James L. Dolan, the Cablevision chief executive, received a smattering of boos during his opening remarks, though presumably those had more to do with the recent pitiful play of the New York Knicks (also a Cablevision property) than the overhaul of the space.
The other component to Harden's struggles has been Howard's pitiful play.
Bad set design can make an otherwise good production appear false and a pitiful play can be made all the more horrible by confusing environs.
In the early stages of the tournament, Burkina Faso had surprised Nigeria with a 1-1 drand and then kept on chiseling out results on that pitiful playing field.
A sporting addendum to yesterday's geographic musings: it seems that the New York Islanders, the once-great Stanley Cup team of Bossy and Trottier and Potvin — more recently a pitiful squad playing in a decaying building to a mostly indifferent audience — are moving to Brooklyn and the Barclays Center!
By Adam Gopnik October 24, 2012 A sporting addendum to yesterday's geographic musings: it seems that the New York Islanders, the once-great Stanley Cup team of Bossy and Trottier and Potvin — more recently a pitiful squad playing in a decaying building to a mostly indifferent audience — are moving to Brooklyn and the Barclays Center!
To see the pitiful creature (deftly played by John Zdrojeski) come alive, only to be shunned by its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein Joe Varcaa), is to be moved and saddened.
Ned Beatty's character, Bobby, glances at Lonny and murmurs, "Talk about genetic deficiencies — isn't that pitiful?" But when Drew, played by Ronny Cox, strums a chord on his guitar, Lonny answers it, and soon the two are locked in a gleeful call-and-response, the bluegrass hit "Dueling Banjos".
"Not only has there been political opposition to enacting strong reform in New York State, but regrettably, too many key figures in law enforcement have played the pitiful role of old dogs unwilling to learn new tricks," said Peter J. Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project, a legal clinic based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York,, which prepared the report.
The only violence is the snarl of a mean Doberman and the obsessive need for a sad pitiful train station inspector played with wit and sensitivity by Sacha Baron Cohen.
Two fairly recent developments have compelled Atkinson to play such a pitiful hand.
