when she sent me the bill for her lingerie, which she claimed had ripped when she fell from the chair, I began feeling "pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow" for myself, especially when my wife found the Visa bill and was like, "Who the hell is Edna Sapperton?" Why is pathos useful?

What a pity modern political parties do not apply the same criteria.