In a white minivan, a guide puts a napkin with "Media" scribbled on it under a wiper blade, a pitiful heads-up to rebels in besieged hamlets.
Rooney clipped a corner into the near post, where Gerrard made a pitiful attempt to head clear and Enrique let Hernandez dart in front of him and flip into the net.
"This is pitiful," said David Brown, the head of the investment protection bureau of the state attorney general's office, who has been overseeing the state's mutual funds investigations.
"Pretty pitiful," Steyer observed, shaking his head.
He asked me faintly what had happened, and in troops' German I told him "Drei caput – others Kamerad," at which he dropped back his head with a pitiful air of resignation.
Trump will still walk away from this thing a winner by his lights if Clinton wins – not leader of anything, with a reputation left in pitiful dirty tatters, but as head demagogue.
It's pitiful, really, and as the movie heads toward its emphatically nontriumphant finish, it is impossible not to realize with anguish that all that came before — the pain, the suffering and the compromised ideals — has led to this.
Its pitiful hero, Akaky Akakievich, presides at the head of a ragged group of fictional copy-scribes that includes Melville's Bartleby, Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet and Kafka's clerks of the court.
You don't shorn your head, instead you honor your remaining strands, letting them remain on the top of your head in all of their pitiful glory.
Chris Cox, the former congressman and purported free market true believer who George W. Bush had chosen to head the SEC, issued a truly pitiful announcement.
