Sentence examples for pitiful figures from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

At that time, Mr Shapps said the pitiful figure was explained by the fact that Labour's National Affordable Housing Programme was winding down and the coalition government's shiny new Affordable Homes Programme had yet to begin.

From that point on, wrote biographer Dahl, Quisling had to tread a "fine line between truth and falsehood," and emerged from it "an elusive and often pitiful figure".