Sentence examples for pitiful offerings from inspiring English sources

The result, as reported in the Nashville Scene, is an "object lesson in how truly awful it is to live in a town where used bookstores and the pitiful offerings of Books-a-Million are all we have".

As recently as 1993, Sega's 16-bit Genesis system was crushing Nintendo's pitiful offering.

Treasuries are offering pitiful yields and bank money market funds are worse.

Selina strikes a note of defiance at the end of Let Them Call It Jazz, but here, too, the feeling arises that over time she might become just like another Martiniquaise in Rhys's fiction: the pitiful one we witness offering herself up to a stranger in Rhys's 1939 novel, Good Morning, Midnight, "'crying because she was at the end of everything'".

His Tory opponent, in contrast, says it would "not be appropriate" to "try to tackle rents" and is offering only a pitiful 6p-a-week cut in council tax.

Pity for a pitiful club.

That's pitiful.

"It's pitiful".

We were so pitiful".

Shameful and pitiful".

"The material is pitiful.