Sentence examples for pitiful bunch from inspiring English sources

With Orwell a keen follower of Dickens's habit of making characters' internal weaknesses manifest in their appearance, they're a pitiful bunch in physical terms, too.

Besides, he says, Germans would be a pitiful bunch if their self-confidence rested on the D-mark alone.If these sound strange words from a supposedly ceremonial head of state, housed in a Berlin chateau by the Spree, it is because Mr Herzog cannot disguise his affection for Germany's post-1945 consensus.

Or there are moments when he views himself and his fellow triathletes as they might appear to an outsider, as "a bunch of pitiful dolphins washed up on the shore, waiting for the tide to come in".

Those do-gooders are all a bunch a pitiful losers, every last one of them.

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.

Pity for a pitiful club.

"It's pitiful".

That's pitiful.

Europe, thy name is pitiful.

We were so pitiful".

Shameful and pitiful".