Sentence examples for pitiful figure from inspiring English sources

Granted, only 65% of Indian adults can read a pitiful figure.

"In that sense, people would say he is a tragic figure; other people would say he is a pitiful figure.

The rate of recruitment of three superintendent applicants out of 252 is a pitiful figure when the minority population of London is currently at 30% and rising.

Donatello had come under his influence, and carved the Magdalene as a beggar, a pitiful figure whose past decadence is clear in the cadaverous lines of her repentant figure.

It boasts a guitar riff that somehow manages to sound simultaneously laid-back and propulsive, an unforgettable melody, and a brilliant lyric that can't decide whether its macho protagonist is a strutting hero or a pitiful figure.

Writing Hallelujah turned Cohen into a pitiful figure who, he'd later reveal, ended up slumped on the floor of New York's Royalton hotel wearing only his pants as he scribbled in notebooks and banged his head on the carpet.

We close down with pitiful figures every night.

There are currently only four women in the cabinet and seven women in the shadow cabinet: pitiful figures, both.

He is a pitiful figures and the recipient begins to console about his job after he advises him just what to do about the summons.

Where some might see only a pitiful, shambling figure, condemned by his own racism, Cameron responded, as a Conservative should, to someone who wanted to "get on in life".

Tom Gold repeated his fine performance as the pitiful male figure in George Balanchine's "Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir" on Friday night at the New York State Theater but Maria Kowroski was the new femme fatale who devoured him in both a passionate metaphor and a billowing cape.