Sentence examples for pitiful about it from inspiring English sources

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.

Often cast as the "bad cop", playing next to Lancaster's "good cop", the characterisation has not always been accurate: when, during the World Cup warm-up game with France in Paris last month, the team turned in a first-half performance that was just about as pitiful as it gets, it was Lancaster who hit the dressing-room roof.

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.

That Britain is ruled by a Conservative administration that has shifted to David Cameron's right, and that feels rather amused – almost pitiful – about Labour's plight, will all be forgotten.

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's pitiful, and it's going to happen again".

With large majorities of Americans concerned about college costs, student debt, and the still pitiful job market, it certainly seems time for higher education to reinvent itself.

"Being silent is pitiful, it's something I never do.