Sentence examples for pitiful about from inspiring English sources

There was something pitiful about her — such desperation.

That said, there's something pitiful about feeling nostalgic over the death of a favourite shop.

There is something incredibly pitiful about her aloneness, which is accentuated by the sterility of her work environment, with its queasy lighting, metal surfaces and mechanical droning.

I've always thought that Theon was driven by jealousy and inadequacy and there was something horribly pitiful about his admission that all Robb had to do "was just be".

It was the poetry that drew me in – it was Owen, it was 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', it was when I learnt that he had died the week before Armistice Day and that his mother got the telegram on Armistice Day; there was something so pitiful about it.

That's why the third film starts with a bunch of pitiful about-to-be-hanged islanders being told they no longer have any constitutional rights.

It was, well, a loser, struggling to impress a very insignificant new acquaintance with pitiful boasts about his masculinity.

"Not being able to have a war on its own is the most pitiful thing about Japan," he has said.Few accuse Mr Hashimoto of lacking ambition.

One of the most pitiful things about the political class, and the economists who whisper certainties in their ear, is their distance from the actual experience of work.

Salih Kapusuz, the deputy leader of the ruling party, which has its roots in Islam, said Benedict's remarks were either the result of "pitiful ignorance" about Islam and its Prophet or a deliberate distortion of the truth.

I spread my sleeping bag under a rock overhang and passed most of my time swatting mosquitoes and filling my journal with increasingly pitiful complaints about how bored and, especially, how hungry I was.