Sentence examples for pitiful circumstances from inspiring English sources
And, like life, commerce goes on, even under the most pitiful circumstances.
Rutebeuf wrote verse in personal, even autobiographical mode (though the personal details are probably fictional) on a variety of subjects: his own pitiful circumstances, the quarrel between the University of Paris and the religious orders, the need to support the Crusades, his reverence for the Virgin, and his disgust at clerical corruption.
During this time, he expanded or entirely reworked Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which is about a girl who "blossoms in a mud-puddle" and becomes a pitiful victim of circumstance.
Consensus was rare, except in one unfortunate circumstance: the others agreed that the wines I brought were pitiful.
By the time that the Supreme Court, a year ago, ordered that the men taken from Adiala jail be brought before it, four had died in unexplained circumstances, and the remaining seven, including Mr ul Haq, were produced in a pitiful state.
Against all this they have cut down the man who a year ago was, next to the president, the leading Republican of the United States, to a pitiful majority of one in his ambition to be elected to the Senate, and that obtained under circumstances not creditable to him.
Europe, thy name is pitiful.
