Sentence examples for pitiful manner from inspiring English sources
You can believe in "The Process" of the 76ers all you want but rooting for Romania will be done in a pitiful manner: you're the type of fan who wants to see everyone win at least once.
Her execution was botched at the hands of 'a wretched and blundering youth... who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner'.
The sweet young things lived in a dormitory, sort of a Wild West sorority house, while the rugged yet gentle giants who had imported them cut trees by day and made pitiful attempts at table manners by night.
He did hang out with and cultivate mobsters, real killers, though more in a semi-hostile, semi-affectionate fraternal manner than with the pitiful, feudal devotion pictured in "The Godfather".
It's pitiful that Republicans are nearly unanimous in fighting any manner of real reform and hypocritically denouncing "back-room dealing" for the N.R.A. Lacking the courage to dismiss the N.R.A. gamesmanship, Congress must still protect voters by mandating transparency in time for the next election.
Now he's won the Pulitzer for "The Little Match Girl Passion," a work commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, in which the pitiful Hans Christian Andersen story is musically set forth in the manner of Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
And, in her next children's-books column, she, in turn, vindicated him, lamenting the pitiful state of a literature "careful never to approach the child except in a childlike manner.
Europe, thy name is pitiful.
