Sentence examples for pitiful death from inspiring English sources
They both jumped out, desperate to save the camera film, and watched as the canoe's aluminum frame gave up the ghost and crumpled with a pitiful death rattle.
"I read it with growing admiration for the author," wrote the playwright Alan Bennett in the London Review of Books, "and, until his pitiful death, mounting impatience with the subject".
Slowing down and redirecting will not make you less fierce but it just might keep you from dying a frantic, painful and pitiful death amongst the mini blinds.
In the course of an impassioned and highly engaged life he tries many, before being finally and wholly ravaged by madness and dying a pitiful early death in an insane asylum.
Lahr deals with Williams's sexuality, his (many) neuroses and dramatic successes, as well as with his eventual decline and pitiful, lonely death.
I was not going to resign myself to being a pitiful cripple waiting for death.
That said, there's something pitiful about feeling nostalgic over the death of a favourite shop.
Todd's across-the-street neighbor, Hermie, has lost his own dad to suicide and is trying on the role of "pitiful youth on the cusp obsessed with death".
Punchdrunk's recent Masque of the Red Death was OK as an installation but pitiful in its acting and narrative mutilations.
