I mean, I like "Mr. Pitiful," "In the Midnight Hour," and "Think" as much as the next soul-music nostalgist, but not when the cast is swarming the aisles of the Palace Theater demanding that we get into the groove of a piece that — those era-defining classics aside — is fairly resistible.
Unite said the 15p per hour pay increase was pitiful and should not distract from "Victorian work practices" in Sports Direct warehouses.
Despite my pitiful "just desserts" finish, I had an amazing 24 hours in Clarksdale, Tunica and Memphis.
From death row, Mr. Hughes sees it differently, as he plays basketball during his hour of recreation every day, eats food he calls "pitiful" and learns about court decisions from a small, black radio.
That is the pitiful equivalent of one incandescent light bulb per person for three hours a day.In the absence of electricity, the usual fallback is paraffin (kerosene).
If his claim of feeling no pain is true, zipping around the country doing performances is surely more fun that working all hours of the day on a construction site for pitiful wages, as he did before.
For a few hours, it's fun to engage in the charade -- however pitiful -- that I am some kind of handyman, but that's enough for me.
With an extraordinarily deep and alien fatigue, blended with an extreme sense of humiliation, and a pitiful type of relief, we stopped after a long day of over ten hours of nerve-racking gambling.
The week before that saw them destroy a pitiful Schalke 5-1 at home, scoring four goals in an ludicrously one-sided opening half hour when they could easily have doubled their tally.
