Sentence examples for pitiful past from inspiring English sources

With odds of her winning standing at 9/1, many are optimistic she could redeem the UK's pitiful past record on the Eurovision stage, where Englebert Humperdinck scored only 12 points in 2012 and Bonnie Tyler was placed 19th last year.

Donatello had come under his influence, and carved the Magdalene as a beggar, a pitiful figure whose past decadence is clear in the cadaverous lines of her repentant figure.

In one section a healthy-looking woman walks past two pitiful waifs with apparent indifference, and then she does so again.

Is he satirizing Douglas's pomposity and Ned's pitiful idealization of the past, or, as Michiko Kakutani implies in her savaging Times review of the novel, is he pressed so close to his characters that he can't recognize them for the self-obsessed bloviators they are?

Like the gentleman witnessing Lear's madness, it was a 'sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch / Past speaking of in a king!' " The biographer relays Francis Wyndham's comically majestic picture of Murdoch at her desk: "Like a Henry Moore statue seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal".

Pity for a pitiful club.

A defeat by Liu in the Olympics would leave all of China feeling "regretful and pitiful" for him, but appreciative of his past accomplishments, Zhou said, speaking through an interpreter.

The total raised in voluntary tax contributions for the past tax year was a pitiful $69,000.

An old woman shuffled past, her fingers clenched around the necks of two pitiful chickens.

It was pitiful, in its way, because the girl thought, as had others in the past, that she was really talking to Alice, was friendly with Alice.

This past weekend we continued our merry middle-aged pilgrimage to witness the pitiful White Sox outlast the Minnesota Twins at Chicago's cavernous, corporatized U.S. Cellular Field.