Sentence examples for pitiful it from inspiring English sources

Yet the European contribution is so pitiful it has placed the very survival of Nato in doubt.

Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, called it "exasperating for anybody look at this from any vantage point," and Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, said of the overall lack of spending: "It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing.

"Being silent is pitiful, it's something I never do.

It is an age-inappropriate activity (scornful description of how pitiful it would be to see an older man wearing the wrap— kanga or kitenge that boys often wear after traditional circumcision).

28 When compared with the £57 billion 29 (not including considerable local government expenditure) to be spent on education in the UK this fiscal year, this investment seems pitiful, it may not suit many children's physical activity preferences, and does not help secondary school children, who suffer the same inactivity-related problems.

Often cast as the "bad cop", playing next to Lancaster's "good cop", the characterisation has not always been accurate: when, during the World Cup warm-up game with France in Paris last month, the team turned in a first-half performance that was just about as pitiful as it gets, it was Lancaster who hit the dressing-room roof.

It's pitiful, and it's going to happen again".

It's both comical and somewhat pitiful, but it also feels like an authorial declaration because it dovetails with Mr. Russell's belief in joyous, transporting cinema.

Heading in the same direction as the pitiful wind, it seemed that hardly anything moved.

She runs into this man and the suitcase falls open, revealing a pitiful wardrobe — it's all neat and well-mended but sad.

As the segment was shown in a local shop, the proprietor furiously declared, "This is why Pakistan is in the pitiful state it is in".