Sentence examples for pitiful act from inspiring English sources

This is a terrifyingly insecure cultural cringe of an exhibition, a pitiful act of obeisance by the National Gallery to popular culture, contemporary art and anything else it hopes might pull in a few young people.

Reports of mosque attacks are similar to incidents that occurred after the Tube and bus bombings of 7 July 2005 - pitiful acts of racism quite at odds with the general public mood then and now.

The pitiful number of new approved therapeutics would suggest that they actually may turn out fewer.

What a pitiful bit of kismet.

Act weak, pitiful and sad.

Yet Levy, who had dispatched the vice-chairman Paul Kemsley and club secretary John Alexander to Spain to open talks with Ramos in August, has been convinced to act by a pitiful opening to the domestic league campaign.

A few weeks before the Stevenson speech, Nixon offered his own rationalization, in which he said that we were taking our war into Cambodia because the United States could not act "like a pitiful, helpless giant": "My fellow-Americans, we live in an age of anarchy, both abroad and at home.

Act kind of pitiful.

The suicide note of Jude the Obscure's son was impossibly pitiful, not least because his tragic act was borne of good intentions.

Pity for a pitiful club.

Between the rampant hostility outside the house and the tyranny inside, the children act out the paralyzing stress of their situation in the strange and pitiful ways that children do.