Sentence examples for pitiful creature from inspiring English sources

Hilditch is a pitiful creature, warped by his upbringing and insulated from society.

Was the audience seeing a miracle of motherly patience or a pitiful creature trying to hatch dead eggs?

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

There are also a disfigured, rather yearning character, called Pitiful Creature, and a fusty academic who breaks in occasionally to comment on the work.

To see the pitiful creature (deftly played by John Zdrojeski) come alive, only to be shunned by its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein Joe Varcaa), is to be moved and saddened.

In the case of a newly rich couple with the husband sleeping around, she applauded the wife for not becoming a "blubbering, feeble, pitiful creature," and, instead, making him sign a contract that will cost him all his assets if he cheats again.

His herd of cattle, once numbering 27, has been reduced to 7 pitiful creatures.

I have had to kill a few rabbits myself; pitiful creatures so horribly afflicted with myxomatosis that I could easily pick them up to end their suffering.

He explains: "These pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find something that all would believe in and worship; what is essential is that all may be together in it.

In a world where we so often judge by appearance, for instance, there is perhaps a virtue in promoting these pitiful creatures that is also consistent with a logo, opening parade and metal tower which promise to make the London games the ugliest in Olympic history.

Shelters screen and get references from anyone adopting a pet to assure that it is a proper situation, but many pet shops sell defective, pitiful creatures bred in puppy mills, shipped on a refrigerated truck across country when they are five weeks old and bought by someone succumbing to the "doggie in the window" impulse buy.