Sentence examples for pitiful man from inspiring English sources

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"The poor, pitiful man," Butterfield remembered.

A pitiful man crouches and pounces before a towering showgirl before being swallowed in her voluminous cloak.

As directed by Doug Hughes, the complete lack of sexual tension between Pullman and Stiles renders Carol's accusations hysterical and unfounded, and reduces what could have been a nuanced, credible power struggle to an unfair fight between an inexplicably vindictive she-monster and a pitiful man.

The Israeli police interrogator, Michael Goldman Gilad, who is also now in his 80s, said he was a nebbish - a pitiful man, a nobody.

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Just as the descent of Captain Willard Martin Sheenn) into delirium forms the central thread of Apocalypse Now, by the end of Hearts of Darkness, Coppola has slowly but surely been reduced from Oscar-winning golden boy to wailing, pitiful man-child.

Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies.

So instead I say a few terse lines that try to be friendly but are indeed probably a bit superior -- they do not tell funny anecdotes (I don't want the kinds of people who get in touch with me reading personal anecdotes!) The result has always been pitiful, and I mean pitiful, men getting in touch.

When we talk about refugees, we are typically bombarded with this pitiful image of the poor man who needs our care, but we wanted to focus on the strength of people in this situation not from a perspective of pity.

"When he arrived he hadn't had any sleep for 48 hours and was the most pitiful looking man I ever saw," Clara White told a reporter in 1942 about a St .Petersburg, Florida, man who, after his dog's death, put the animal in his car and drove straight to the cemetery.

After fifty years of indigence in England, Potter, a pitiful old man, returns to Boston on the Fourth of July , 1826 and a parade, passing by Faneuil Hall, nearly runs him over.

Rather than having the supposed murderer Szymon turn up at the hotel conveniently, like some character out of Dostoevsky, I turned him into a pitiful old man on his deathbed and made the two heroines visit him in a hospital.

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