Sentence examples for pitiful memory of from inspiring English sources

He has a rather pitiful memory of flying back to New York from the Toronto Film Festival, hauling the reels of "Mr. Jealousy," which had failed to impress a distributor.

In Memory Of".

Childhood Memory of Racism.

Reduced memory of.

Memories of his father's pitiful condition and, while on holidays spent near a barracks, the sight of endless drilling and marching put him off the army.

In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, García Márquez allowed his old Charon to forget, and the resulting memories are not melancholy, not even sad, but merely pitiful and disappointing.

Memories of governesses.

Memories of a photographer.

Your memories of Palmyra.

Memories of Omar Sharif.

He shares his wilful ignoring of reality ("A man way out in there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine") with the 1920s hucksters, but his story is post-1929, scrabbling for pitiful chances of work so as not to lose his home and self-respect, and hung up on the memory – or dream?