Sentence examples for pitiful of from inspiring English sources

Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, is among the most pitiful of African capitals.

"I want him to look like himself," she cries, in the most pitiful of pleas.

Perhaps most pitiful of all is the abject performance of the sitting president, Mohamed Waheed, a former UN bureaucrat who picked up just 5% of the vote in the first round.

Our deaths would free Paris") and a staunch feminist, who welcomed even prostitutes into the corps of women nursing injured fighters ("Who has more right than these women, the most pitiful of the old order's victims, to give their lives for the new?").

And in return, he will give me absurd wealth and power over the weak and pitiful of the world.

Proof of the pitiful decline of robustness the world over as chronicled in t he current press.

By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 23 Proof of the pitiful decline of robustness the world over as chronicled in t he current press.

That there were 51 scrums - 19 of which had to be re-set - tells the tale of a pitiful plethora of errors.

The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 23 Proof of the pitiful decline of robustness the world over as chronicled in t he current press.

One immediate focus is on the pitiful story of one of Africa's greatest animals - in fact, its second largest mammal - the northern white rhino.

The rising cost of driving and the "pitiful" state of Britain's roads should prompt a review of the way motorists are taxed, the RAC has said.