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".
Possibly, yet based on talking with others, I fear my "mind's eye" is a pitiful organ, too: the pictures it generates are dim and colourless, while theirs are sharp and bright.
The Child Protection Agencies: a large number of organizations get sucked into using children to raise funds: making them talk about the abuse they survived in front of a camera, having their picture in a pitiful situation published for everyone to see, allowing non-professional visitors into their centers (like orphanage tourism).
The great Cubist pictures were knocked down, under government auspices, at pitiful prices.
Look at the pictures and the intel that we got from the pitiful, defeated, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
"After looking at these pictures with all their clear, hideous and beautiful detail, their open insanity and pitiful grandeur, compare this vision of a continent as it is, not as it might be or as it was, with any other coherent vision that we have had since the war," he wrote.
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".
