Sentence examples for pitiful reading from inspiring English sources

His letters, mostly unanswered, make pitiful reading.

Mike Kelley is also crucial to the abject turn, with his pitiful stuffed animals and his banner reading "Pants Shitter and Proud".

So instead I say a few terse lines that try to be friendly but are indeed probably a bit superior -- they do not tell funny anecdotes (I don't want the kinds of people who get in touch with me reading personal anecdotes!) The result has always been pitiful, and I mean pitiful, men getting in touch.

"They sure as hell aren't reading you any more," she replied, as pitiful globules of semen dripped from my glans.

Still, the record reads a pitiful three defeats, five goals conceded and none scored.

Page after page, the reader blanches while reading of massacres and counter-massacres, of floggings and rapes, of socket bayonets plunged into pitiful patriots and of competitive hangings and murders.

He finds himself faking a conversation about a book he hasn't read, something with a "pitiful" protagonist.

Most of the anti-American murals around town have been removed, except on the walls surrounding the old United States Embassy compound, and those seem anachronistic and pitiful: "On the day the U.S. will praise us," one reads, "we will mourn".

The report, which you can read here, lists four major findings, each of which with its own pitiful statistics and recommendations that occasionally amount to a complete about-face or overhaul of existing policies.

I go back and read older stuff -- I have all these flowery metaphors, I think I would sometimes write "indeed". It was just pitiful.

"I read it with growing admiration for the author," wrote the playwright Alan Bennett in the London Review of Books, "and, until his pitiful death, mounting impatience with the subject".