Sentence examples for pitiful like from inspiring English sources

Decades later, though, she has degenerated into a fat slattern in teetery high heels; when she attempts to wangle favors from her onetime lover, Rita is by turns disgusting and pitiful — like almost anyone who has wanted something very badly.

Swamped in baggy combats and a hoody, topped with that iconic birds' nest, chubby fingers dawdling along the frets, oversized shoes kicking the flange pedal, wonky lips wailing into the abyss – another way of describing Britain's most larcenous venue (£4.50 for an alcopop!) – he's appealingly pitiful, like a forlorn mutt on a Dogs Trust ad.

"We always looked so pitiful, like victims," she told the LA Times.

Something pitiful like "Hi," will not get you noticed.

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11 the Middle East has erupted, driven by a meme — one of those notions that spreads across the new media ecosystem at lightning speed once a spark has been provided, in this case a pitiful porn-like trailer for a movie in which the Prophet Muhammad appears as a highly sexed buffoon.

Mr. Pitiful really likes his Roomba.

If I am ever feeling pitiful, rollin' like a dump truck, hating, and weepy, I know that this little divine intervention will bless me with its wonders!

Then, there was the completely pitiful renditions, like episodes of Castle and the absolutely sad and pathetic State Of Affairs with Katherine Heigl- which should really be called SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS- they even went as far as to name Heigl's character Charlie!

Stop treating the Paralympics like pitiful seconds and more like the first-rate competition it is.

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.

He was a pitiful adventurer, nothing like his popular image.