Sentence examples for pitiful disaster from inspiring English sources

Housing there and in Spain remains a pitiful disaster along with mid-teens unemployment.

Tennessee did its part in collapsing last week against Baltimore but that loss was not nearly as pitiful as the Giants' disaster.

Pity for a pitiful club.

We've provided almost a quarter of the aid sent, but compared with the global response to Haiti and other disasters of this kind the reaction to the floods has been "lamentable and pitiful", Clegg replied.

Meanwhile, natural disasters in America don't lead to big public spending increases — look at how pitiful the aid post-Katrina was.

Jan Shaw, Amnesty International UK's refugee expert, said: "The Syrian refugee crisis has been called the most pressing humanitarian disaster of our time, yet the response by the international community has, with very few exceptions, been pitiful.

That's pitiful.

"It's pitiful".

These voices naturally strike tinny, inhuman notes in contrast to the pitiful desperation of the Joads and the matter-of-fact testimony from the people caught up in the tumult of the foreclosure disaster.

Europe, thy name is pitiful.

We were so pitiful".