Sentence examples for pitiful as from inspiring English sources

You have to laugh, I guess, and yet there is something pitiful as well as preposterous in the American response.

More recently, each half of the sketch has been equally hapless and pitiful, as with Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Vladimir and Estragon or "Withnail and I".

The naïve stalker in "Virgo" who alters horoscopes to manipulate his lover's moods is funny and pitiful, as is the narrator of the zombie apocalypse romp, "Don't Eat Cat," who rightfully declaims: "Sure, the world seems crazy now.

Buy.com's list is pitiful, as is Radio Shack's.

Paine's closing years, pitiful as they were, contained one triumph.

But Lincoln in 1837 was not quite as pitiful as the story makes him sound.

You would be surprised at how many folks don't want you to succeed and will give you wrong-headed advice just to make sure that you are in just as pitiful shape as they are (see box below).

By the time she returned to it, only the frame remained, as pitiful and useless as a single shoe.

This is a pitiful creature, as unloved by her writer-director creator as by the genius actress who plays her.

I'm a pitiful failure as a Renaissance man".

Given the context of Ludogorets' pitiful fragility, as Wenger acknowledged, Arsenal could brush off the odd pang of anxiety endured by their own backline.